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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending associated with the redemption of such a coupon is focused on "marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf The Causes and Consequences of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
illustrates how deep dives guide the formation of a set of new core activities in the variation-selection-retention process. No PDF is available at this time. PublicationsWhat Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
Group—which it had been pursuing since 2000—would ever happen. If it did, how much business would the new entity have in the rapidly changing environment? All wondered how the industry would evolve. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
Most managers today understand the strategic implications of the information-based, knowledge-driven, service-intensive economy. They know what the new game requires: speed, flexibility and continuous self-renewal. They even are... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
terms of value created for customers, employees, and shareholders? If the latter, is it the natural result of a system of incentives geared to short-term financial rather than longer-term business benefits? And what does it say about the overall future strength of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
greater the likelihood that it will not be a major player in future competitions in rapidly changing environments. But they reflect something more: a belief that competition in information technology at this stage of the game requires... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of firms' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
"holy grail" as opposed to goals (often merely financial), missions or visions, or even a set of values. As Mourkogiannis puts it, "Let others play with 'strategy' and 'tactics' and 'management.' Purpose is the game of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit ratings arguably... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Disney Company expects to lose up to $190 million on its summer fiasco The Lone Ranger, another star vehicle featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Welcome to the risky strategy of "blockbusters," practiced increasingly by movie, TV, and recording companies;... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
stretch goal would be a turnover of 10 in five years, with improvements toward that goal recognized and rewarded on a year-to-year basis. One goal of this philosophy was to eliminate the time-wasting annual budgeting game in which middle... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
cutbacks, the firm was late to the game in the digital imaging market. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. The aforementioned Nokia fixated on maintaining its leadership in the low-end phone business, a failure to anticipate the rise of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Working PapersCapitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan (revised October 2009) Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Publications Forthcoming Management Science How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
synchronicity with market and industry returns. We find that firms voluntarily disclosing more sustainability information, identified as material by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), have lower stock price... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
the best chance of ringing in a sale if the considered product is surrounded by related items in the same category, rather than a mishmash of random, unrelated items, Karmarkar says. In other words, if a consumer clicks on the Bananagrams View Details