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- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
into online payments. PayPal, owned by eBay, has targeted online merchants outside eBay's auction community for its next wave of expansion. Google represents a potential threat to PayPal's "off eBay" strategy, as do incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Group (CDG) is a leading business processes outsourcing company based in Beijing, China. Roc Yang, chairman of CDG, had to confront a dilemma when he discovered that one of his senior managers gave a gift to a potential client in an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
the potential retaliatory measures of the stalwarts of the industry. And with their cash from shedding the non-core assets, South African firms had begun themselves to look for new opportunities. Q: How is it to do business in South... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
through which frontline staff can share and learn new ideas, especially for those who feel safe to speak up and believe that new ideas are not tested frequently enough. Practice Implications: The contest’s potential to decentralize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
traditional retail strategy, and how best to grow the company in Sweden. While both of these are potentially important future growth drivers, they also entail large investments in new capabilities, adversely affecting current performance.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
choices to optimally guide the other choices." This definition captures the idea of strategy as the core of an intended course of action that is potentially flexible and adaptive. It coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
good CSR performance are likely to report their CSR activities, thus increasing their overall transparency. Higher levels of transparency ease the fears of potential investors, making them more likely to invest. Driven by Social... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
In addition, the company's total indebtedness was approximately $3.3 billion, including $146 million of subordinated convertible debenture. The company's substantial indebtedness had the potential to have adverse consequences in a number... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Prima facie, it is unclear whether media outlets are favoring their own authors because these are the authors that their readers prefer or simply because they are trying to collude. We provide a test to distinguish between these two View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
last two years, spending not only on a potentially huge customer base, but also as a source of cutting-edge manufacturing, said Dhananjaya Dvivedi, senior managing executive officer of Shinsei Bank. HBS professor McFarlan said it is clear... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
leader. Zimmer is a major medical device firm, but the Spine division has underperformed, and its core technology did not get the expanded FDA label that had been expected. The case reviews the industry, the competitive landscape, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
work. A knowledge repository has the potential to help peripheral individuals gain access to valuable knowledge because it is universally available and can be used without social interaction. However, for it to successfully serve this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at http://www.nber.org/data/chat. We discuss the main aim of CHAT, its scope and limitations, as well as several ways in which we have used the data so far and ways to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
potential areas of conflict. Then, to gain the upper hand, companies can use a variety of tools that fall into two main categories: hard power (inducements or coercion to get what you want) and soft power (persuasion through indirect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how... View Details
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
across the board, but rather weed out less effective initiatives and consolidate good ones. Effective programs that serve the community in a compelling way, and that also demonstrate a strong potential to influence the business, must be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world's reserves of natural gas, Russia was judged to be using its energy resources to beat up on a helpless neighbor and to flex its geopolitical—and View Details