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- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in health care has been... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
outcomes. (2) Selecting or developing leaders for the future requires a forward-looking strategy and culture. (3) In a merger, designing a new culture on the basis of complementary strengths can speed up integration and create more value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
could still purchase an entire album. But consumers found more value in cherry-picking favorite tunes for much less money. Fans of Strawberry Alarm Clock, for instance, could buy the 1960s hit Incense and Peppermint while easily avoiding... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
purchasing life. The CLV formula incorporates metrics that capture the outputs of three key customer strategies that firms employ: asset acquisition (attracting new customers to the firm); asset maximization (maximizing the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
Porter, for example, saw the company surrounded by its suppliers, customers, competitors and substitutes, engaged in a battle with them to capture the maximum economic value possible. The subsequent interest... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
substantial experience with beer. For all its value as a (largely unheeded) cautionary note about the Internet investment bubble, from its first sentences the paper also captured Sahlman's central approach... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
continuous moments of joy was the best way of retaining it. Thus, the most captivating ads in the experiment were those that began by surprising the viewer and then went on to make the viewer smile. But successfully capturing and keeping... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
depriving themselves of revenue that they could capture by customers willing to pay higher prices. “People are lazy, and, on average, the first thing you present to them has a disproportionately high likelihood of being accepted,” Ngwe... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
funds exhibit no better skill at asset allocation. Furthermore, funds sold through brokers demonstrate more performance sensitivity than funds sold through the direct channel. While the costs of brokers' services are relatively clear, their benefits are not easily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
achievement'" (Dennis Nelson); "the level that does not allow segments of activity to capture regulators or regulations while also ensuring support for the disadvantaged and those in poverty" (Peter Bowie); one that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
in individual information processing steps of the S&OP process, a tradeoff which to our knowledge has not been highlighted in the supply chain management literature. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf Optimal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The trend of mandatory sustainability reporting picked up steam as consumers, investors, and civil society in general increasingly demonstrated that they value the social... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
product and service development is changing; creating the potential for higher R&D performance, innovation, and value creation for customers. The choice is simple: Organizations can either ignore these changes or take action and tap... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. Agents with higher outside options choose the market with a larger number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace