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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
expand on her ideas detailed in Blockbusters. Book Excerpt Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment Colin Durrant Read An Excerpt Sean Silverthorne: What is a blockbuster strategy? Anita Elberse: I... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
the case also provides detail on salesforce's 1-1-1 business model, whereby the company contributes 1% of product, 1% of equity, and 1% of employee hours back to the communities it serves. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
city, state and federal level, and explores the role of economic and cluster performance through 2005. Detailed historical economic and social data allows for an evaluation of policy results. The case finishes with Mayor Michael Bloomberg... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
"stub"—essentially a brief starting point for others to build on the concept. McAfee's article detailed how so-called Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, and group messaging, employed in a business setting, could encourage more... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
R&D-intensive firms react to negative shocks to their existing products? We explore this question using detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as an exogenous and idiosyncratic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Xu Abstract—We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
asteroid miner. Such visions are clearly not going to become reality in the near future. But detailed roadmaps to them are being produced, and recent progress in the required technologies has been dramatic. If such space-economy visions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
customized web sites for overseas markets? How would she maintain the detail and attention she had put into so many aspects of the company as Nasty Gal grew? As Amoruso's time was limited and management resources were already spread thin... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
procuring an asset or resource at the lowest price, the other requires leveraging the unique skills and capabilities of partners to jointly solve problems. Applying the same organizational methods to both sets of activities ignores the fact that they have different... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
guarantees, to define and limit them. That’s the purpose of this whole proposal, not to put systemic firms at a competitive disadvantage but rather to prevent them from imposing undue costs on the rest of the financial system.” Devil’s in the View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
employees were overwhelmingly white.) Then there are the stories. Although few women working in the field will offer details of personal encounters with sexism and sexual harassment, they hear them frequently. In the past year, they’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
record of geological formations penetrated during drilling that includes technical details of the operation. Mud Logger: On call 24/7 to analyze rock cuttings from a well that is being drilled. Pay Zone: The stratum of rock in which oil... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
adjustments should she make to lead remotely, and what tweaks (if any) should be made to her Miami-based management team? The case details the numerous challenges Swan initially faced in launching Nickelodeon Latin America, from winning... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
less of a factor, and 30 percent of the trees would be protected in the really common ecosystems with high commercial importance. Facilitators for forestry and the environmentalists quickly headed off-site for a private conversation. After several hours of working out... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
opposed. Which path should ZappRx take? The case is a window into the early go-to-market and business model decisions that an entrepreneur must make, in this case in the face of pushback from her own management team. The case also provides a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
and illustrates, via a detailed description of the successful strategic alliance between Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Quintiles company how the creation of a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard helps align the separate interests of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
his parlor where he has arrayed aspects of the subject. In those early years the reporters' perspective was "come with me and get to know this subject." They included wonderful details that today would not be included for fear... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
designed as modular systems. Finally, it analyzes in detail the strategy of capturing value by maintaining exclusive control of an essential module in an open system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-040.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Case 112-025 The case details the conflict between Mike Mayo, an influential banking analyst, and Citigroup about what Mayo considers aggressive accounting policies. Mike Mayo questions Citigroup's lack of a valuation allowance against... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
case offers a detailed analysis of Bocconi's transformational journey and illustrates the challenges of changing the mindset of a large portion of the faculty. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne