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  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

new distribution methods, rising costs of production in China, and changing customer behavior. The company lacked a clear strategy and suffered from organizational misalignment. Rick Woldenberg, the former... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2005
  • Article

Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

organizational mechanisms can help: guardrails that protect the weaker of the two goals, dynamic decision-making that treats high-level goals as sacrosanct but tactical decisions as provisional, and leaders dedicated to “both/and”... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

none of the five measures identifies firms that behave as if they were constrained: public firms classified as constrained have no trouble raising debt when their demand for debt increases, are unaffected by changes in the supply of bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a sexy new View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 22 Nov 2017
  • News

How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team

Scott, I want to talk about something that you mentioned earlier about mind, body, and soul and how that's sort of like an organizational value for you guys. Can you talk specifics? How do you instill that? Does that mean retreats, does... View Details
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

allow executives to make investments. Turkey’s example provides a richer view: Yes, the change to a military regime undermines social capital and the rule of law. But, at the same time, the disruption is an opportunity for outsiders who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

changing environment with the growing acceptance of online retailing that empowered customers by providing greater price transparency and more options. Marketing channels and communication touch points continued to shift. Home Depot's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

On a Sound Track

through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

be effective.” Gandhi: “I find myself referencing lessons from my time at HBS almost every day, and sharing them with my audiences across the globe. I love the lesson from negotiations about defining value in different ways, or from LEAD (Leadership and View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

fundamentally change the trajectory of a broken system. The bundled payment model, in contrast, triggers competition between providers to create value where it matters—at the individual patient level—and puts health care on the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

"the right environment" to promote accountability and head off future disasters. The corporate leaders we have interviewed say that culture isn't something you "fix." Rather cultural change is what you get after you've... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them to identify and exploit new business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

sides of the aisle. As a doctoral student at Harvard he completed all his MBA coursework and went on to earn a master's in sociology and a PhD in organizational behavior. Now he teaches in the MBA and doctoral programs and knows the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

development and policy review, Andy's expertise in operations and event planning, Brook’s expertise in strategic planning and recruitment, and Alicia's expertise in student affairs and change management. We currently have a director of... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

around 45 to 50 per head and lunches for half that. D'O not only is filled to capacity year-round, but there's an 18-month waiting list to dine there. Understandably, this piqued the interest of a veteran organizational strategy scholar.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive landscape with its superior pricing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

report's status meant it had not driven some of the organizational change it could have. Could Aegon benefit from publishing its integrated report as the official regulatory document? How could Aegon create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

commercial implementations of these practices and then identify their effects on competition. I conclude that Google's tying tactics are suspect under antitrust law. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/google-tying-2014-10-26.pdf November 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne