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  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

high. But when meeting customer demand is bad for society at large, then competition has a flip side," says Victor Bennett, an assistant professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, who cowrote the paper with Lamar Pierce of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

became instruments of liberty; economic ideas once marshaled to the cause of imperialism were transformed into a political economy of independence in former colonies, a political economy anchored in the essential necessity of encouraging... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

of corporations. The sixth section of the chapter summarizes accounts that aim to specify standards for MNCs without having to take a position on the purpose of the corporation or the moral agency of corporations. August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

  Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

synchronicity with market and industry returns. We find that firms voluntarily disclosing more sustainability information, identified as material by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), have lower stock price... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

U.S. newspaper industry that others did not. The question facing Media General's CEO Marshall Morton was whether to accept the offer or not. As the head of a highly leveraged company whose revenues had... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

intra-firm spillovers (internal agglomeration economies) and geographically bounded inter-firm spillovers (external agglomeration economies) on firms' location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database and the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

scream of a brave new world and traveling salesmen hawking IPOs instead of snake oil. (The connection, of course, may not be that distant.) As on any good frontier, there are not a lot of rules or marshals in town, so justice is rough and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

I've begun to study Latin America. "I've written a series of papers on how industry structure changes following liberalization. Going forward I'm doing a series of cases and starting some research on high-tech View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

explores the role of economic and cluster performance. Detailed historical economic and social data allow for an evaluation of policy results. The case finishes highlighting the main economic challenges the city was facing in 2012.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

begun to explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mtoffel/publications/King_Toffel_2009.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

resource endowment explanation. The paper argues that the ecotourism industry was a co-creation of the public, private, and tertiary sectors. While the role of the government and conservation NGOs is acknowledged in the existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

Casals, 129-150. Papers d'Economia Industrial. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010 Abstract The chapter provides an overview of the recent literature discussing the pros and cons of cluster policy. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

that existing stores must participate in normal industry growth while the new stores experience targeted revenue growth. The corporate scorecard also measures the amount of cash flow generated and invested. The customer synergy comes from... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

unavailable at this time. Opening Platforms: When, How and Why? Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Publication:Chap. 6 in Platforms, Markets and Innovation, edited by Annabelle Gawer. Cheltenham, UK and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

results. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713537-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-014 Sample6: Innovating to Make Food Safer Tim Curran, CEO of Sample6, a start-up biotechnology company developing a novel food safety diagnostics platform, must decide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

Retailing, supply chain experts Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman explain how to use analytics to better manage your inventory for faster turns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies of retailing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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