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  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

critical functions are part of the competitive and organizational strategy of any team or organization. Adopting value creation as the scorekeeping measure does nothing to relieve us of the responsibility to do all these things and more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 05 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

competition for eyeballs increasing from the Internet, television, and video games, publishers know they have a tough road ahead, regardless of how digital readers change their business model. “The situation is fraught with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation
  • June–July 2013
  • Article

Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices

By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Deszo and Minyuan Zhao
The international business (IB) literature has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Global Strategy
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  • 2015
  • Report

Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States
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  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

competitive dynamics in their space. However, managers outside the tech sector will still appreciate the general management lessons throughout the book. Q: What is strategic integrity, and why is it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • October 2011 (Revised May 2015)
  • Case

The American Repertory Theater

By: Rohit Deshpande, Allen S. Grossman and Ryan Johnson
When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) first started in 2008, she attracted media coverage around an aesthetic that aimed to give the audience more ownership over the theater experience, excited theatergoers by... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Arts; Business Model; Leading Change; Media; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; North and Central America
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  • 2012
  • Article

Organization Design for Business Ecosystems

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Business Ecosystems; Distributed Innovation; Problem Solving; Property Rights; Organization Design; Networks; Integration; Competition; Organizational Design; Innovation and Management
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  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

potentially worth tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue for the league.” Unique aspects of the AFL, whose strict policies aim to keep player rosters evenly matched—made it a natural setting to examine this question. The AFL emphasizes View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including a failure to understand the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

optimality of capital control taxation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52787 Summer 2017 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

While gains were focused at the executive and investor levels, these cuts fostered a transactional relationship between businesses and their workers. So, it should be a shock to no one that in recent years, the power dynamic has switched... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 19 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

the competitive advantage gained by how a product "speaks" to a customer is clear. Just think about how Apple began its resurrection in 1998 with the unthinkable design of computers made of translucent blue, orange, and pink... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

  Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically inefficient if they consistently generate fewer returns to investors than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

be our people. It will be our humanity that drives our creativity, powers our competitive spirit, and keeps us out in front.” Technology changes the nature of work But at the same meeting, McMillon also acknowledged how technology changes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

sales, profitability, and assets. Here we analyze firm characteristics shown by industry before and after liberalization and investigate how industrial concentration, the number, and size of firms of the ownership type evolved between 1988 and 2005. We find great View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

the other, creating a dynamic in which their interactions with members who focus on the other identity create challenges and dominate their program experience, to the detriment of a focus on the organization and its goals. This suggests... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

developed, and the opportunities the company sees for improving it. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413088-PDF-ENG Research In Motion: The Mobile OS Platform War MacCormack, Alan, Brian Dunn, and Chris F. KemererHarvard Business School Case 613-001 The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

investment. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/ships_qje_2014.pdf   Working Papers Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— Architectural capabilities are an important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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