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  • October 1987 (Revised February 1992)
  • Case

Motorola and Japan (A)

By: David B. Yoffie and John J. Coleman
In 1981, Motorola was reevaluating its strategy towards Japan. The firm had been successful in penetrating the Japanese market, and it was confronting increased Japanese competition at home. How it should respond and with what kind of organization were the central... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Standards; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Japan
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  • October 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (C)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
This case is the third installment in a series about the 10-year cultural and digital transformation of Pfizer’s Global Clinical Supply organization. In 2011, Michael Ku became Pfizer’s Vice President of Global Clinical Supply (GCS) after the company had undergone... View Details
Keywords: Clinical Supply Chain; COVID-19; Vaccine; Agile; Innovation and Invention; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Leadership; Corporate Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain Management; Digital Transformation
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  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

guarantees that are open-ended. I believe we need to be honest about these implicit guarantees, to define and limit them. That's the purpose of this whole proposal, not to put systemic firms at a competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

very difficult to measure quality, this ceteris paribus proviso often precludes convincing empirical assessments of the magnitude of status effects. We address this problem by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

From Das’s Desk

amazing, profound experience.” —Stephanie Crimmins (MBA 2000) “I’ve been reflecting for some time on my core purpose and how that translates into a vision for the next phase of my professional and personal... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

implications of this result for both innovating managers, as well as researchers in the field. We also assess how future work in this area might proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

firm-size distribution and de jure and de facto measures of international capital integration. We then explore causal channels through which foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2000 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

Boston Medical Group

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Bruce L. Hall
Describes the structure of a variable compensation plan for physicians implemented by a Massachusetts medical group practice. Examines issues such as balancing group and individual risk and selection of performance metrics (productivity and patient satisfaction). View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Health Care and Treatment; Executive Compensation; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

accountability demands. HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim examines the tradeoffs inherent in a range of accountability mechanisms. Key concepts include: Accountability is not simply about compliance with laws or industry standards, but is more... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

increases price dispersion within narrow categories, is consistent with a standard vertical differentiation model in the presence of price controls. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54120 Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

members (Caucasian Americans, Israelis) and minority-group members (Asian Americans), as well as across different measures of creativity (flexibility, association, insight). Our findings have important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Joan E. Ricart Publication:Management Research 8, no. 2 (2010) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to reflect on competitiveness by using the business model concept and to understand the need to adapt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

are impacted most by regulation are those measuring working status, social networks, business skills, and attitudes toward risk. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14012 Bank Structure and the Terms View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

measure of originality, I find that competition has an inverted-U effect on creativity: some competition is necessary to induce agents to produce radically novel, untested ideas over incrementally tweaking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 19, 2021
  • Article

The Facebook Trap

By: Andy Wu
Facebook has a clear mission: Connect everyone in the world. Clarity is good, but in Facebook’s case, it has also put the company in a bind because the mission—and the company’s vision for creating value through network effects—has also become the source of its biggest... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Mission and Purpose; Network Effects; Value Creation; Corporate Accountability; Strategy
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  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

plans to offer the technology for use in Internet, catalog, and in-store shopping. 10 BodyMetrics Ltd. provides software that recommends the best fitting size for the garment selected and on-screen visualization of clothing on a... View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • May–June 2023
  • Article

Should Your Start-up Be For-profit or Nonprofit?: A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs

By: Cait Brumme and Brian Trelstad
Years ago the line between nonprofit and for-profit enterprises was clear, but that has changed. Nonprofits now offer products that compete with those of the best for-profits, and for-profits can deliver as much social value as charities. Despite the blurred... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions
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