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  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

protectionist reversals together mean that few companies can afford to remain focused on their domestic markets. Managers responsible for marketing in a multinational or global enterprise must design appropriate marketing programs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

being brought on by the board at Liz Claiborne as vice chairman and COO in 1994. Founded in 1976 by fashion designer Liz Claiborne, her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and two other partners, the tiny shop had rocketed to success in its first... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

deployment, and management of multiple brands as a coordinated portfolio of meaning-based assets that address the needs of diverse customers in a marketplace and maximize return while minimizing risk. It specifies the optimal portfolio of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

Could you describe some of these entrepreneurial efforts? A: There is a lot of talk—both in this book and elsewhere—about the massive potential consumer market at the base of the economic pyramid. However, for a poor consumer, participating in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

functional administrators. Beginning in 1912, Harvard offered a required second-year course in "business policy," which was designed to integrate the knowledge gained in functional areas like accounting, operations, and finance,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

All For One

Creative abrasion was what Hill had witnessed at Pixar—amplifying differences to create a marketplace of ideas through discourse and debate. After all, creative organizations are all about celebrating the opinions of people whose thinking... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

older age. The design of purchased products varies strongly with household characteristics, suggesting the importance of heterogeneity in preferences and financial circumstances. A simple portfolio choice model shows that household loss... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Underlying this change is a story of foresighted strategy and disciplined execution—of connecting knowing to doing. In strategic terms, the IBM transformation illustrates the ideas behind dynamic capabilities, showing how the company has been able to sense changes in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

managers' social initiatives are akin to using a dishwasher to wash clothes. Corporations can contribute best to society if they do what they do best: employ a workforce to provide goods and services to the marketplace and, in so doing,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

feedback reports, personalized worksheets and teaching support material. Its founders, however, view their B2B strategy as a seeding strategy to eventually form a B2C education marketplace where they can collaborate with other education... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

uses of tax revenues. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50428 Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment By: Edelman, Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

do exactly what they're told and disregard every other consideration. While a human would have understood that the sites' designers wanted to maximize quality as measured by clicks, the algorithms maximized clicks at the expense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

New Ventures New Gains

arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting academic credit for their efforts),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

faster in sequential auctions conducted with a standard second price auction mechanism than with a clamped second price auction mechanism. We conclude that while it is important for mechanism designers to think more about creating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

activities. Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Periodical:The Accounting Review (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the accounting and management literature on influence-gathering, underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in explaining how functional experts may compete in the intraorganizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

capture value from intellectual property (IP). We define what it means for a system to be "IP-modular," and illustrate the application of this concept in a number of practical situations. From the examples, we derive a comprehensive framework that can be used... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

World Class Learning

holds the "monopoly position" in the world marketplace it once enjoyed. "Students come here to learn, but they also have a responsibility to teach," he observes. "They have been admitted to HBS on the basis of their unique experiences -... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey