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- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
kayaking was a wonderful example of how "user innovations" evolve and eventually become commercial products. Hienerth is a professor at Vienna University of Economics... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
good customers up to a value of 40 percent of what the customer is expected to spend, the "theoretical win." (Casinos, as you might expect, are experts at predicting what their favored customers will spend... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
of the organization. But external information should be reported less often, so that we ease the pressure to meet short-term targets. Internally, we need more disclosure. The board must be wired into all... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17
Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
and situates land policy in the larger context of China’s reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
Information for Euro Elektrische Keramische Vorrichtungen (Euro EKV), GmbH Harvard Business School Exercise 908-033 In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach between American-style capitalism and justice and increased alienation View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicted relations between business and government. The book represents a unique comparative study of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
"name your own price" devices, permission marketing, group buying, price comparison engines, car purchase Web sites, mass customization, etc. It is still largely a new way of thinking whose domain and modalities remain to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Article
Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement
Among historians, Alfred Chandler's influence is by far the greatest, as he has affected economics, sociology, and business administration. Chandler never took short cuts, never stinted, and never published until he was satisfied that he had done his very best.... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Success; Books; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Economic Growth; Ethics; Knowledge Sharing; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Fair Value Accounting
McCraw, T. K. "Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement." Business History Review 82, no. 4 (Winter 2008).
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
almost double. These results suggest a role of brokers in fostering predatory behavior and raise a red flag for regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
object, or in addressing a situation under examination. To "thin slice" is to be able to decide quickly based on, among other things, a small sample of information and the suppression View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
future. A Lucrative Business Patent trolling can be a lucrative undertaking because of the ambiguous nature of intellectual property. "A patent troll is a firm that sues opportunistically in hopes that... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Fisher and Gregory Downey. Duke University Press, 2006 Abstract With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies should compete "on the basis... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- June 1995
- Case
Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A1): Getting to Know Each Other
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
In its second year of operation, the joint venture between Northern Telecom (Nortel) of Canada and Tong Guang Electronics of China to manufacture telecommunications equipment in China has hit a crisis. The Chinese partner has asked Northern Telecom to replace its... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Joint Ventures; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Leadership; Telecommunications Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Canada; China
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A1): Getting to Know Each Other." Harvard Business School Case 395-081, June 1995.