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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that, for certain parameters, the model can explain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
technical and management team members. Now running desperately low on cash, Perlman had to contend with many potential deal partners, including VCs, angels, and industrial partners (as potential sources of cash); consumer electronics... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
to transform relationships in the value net in advantageous ways. Ford carefully fosters competition among its suppliers and manufacturers critical components in-house to ensure that the company does not become too reliant on a single View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
the book is also a contribution to thinking about competitiveness in general. In one part of the book, you and your coauthors write: "What really ails Japan has to do with the nation's deeply ingrained attitudes toward competition." What do you think is the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
commitments to diversity as seriously as our obligations to our customers and shareholders." In accepting Levi Strauss's award, Haas noted that the company "has always tried to be a source of positive change in the communities in which we... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
the situation where waste becomes a source of profit, our research shows that it is almost never optimal to maintain the same operating regime as under the old paradigm where waste was a cost burden and merely convert the existing waste... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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systemic changes to market capitalism are likely to both demand and cause systemic political change as well. Course Content and Objectives Capitalism today is under attack, criticized from many quarters as being the source of societal... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
particular activity from it and is not able to switch quickly to alternative sources of supply, then the counterpart company gets powerful levers of influence. By threatening to exit the relationship, the supplier may then renegotiate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
net importer of capital during the period 1870 to 1915, and firms were competing to attract shareholders or bondholders. After 1915, things changed rather rapidly. In a couple of decades the main source of capital was no longer the stock... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
are not just leveraging NVIDIA's products; they are also leveraging those of TSMC. This "serial leveraging" enabled by firms such as NVIDIA that are both niche players (focused experts in a domain) and keystones (platform providers) is a critical View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
for a long time, but we need to do more. Intuition would tell us that would be the easiest way to do it, because you have a concentrated source of the molecules you're trying to gather. DM: But not all carbon dioxide can be easily... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
reward. “For any good merchant, the world is a constant source of fascination,” says Steuben’s Haupt. “It’s fascinating to take it all in — politics, the economy, popular culture — and figure out how it translates into what people will be... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge, and expertise — the emerging... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
your brain regular “free play” time, however, it will be a source of both stress-relief and insight. What you need: Fortunately, mental downtime is best facilitated by simple chores or activities that have to be done anyway—tasks that... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. F. Warren McFarlan: Donations matter more than ever This is the time when tangible support really matters as the funding sources are drying up for so many social enterprises. Your... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-017 Singapore Airlines: Premium Goes Multi-Brand Singapore Airlines had long been considered the gold standard for its innovative customer service. However, the company was faced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
source of much stress because they almost always have implications that ripple throughout the film and force multiple changes, as we just saw. In that postmortem, one employee recalled that John Lasseter, director of the film and a... View Details