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- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
have a differentially lower response to these perceived benefits. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1590245 Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster Authors:Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca M. Henderson Abstract Much... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
cooperation depending on the culture of the high-power manager with whom they interacted. This study contributes to understanding how culture shapes behavior of people with relatively low power, illustrates how a logic of appropriateness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
(rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to Google’s entry threat and actual entry into their markets. We find that, after Google’s entry threat increases, affected developers reduce innovation and raise the prices... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Third, vacancies are higher for difficult jobs because easy jobs can be filled by more workers. Fourth, some workers are overqualified for their jobs, whereas others are underqualified. Misassigned workers earn less than they would have had they found an open slot in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
benefitted from the change in ownership. This paper presents data and evidence that supports only the first of those assertions, and only to a limited extent: the companies devised political strategies that maneuvered Roosevelt into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
PublicationsCases about Redefining Global Strategy Authors:Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 807-029 Explores the globalization strategies of Natura, Brazil's largest cosmetics company. Founded in 1969, Natura grew using a direct selling model. Led by its three founders, the firm made distinctive use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Author Read The Interview These scaling strategies have been integral to the campus's design, both at its inception and today. When students first moved to the School's current location, the idea of a small residential community already... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Business Around Medical Conditions The starting point for developing strategy in any field is to define the relevant business or businesses in which an organization competes. Health care delivery is no different. Health care providers do... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
assure that state and local governments can appropriately respond to the digital activities that impact physical realities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54300 August 2017 Journal of Law & Economics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal strategy of targeting such threats. As a result, the American financial system was left more vulnerable than ever to a major shock." Given this record of regulatory failure and neglect,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
little-known Essay on the State of England? Sophus Reinert: My book is essentially about how political economy first emerged as an "academic science" in the early modern period, and about the actual ideas and policies—the national View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
focused on getting news out to media outlets, today's CCO has become an integral part of any enterprise-company, corporation, governmental, and nongovernmental entity. Today's CCO is responsible for internal and external communication; with creating and implementing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
to 34 year old males. Hirai was determined to restore that supremacy, in the current generation or the next. He knew that, whether or not he publicly defined SCEI's strategy as a response to Wii, he had to find a way for his company to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
additional compensation across social category lines than it did within them. The results thus broach an ethical dilemma for managers: Is it appropriate to let mere social category lines interfere with profit maximization? Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
encourage the continued patronage of customers. They allow retailers to gather data on customer behavior in order to decipher trends, appropriately reward loyalty, and influence shopping behavior. Loyalty schemes take many forms; some of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (D) Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa BartonHarvard Business School Supplement 411-004 Dow's board and management team worked on arranging appropriate financing to complete the acquisition of Rohm and Haas.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
develop strategies for managing their own emotions, as well as those of the people on the receiving end, in order to facilitate successful task performance. Watching others, role-playing with a colleague, doing a dry-run in front of a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
Even some of the forum participants, says Leonard, "didn't think what we are calling for is either appropriate for or likely to come from business and business leaders." And while Leonard agrees that some of the criticisms are valid, "the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish