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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
"Advertising executives in the online marketspace must have different analytical competencies than their counterparts in the traditional offline world," says Law, who helps recruit senior e-commerce executives for Russell Reynolds.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
help launch an unproven idea for a nonprofit. “During the 1990s, we’d been asking how Bain could use its core competency to serve society,” says Tierney. “That led to a business plan in 1996, which became a reality in early 2000.” That... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
going. We want the region to move forward, not just any one hospital.” “What’s begun here is the core for collaboration among competing health-care providers,” says Dr. Judy Smith of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. “It won’t... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Competition for Scarce Resources Authors:Péter Esö, Volker Nocke, and Lucy White Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics 41, no. 3 (fall 2010) Abstract We model a downstream industry where firms View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
eroded and principles have been compromised. And the result has been a weakening of these critical institutions. In situations like this—when conflicts of interests arise, and when the institutions no longer provide clear guidance and a framework for action—individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
compete for fishing quotas. The value of the fishing quota is not only determined by the volume, but also by the price for fish. BW: I’d worked on auctions. I had some of the early papers on the subject and then I had this brilliant... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
organizational structures such as codes are associated with improvements in supplier labor practices, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving incentive structures. We investigate under what internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
Maintenance of Certification Examinations By: Valentine, Melissa A., S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal, and R. Rhodes Abstract—Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete successfully in the Chinese market. We conclude with China's approach to the global economy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Chi-Ho WongHarvard Business School Case 210-089 A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
of the board, or at least appointing a lead director, is so important. We all need to feel accountable to a higher authority. Contrary to the Business Roundtable's assertion that a lead director is needed only when issues of CEO succession or View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
customers. Often, this process leads to new strategic partnerships with targeted customers. For example, Rockwater, an undersea construction company in the Halliburton organization, competed mainly on price, a typical practice in the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to develop the conversational... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
competitors, competing in the area of IV solutions in the 1970s. Another reason is that they were located in similar geographic regions, making the transition of many of these people out of Baxter and Abbott and into east- and west-coast... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
like Crop One.” Those businesses, he notes, are “trying to create a sustainable investment strategy, not only from traditional economic terms but also from societal terms.” Which means that growing locally in a vertical farm allows FreshBox to View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
to compete with Sprite. So why don't we come up with something called Crystal Pepsi?" And that happened. So it's these decisions to launch products that you think will achieve something but you really don't know why you're doing it. It's... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
years old, one of my first clients told me to be different in kind, not degree. We’re competing well now, but it’s pure competition. We’re not a unique thing. I want to lift the Atlantic up to be something special, which probably means we... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects are made, this creates a tradeoff between a policy that encourages experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
environmental needs and its core competencies and institutional capacity. Using a "three theatre" CSR framework, the paper demonstrates why the question for corporations is not whether to engage in CSR, but why they need to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
trade perceptions of competence for likeability-the more successful they appear, the less positively they are regarded. Such trends affect both organizational openness to female leaders and the conceptions women have about themselves as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace