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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
offering a limited menu of options, which may drive customers away. Some companies have learned to deal with customer-introduced variability without damaging either their operating environments or customers' service experiences.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
thrilled, but his euphoria over getting such a good deal was short-lived. By the time we got back to our car, Greg said he couldn't help but feel a bit fake while wearing the watch. Ironi¬cally, this was exactly the opposite of our... View Details
Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
Apple's strategic moves under the leadership of CEOs Jobs, Sculley, Spindler, Amelio, and (again) Jobs; places those moves in the context of structural features of the evolving PC industry; and covers the iPod and iPhone businesses at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms, examining the impact that smart,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
management, flawed internal and external accounting, low skill and/or low integrity people, and corrosive cultures. Piecemeal attempts to fix elements of corporate governance will fail. The problem, to illustrate, is not just the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
tax shields of majority-owned PE-backed firms, which reduce their need for nonconforming (i.e., more aggressive) tax strategies. Lastly, we examine how different private ownership structures (e.g., majority PE ownership vs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
between the structure of a development organization and the architecture of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often said to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations from which they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in gaming platforms; analyze... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
harder-even in the absence of repeated interactions or strategic career concerns. In a field experiment with 266 employees, we show that paying above-market wages, per se, does not have an effect on effort. However, structuring a portion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
problem lies not with the people who serve on boards, but rather the structure of boards themselves, argue Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch and consultant Colin B. Carter. In Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70 million) and II ($250 million) emphasized careful targeting of sectors and in-depth work to develop the portfolio companies post-acquisition. With the industry's greater velocity and deal size, can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
in the jungle. "Social structures evolve, and the ability to manipulate those from the top is probably limited." For baseball, Baker looked for leaders in the bullpen and on the bench, someone from the infield and someone from... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Published: January 10, 2011 For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509012 Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail Harvard Business School Case 709-409 The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
practices in structural units that align with the logic emphasized by the practice: when adopting practices reflecting a market logic, organizations will locate them in mainline business units, such as marketing; conversely, when adopting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25
field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace