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  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

for relevant customization and adaptation to specific client needs. This is a significant aspect of maintaining ongoing client relationships. I observed that teams under heightened pressure tend to shut out dissenting points of view and new information, focus View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models complement one another: MGM makes important capital investments in theaters tailored to CdS's shows that are located in the middle of MGM casinos; CdS acts as a magnet for traffic for an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

subsidiary exclusively dedicated to microfinance. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/309126-PDF-ENG Jo Worthington (A) Dorothy LeonardHarvard Business School Case 911-404 A relatively inexperienced professor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

comprehensive and shareable information on their suppliers; Broadview, a global M&A adviser and private equity investor focusing exclusively on the IT, communications, and media industries; and SCB Enterprise Solutions, an off-site... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

provides a wide array of in-aisle treats and accessories to drive impulse purchases. At the same time, they've maintained a strategy of exclusivity with pet food so that they are not stocking all of the same items that Walmart and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

funds and closed-end funds. The U.S. ETF industry had reached $36 billion in assets under management, growing rapidly over the past few years. Because ETFs were exclusively index-tracking products, Vanguard, the largest index mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

LLP, has just returned from the groundbreaking of Deloitte University. When completed, Deloitte University would be a world class learning and development center owned by, and for the exclusive use by the employees of, Deloitte. Deloitte... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

target super fans with high priced, exclusive and/or personalized offers from artists. At a time when tensions are high between streaming services and artists who believe that they are not being fairly compensated for the use of their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

mismatch can create. First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by perpetuating established business practices. Second, even when the vertical hierarchies produce highly innovative sectors in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

economicus, model of human behavior that treats managers as selfish maximizers of personal wealth and power. The Homo economicus model implies that a firm's board of directors can best further stockholders' interests by (a) selecting managerial personnel who are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

terms of the deal and exclusivity agreement already sketched out with Citigroup or to approve a definitive merger agreement with Wells Fargo. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

their decision rights within firms, but managers can seek permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to dismiss proposals. We find that managers seek to exclude 39% of all proposals they receive, but the SEC does not permit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

in industrial water and wastewater systems. Woteer had expressed an interest in gaining exclusive access to Oasys' forward osmosis technology for water treatment applications in China in exchange for an equity investment. Jim Matheson,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

the private equity industry, he has one last opportunity to pitch the deal to Asdar Capital. If unsuccessful, the time on Sanankoua's exclusivity agreement with the owners will run out. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

improve social and environmental conditions in the communities in which they do business. Whereas firms once might have been able to prosper by concerning themselves almost exclusively with financial results, most now find it at least... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

additional 60,000 rural villages. By relying exclusively on low-income women as their frontline sales force, it also provided a significant source of income to a traditionally marginalized group. Q: What are some of challenges that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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