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  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

invested in the rural areas based on the company's participation in the government-mandated "Connect Every Village" project, China Mobile took advantage of this foundation and created new products... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2316198   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 512-049 Bluefin Labs Bluefin Labs built a system that gathered, from Twitter and other sources, millions of hourly social media postings, comments, and views on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational cultures are varied, and participants have clashing or even antagonistic perspectives. I have studied more than a dozen cross-industry innovation projects, among them the creation of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-069.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAccounting for the iPhone at Apple Inc. Francois Brochet, Krishna G. Palepu, and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 111-003 Apple initially recognized revenue associated with its iPhone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics, in particular, gender and migration status, shapes the configuration of the donor pool, signaling View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Alfred M. Zeien

    market. As a part of that strategy, an extensive amount of pure product research was conducted each year. This research enabled Gillette products to compete primarily with themselves, allowing the company to... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
    • 24 Dec 2013
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    First Look: December 24

    differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 19 Mar 2013
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    First Look: March 19

    tightly linked to changes in firm diversification and IT investments. These relationships depend crucially on the function involved: those closer to the product ("product" functions, e.g., marketing / R&D) behave differently... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Estee Lauder

      Lauder built one of the most successful and exclusive cosmetic companies in the world. She was the pioneer of the “free sample” strategy, which marked a new era of salesmanship. To retain their aura of exclusivity, her View Details
      Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
      • June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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      Revlon India's Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard

      By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
      Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international color cosmetics to India. After growing rapidly and pioneering the Beauty Advisor (BA) model in India, the... View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Restructuring; Training; Supply Chain Management; Distribution; E-commerce; Business Model; Business Plan; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketing Strategy; Alignment; Brands and Branding; Negotiation; Joint Ventures; Strategic Planning; Salesforce Management; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; India
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      • 05 Feb 2013
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      First Look: Feb. 5

      firm's decision to emphasize a particular strategic orientation can depend on its competitors' orientation choices. Based on two studies of customer, technology, and production orientations, we show that the emphasis a firm places on a... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Apr 2014
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      First Look: April 29

      Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 01 Nov 2011
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      First Look: Nov. 1

      repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically inefficient if they consistently generate fewer returns to investors than they absorb in View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

      This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

      • 02 Jun 2009
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      First Look: June 2, 2009

      in many creative industries, monetary incentives play a reduced role in motivating authors to remain creative. Data on the supply of new works are consistent with the argument that file sharing did not discourage authors and publishers.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 28 Sep 2010
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      First Look: September 28, 2010

      These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 08 Oct 2013
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      First Look: October 8

      use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 10 Jan 2012
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      First Look: January 10

      managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne