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  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the "cannibalization" and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very profitable for a long time, but the percentage of drugs that make it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 10 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

the agency implied that it would respect the public’s wishes, say Michael Norton and Leslie John, both professors at Harvard Business School. “When firms conduct online polls, people frequently submit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

organizations that really ends up with no trend line” “For decades, we’ve been in this cycle where an organization hires a consulting firm to help design and execute a restructuring, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

picture as firms emerge as weak transferors of knowledge and contribute to income divergence. However, the evidence is partial and patchy. Many topics, from the relations... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

have a sufficiently deep understanding of operational details. Most operations—both within the firm and in the supply chain—are rife with "hidden" information and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • Career Coach

Ryan Kim

independent sponsor private equity firm and completed a self-funded search to buy a regional automotive installation services business which he operated as President. Prior to that, Ryan worked in large... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Search Fund; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Calloway Laboratory: Pee for Profit

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Describes the formation and rapid growth of a drug-testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry
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  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

work also provides insights into how firms can create employment contracts that are in step with company goals. This e-mail interview is based on two working papers by Autrey and colleagues Shane Dikolli... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 17 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1990 (Revised February 1991)
  • Case

Sony Corp.: Globalization

By: Michael Y. Yoshino
Keywords: Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

members' prior experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of diversity in team member experience by alleviating coordination problems that diversity creates. We use detailed project- and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Globalization Revisited

“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • January 2010 (Revised November 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Genzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play its HAND (TN)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Teaching Note for [910407]. View Details
Keywords: Programs; Intellectual Property; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Markets; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

long-run supply and demand conditions. In the short run, intense competition between private-equity groups may lead to a willingness to pay a premium for certain types of firms (e.g., View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

HBS Press Books in Brief

maintain that in order to survive, traditional multinationals must stop playing yesterday's global game — essentially creating a homegrown strategy and then projecting it around the world — View Details
Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

JP(D) and foreign inventors JP(F) patenting in Japan. Source: Tom Nicholas, "The Origins of Japanese Technological Modernization", Explorations in Economic History (2011, forthcoming). http://people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Jmod.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace