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  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

incomplete-contracts model in which vertical integration raises output at the expense of lower private benefits. A key implication is that higher prices should result in more integration, since the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

numerical tests, sales forecasts from our model are more accurate than forecasts from time-series models that ignore inventory and price as well as forecasts from financial analysts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-056.pdf International Financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

work just as I did. We traded suggestions, job leads, complaints, and plenty of jokes as we worked together to get everyone hired. Everyone in that group (30+ classmates) found work by the end of 2020. My career coach Martha from the HBS Career and Professional... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

vertical production and financial linkages with parents exhibited greater resilience. Finally, in contrast to the crisis period, the effect of foreign ownership and linkages on establishment performance was insignificant in non-crisis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

Hansen was looking to add new verticals to the portfolio, but he also saw opportunities to drive growth in Cantel’s core businesses, both at home and internationally. Over two decades, the company had delivered consistent organic growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

managers responsible for stewarding brands. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138786837/ April 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

during the MBA program. Giovanni Estrella (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? Jacksonville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Senior Quality Engineer for the largest vertically View Details
  • Web

Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

corporate advantage statement. 3. Scope: Businesses and Portfolio Transformation Defining the boundaries of the firm - the limit to its scope - is critical to crafting the corporate portfolio. At the extreme, this determines which businesses to enter and exit, as well... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

was a vertically integrated food company with a management system that allowed it to innovate and grow systematically. With sales of $2 billion in 2016, the firm not only produced flour, vegetable oil, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

Abstract—What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper shows that prices can affect integration.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A) Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

polyglot country. He raised $1 million, primarily from American investors he knew personally. In March 2011, he opened a small clinic (two chairs) in Delhi to serve as a pilot project. He set out to vertically View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

involved, for example, in a corporate program in one region of China where we work to encourage children to go to school-a campaign that also subsidizes the cost of books and transportation." As part of her commitment to quality, Yang has also overseen Esquel's... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

expand its role as a parts supplier into a discerning acquirer of distressed companies in the U.S. While it saw acquisition as an exciting means for growth, company strategy at its Hangzhou, China headquarters also included vertical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

quite high at the time, thus providing a justification for the vertical integration of large organizations) set limits on behaviors that we refer to today as partnering, the forming of alliances, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Batteries Included

math ourselves. Once we realized that the math supported a battery electric shipping concept, we also realized that the only way to make this a reality was to vertically integrate and build our own batteries... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Water Transportation; Transportation
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

transparent. Clean Water Contestants DetoXyFiRishon Benjamin, MBA 2022We aim to provide everyone with access to clean drinking water by commercializing low-cost, natural, comprehensive water filtration devices. Ocean CycleRobert Goodwin, GMP 2007OceanCycle works with... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace