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  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

of creating a business. A few years ago, the amount of money needed to fund a new company would make this kind of investing just a drop in the bucket for most startups. Today, the bar to start a company has been lowered thanks to cloud computing and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Rhythm & Blues

By: Willy Shih
The bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues, who received an Oscar for the arresting visual effects in Life of Pi, raised questions about the challenges faced by the firms like it as well as the broader post-production industry. The rapid pace of technology certainly... View Details
Keywords: Post-production; Visual Effects; Digital; Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Los Angeles
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  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

for this to happen. Q: There's an interesting phenomenon going on, and that's basically outsourcing fairly complex surgeries to India for much cheaper prices. Does this actually pose a threat to the institutionalized health care system at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give case-writing workshop participants practice writing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

markets or businesses emerging in other parts of the world that create opportunities or threats? Offshoring and Outsourcing: Are there opportunities to create value by outsourcing or offshoring activities that you currently perform inside... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

than they had expected with higher-than-anticipated costs, a monopolistic distribution network, strong competitors, a weak partner ecosystem, and a market that was unresponsive to tariff cuts. In early 2012, a year and a half later, the company has View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718424-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-040 Sales Razor Technologies Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

clients (i.e., those clients for whom real estate is not their core business) under a single structure, the Corporate Solutions Group, to target the profitable and growing segment of global MNCs who are outsourcing their real estate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

research, we propose that socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create an outsourcing strategy given... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

building in the operations of a major Korean shipbuilder. While Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSHM) had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

with limited financial resources can then focus on supplying superior bottleneck modules, while outsourcing and allowing complementors to supply non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how the variability of payoffs to effort affects the optimal way the owner of the intellectual property uses it. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

It's the most wonderful time of the year—or that's how the song goes. But this year's decline in retail sales has resulted in definitely uncheery employee layoffs and payroll cuts, a trend that is likely to continue. While the vicious cycle of declining sales and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209012 TCS: The MCA 21 Project Harvard Business School Case 609-024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

HP and Dell that have outsourced most of their computer product design to ODM firms like ASUSTeK, only to watch them morph into competitors. Students can also examine how organizational resources, processes, and values can shape or limit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

growth dilemmas facing Manish Sabharwal, co-founder, TeamLease Services Pvt. Ltd. TeamLease is a human resource outsourcing and temp staffing company located in India, which has grown rapidly from 2002 to 2009. Set in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study investigates the extent of such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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