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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?Ntt=9781111972301&N=16+4294922453&Ntk=P_Isbn13 Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Current Survey Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:In Handbook of the Economics of Finance. Vol. 2, edited by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
regulation by offshoring or by abandoning the market; or ignoring the regulation by continuing with entrenched business practices. The path a profit-maximizing firm will choose depends, in part, on the expected cost of non-compliance, which is a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- September 1991 (Revised December 1991)
- Case
USA Today Decision, The: Making Headlines Across the Nation (A)
This two-part case series describes how the option of launching USA Today was defined and evaluated by the Gannett Corp. This case supports a broad discussion of whether the concept of a national, general interest daily fits with the changing external environment and... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Product Launch; Product Development; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; United States
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "USA Today Decision, The: Making Headlines Across the Nation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 792-030, September 1991. (Revised December 1991.)
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings The Next Economic Growth Engine Scaling Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in Production This paper summarizes View Details
Robert B. Shetterly
Shetterly led Clorox through a major diversification process after it became an independent company in 1969 (formerly part of Procter & Gamble). Shetterly produced strong financial returns while expanding from one household product to... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
that’s actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The summer months have been productive ones for the HBSAA Board of Directors. The Executive Committee met in New York in July and discussed assignments for the upcoming year. The following committees were... View Details
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Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies
By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that... View Details
Keywords: Platform Strategy; Repositioning; Cost-cutting; Intra-firm Learning; Multi-Sided Platforms; Cost Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Journalism and News Industry
Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu. "Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies." Strategy Science 2, no. 2 (June 2017): 83–99.
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
Shapiro taught a wide variety of MBA courses, among them Industrial Marketing, Sales Management, Creative Marketing Strategy, and Integrated Product Line Management. He also taught in many Executive Education programs and held various... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for them to be introduced in the next issue of the Bulletin -- and would like to thank those retiring members who served us so well. We look forward to working with the new team and building on the successes of the past with the help of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
obituary published. Autumn 1941 Bulletin changes from letterpress to offset printing "in order to facilitate the use of photographs without increasing production costs and to improve the appearance of each page." In keeping with a View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
he was “a businessman who became a teacher,” spent nine years at General Electric and also worked at Corning Glass and Sperry Gyroscope before coming to HBS. An authority on manufacturing and planning, he served as unit head of Production... View Details
David H. McConnell, Jr.
McConnell, Jr. substantially enlarged Avon. He increased the company's product offerings by 400% and lead Avon to become one of the largest cosmetics companies in the United States. View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
an emerging market. The prescription of this chapter is to think about a more ambitious role for such markets: establish a strategic business unit, designated as a "disruptive innovation hub," that is charged with first penetrating the emerging market with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
classmate who was managing a $1 billion–plus hedge fund. Having those kinds of relationships as you make your way through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
whether, when, and for which type of customer the introduction of a new channel helps and hurts sales in existing channels. Our framework separates short- and long-run effects by analyzing underlying channel capabilities. It suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Ralph E. Ward
Ward was instrumental in transforming Chesebrough-Pond’s from a small cosmetics company into a major consumer products conglomerate. A formidable risk-taker, Ward was a master of acquiring mature, stagnant companies and putting them on an... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the first of three visits to campus and the start of a very productive year of serving the School and their alumni constituents. This will be my first of two years as president of the Board, and I want to use these bimonthly columns in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
family businesses. Those who oversee larger, more mature businesses will hear from HBS experts on managing technological change and new product development, maintaining creativity, and managing the firm's... View Details