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- March 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás Ibáñez and David Cotterman were considering how best to continue to diversify their investor base and how to optimize... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Family Business; Investment; Ownership; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; Latin America; Chile
Wing, Christina R., and David Lane. "Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners." Harvard Business School Case 621-065, March 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- July 2021
- Teaching Plan
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-065. View Details
- winter 1993
- Article
Scale and Scope Effects on Advertising Agency Costs
By: A. J. Silk and E. Berndt
Silk, A. J., and E. Berndt. "Scale and Scope Effects on Advertising Agency Costs." Marketing Science 12 (winter 1993): 1–20.
- 18 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
Keywords: by Lamar Pierce & Michael W. Toffel
- 1997
- Book
Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm
By: D. J. Collis and C. A. Montgomery
Keywords: Corporate Strategy
Collis, D. J., and C. A. Montgomery. Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm. IL: Irwin, 1997.
- 1997
- Chapter
Patent Scope and Emerging Industries: Biotechnology, Software, and Beyond
By: Josh Lerner and Robert P. Merges
Keywords: Patents; Applications and Software; Genetics; Information Technology Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Robert P. Merges. "Patent Scope and Emerging Industries: Biotechnology, Software, and Beyond." In Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, edited by D. B. Yoffie, 301–324. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
- March 1998
- Article
The Dynamics of Learning Alliances: Competition, Cooperation, and Relative Scope
Gulati, Ranjay, Tarun Khanna, and Nitin Nohria. "The Dynamics of Learning Alliances: Competition, Cooperation, and Relative Scope." Strategic Management Journal 19, no. 3 (March 1998). (A shorter version of this paper appeared in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings, 1994.)
- Research Summary
The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?
The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Lost in the Clouds: The Impact of Copyright Scope on Investment in Cloud Computing Ventures
By: Josh Lerner and Greg Rafert
Our analysis seeks to understand the impact of changes in copyright scope on investment in new firms. We begin by analyzing the investment effects of the Cartoon Network, et al. v. Cablevision decision in the U.S. and court rulings in France and Germany on venture... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Investment; Business Startups; Copyright; France; Germany; United States; European Union
Lerner, Josh, and Greg Rafert. "Lost in the Clouds: The Impact of Copyright Scope on Investment in Cloud Computing Ventures." 2012.
- March 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Module Note
Corporate Strategy
By: Ashish Nanda
As a strategist, you must decide for your firm what products to produce, what customers to serve, what geographies to operate in, and what activities to perform. This note on Corporate Strategy, which introduces the fifth module of the RC Strategy course, offers a... View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 720-448, March 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- July 2019
- Module Note
Interdependence vs. Modularity: Getting the Scope of the Business Right
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Christensen, Clayton M. "Interdependence vs. Modularity: Getting the Scope of the Business Right." Harvard Business School Module Note 420-016, July 2019.
- Summer 2018
- Article
Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor
By: Daniel P. Gross
Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope... View Details
Keywords: Technology Diffusion; Spatial Technology Diffusion; Farm Tractors; R＆D; General-purpose Technologies; Technology Adoption; Agribusiness; Transportation; Research and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Gross, Daniel P. "Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor." RAND Journal of Economics 49, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 427–452.
- 25 Jun 2012 - 2012
- Conference Presentation
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
- 25 Apr 2012 - 2012
- Conference Presentation
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
- September–October 2013
- Article
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Pierce, Lamar, and Michael W. Toffel. "The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1558–1584. (Winner of the NBS Research Impact on Practice Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) and Network for Business Sustainability (NBS))
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
As general managers advance through their careers, they are often asked to bring their skills to bear on a new level of responsibilities. For the recently appointed country or business-unit manager of a multinational organization, such challenges can be especially... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Spring 2014
- Article
What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Organizations with social missions, such as nonprofits and social enterprises, are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework... View Details
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance." California Management Review 56, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 118–141.
- 18 Feb 2011
- Conference Presentation
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
- Article
The Managerial Implications of Changing Work Force Demographics: A Scoping Study
By: Gary W. Loveman, John J. Gabarro and Jay W. Lorsch
Loveman, Gary W., John J. Gabarro, and Jay W. Lorsch. "The Managerial Implications of Changing Work Force Demographics: A Scoping Study." Human Resource Management 30, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 7–29.