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- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
facilities are more lenient when their organizational scope includes products and services, like selling cars, where enticing customer loyalty can enhance profits. On the other hand, compared with... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
Fashionable Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 209-012 Roberto Charvel is a young MBA graduate making his first personal real estate investment in his native Mexico City. Charvel is planning to purchase and renovate a nine-unit apartment building. Is the market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
New World are becoming much more knowledgeable about wines. At the same time, I think that New World wineries in countries such as Australia have learned to sell to consumers in the U.S. much more effectively than French vineyards, for... View Details
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1815370 Strategy as Innovation: Emergent Goal Formation in a Nascent Industry Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy formation and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common organizational identity that strikes a balance between the logics they combine. Our evidence further suggests that the crucial early levers for developing such an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Cost-Accounting/9780132109178.page Mixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
from the list as "too sick to transplant," Roth says. The system is rife with trouble. First of all, "there aren't enough deceased donors," Roth says. Second, while healthy people are able to live with a single kidney—and therefore able to donate... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
organizational culture, alignment, leadership style/fit, and change management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406111 The Board of Directors at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
and then carefully reviews the various issues associated with the project. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708022 Comcast New England: A Journey of Organizational Transformation Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
this market at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) must look beyond just selling products—they must find ways to create social and economic value, according to the editors of a new volume, Business Solutions for the Global Poor. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
common goal via information-sharing, joint decision-making, and coordination of activities. In contrast to prior work, we distinguish forms of collaboration by three organizational goals—unit management, routine production, and process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
Moderna to be the leading electronic retailer in 20 countries in and around Central and Eastern Europe, evolving an unusual multi-channel strategy, organizational structure, and IT systems. Serious conflicts cause Cesko to question his... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With the new vision setting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
What if a bedrock method that investors have relied on for decades to find cheap-but-promising stocks to buy low and sell high no longer works well? The book-to-market ratio has been used since at least the Great Depression to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
modules in conjunction with the firm's organizational boundaries and property rights. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2512209 Markets with Price Coherence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—In markets with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne