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  • 19 Oct 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business

  • Web

Private Capital Project

the strategic use of private capital is inextricably tied to Harvard Business School. The first modern PE fund, American Research and Development, was designed and led by Professor Georges Doriot in the years after World War II at HBS.... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked, and that only by conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

U.S. Competitiveness

failing to deliver results for the average American. A Five Forces analysis explores the nature of competition in the politics industry, identifies the root causes of poor political outcomes for customers (citizens), and provides a View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

demand about as much as one's own recent payout experience. Third, the spillover effect decays as time passes while the effect of one's own experience does not. We discuss implications of this analysis for commercial sustainability of... View Details
  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a strategic perspective, the (A) case provides brief histories of the two companies; traces the global confectionery industry, focusing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600 firms in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking selling investments with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

drives auditor lobbying. Broadly, our paper offers the first large-sample descriptive analysis of the role of Big N auditors in the accounting standard-setting process. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545378 Cashing Out:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Professor Mihir Desai Build an intuitive understanding of financial principles to better communicate with key stakeholders, drive business performance, and grow your career. 6 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Enroll by March 13 $1,850 Certificate New View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

  Working PapersIn Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene Abstract Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

exaggerated emphasis on sustainable competitive advantage has drawn attention away from the fact that strategy must be a dynamic tool for guiding the development of a company over time. "Strategy has become more about formulation than implementation, and more about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2005
  • Article

Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Supplement

PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion

By: Ayelet Israeli and Fabrizio Fantini
PittaRosso, a traditional Italian shoe retailer, is implementing an AI system to provide pricing and promotion recommendations. The system allows them to implement changes that would affect both the top of funnel and bottom of funnel activities for the company: once... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Pricing Decisions; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Promotion; Promotions; Online Marketing; Data-driven Decision-making; Data-driven Management; Retail; Retail Analytics; Price; Advertising Campaigns; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Digital Marketing; Budgets and Budgeting; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Transformation; Decision Making; Retail Industry; Italy
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  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

strategy problems arose from limited or faulty data, or poor analysis of the industry and competitors. To say it differently, I thought the problem was a failure to understand competition. This surely does happen. But the more I have... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

depend on the circumstances and, if so, how?” Drawing on 138 interviews with FBI officials and an analysis of 45 congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, the paper details the ways in which design change and identity change interacted... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Profiles - MBA

unprecedented scale of collaboration. Whether I was working on the Data Infrastructure production team building entity recognition pipelines or with the Natural Language Processing research team developing a sentiment analysis technique,... View Details
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