Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,129) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,129) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 15 of 1,129 Results →
  • June 2009 (Revised February 2010)
  • Case

Cirque du Soleil -- The High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Maxime Aucoin
The case describes the history and business model of Cirque du Soleil (CdS). The case allows for a rich discussion and analysis of Cirque du Soleil's business model with an emphasis on how it interacts with that of MGM Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Investment; Profit; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Related
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

and boot it up and all of a sudden it works. It's anything but that. Q: In your preface, you explain that there has been less progress in the strategy field understanding the interaction between economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media

      Luis M. Viceira

      Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

      Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
      • Research Summary

      Managing Networked Businesses

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making

      By: Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
      Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Strategy; Balance and Stability
      Related
      • Program

      Changing the Game

      maximum results for your side Build advantage through better decision-making Recognize and overcome obstacles to rational decision-making Craft competitive and cooperative business strategies Predict the outcomes of strategic View Details

        Anthony Mayo

        Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS).  He currently teaches and serves as the course head for... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; airline; education industry; nonprofit industry; publishing industry; service industry
        • November 2021
        • Article

        Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products

        By: Itay P. Fainmesser, Dominique Olié Lauga and Elie Ofek
        We study how user-generated content (UGC) about new products impacts a firm's advertising and pricing decisions and the effect on profits and market dynamics. We construct a two-period model where consumers value quality and are heterogeneous in their taste for the new... View Details
        Keywords: Online Reviews; Product Ratings; Social Networks; Word Of Mouth; Pricing; User-generated Content; Advertising; Product Marketing; Price; Consumer Behavior; Product Positioning; Social Media
        Related
        • September 2012
        • Article

        Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention

        By: Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike

        Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.

        Purpose: To test whether a two-phase point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job... View Details

        Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Cost
        Related
        • 2007
        • Working Paper

        Exclusivity and Control

        By: Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee
        We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries, and show that whether or not a piece of content... View Details
        Keywords: Price; Revenue; Governance Controls; Digital Platforms; Competition
        Related
        • 30 Jun 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        Rethinking Retirement Planning

        into an IRA) to determine and implement a dynamically optimized portfolio strategy that maximizes the chance of achieving your desired retirement income goal. Over the years, that managed portfolio adjusts for factors such as increases or... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
        • November 2022
        • Article

        A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups

        By: Anjali M. Bhatt, Amir Goldberg and Sameer B. Srivastava
        When the social boundaries between groups are breached, the tendency for people to erect and maintain symbolic boundaries intensifies. Drawing on extant perspectives on boundary maintenance, we distinguish between two strategies that people pursue in maintaining... View Details
        Keywords: Culture; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Symbolic Boundaries; Organizations; Boundaries; Social Psychology; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture
        Related
        • February 2009 (Revised September 2011)
        • Case

        Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big?

        By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
        Big Spaceship, a digital marketing agency, faced a rather big challenge: How to scale the distinctive culture that was essential to its competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
        Related
        • Program

        Senior Executive Program—Africa

        to lead effectively and help your organization achieve ambitious goals. Design an effective strategy for business growth in an African context—within your country or across borders Differentiate your offerings and deliver more value to... View Details
        • 12 Jan 2016
        • First Look

        January 12, 2016

        mediators generate greater willingness to reach agreements between adversaries (Experiment 1). Consequently, negotiators interacting with hostile mediators are better able to reach agreements in incentive-compatible negotiations than... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • May 2011 (Revised March 2013)
        • Supplement

        Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (B)

        By: Heidi K. Gardner and Kerry Herman
        CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design and roll-out of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service... View Details
        Keywords: Globalization; Executive Compensation; Management; Organizational Culture; Performance; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Corporate Strategy; System
        Related
        • January 1985 (Revised March 2003)
        • Case

        Conex do Brasil

        By: Christopher A. Bartlett and John Young
        Describes interactions between Brazilian local, Latin American regional, and USA headquarters staff during the three years after establishing a manufacturing subsidiary in Sao Paulo. In a highly protected national environment, a market entry plan is developed to meet... View Details
        Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Resignation and Termination; Goals and Objectives; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Performance Expectations; Opportunities; Corporate Strategy; Latin America; United States; Brazil
        Related
        • 06 Oct 2010
        • Research & Ideas

        John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

        stories, about which most people do not know the details, can be lethal. "What about the Teledix project [which no one has ever heard of] and the competitive strategy we have for the TX line of products [a View Details
        Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
        • 11 Feb 2021
        • Blog Post

        Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

        powerful, fundamental leadership strategy is being largely overlooked. It is, in fact, the most innately human one: Be kind. According to a recent Gallup survey, less than half of employees (45 percent) feel strongly that their employer... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries