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  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

comprehensive analysis of the range of possible strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where their choices of business models are endogenously determined and where the incumbent may imitate an entrant's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

address this widespread problem while aligning their efforts with their broader, rapidly expanding business of selling coffee. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/green-mountain-coffee-roasters-inc/an/414065-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more products, thereby generating additional sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment (VoC). We develop a model of consumer choice that is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—Existing evidence on the impact of door-to-door canvassing comes from small-scale experiments that assign treatment at the individual level (at which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

decisions are endogenous, and 3) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing) once they have decided to affiliate. We show that search diversion remains a necessary strategic instrument for the intermediary even when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Case 813-060 Kyruus is used in a course at HBS on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS). It describes a young company that has built a very large database on physicians. The company has had some early successful pilots with prominent customers, but it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

acquisition—underperform. Working paper not available. Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream' Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra Abstract We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

of longer-term shareholders. Myth Number 4: ESG data for fundamental analysis is scarce and unreliable. Reality: Thanks to the efforts of reporting and investor organizations such as SASB and Ceres, as well as CDP data providers like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

crisis. From what’s been reported by the press, the crises in the past, he’s been able to bluster through. There may be different crises here, where it’s not a question of, say, talking firmly to your bankers. For the most part, it looks like he’s always had the View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

in the strength of agglomeration economies in Silicon Valley, but historically its origins lay in the East Coast. Notably, immediate post-WWII efforts to establish the American Research and Development Corporation created a precedent for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

institutional theory, we hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened—and thus are shamed—by these ratings. We extend existing theory by drawing on the strategic choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

enterprise" (emphasis added).12 When strategy choices were analyzed from a long-range perspective, the idea of "distinctive competence" took on added importance because of the risks involved in most long-run investments.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

leadership position against aggressive competition in a rapidly shifting and uncertain technological environment. Traces the evolution and transformation of the company and highlights the difficult choices Thomson faces in an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50693 Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The field of strategy has mounted an enormous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

tension surrounding the case is the choice to move from the hub of commerce in central London to a relatively obscure site whose owners (Olympia & York) have a history of financial bankruptcy. What business elements (clients,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

statesmen, capitalists, and intellectuals advocated for territorial rearrangements of various European economies, a discussion that lasted with greater or lesser intensity from the 1870s to the 1950s. Their sometimes competing and sometimes mutually reinforcing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher Abstract Many companies have successfully used outsourcing to lower costs. But, unless the company's efforts are unusually good, true competitive advantage is fleeting when competitors begin outsourcing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

important strategic choice for the future. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-065 Luminopia: Improving Treatment for Visual Disorders Luminopia—a start-up founded in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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