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13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

expand internationally with a regional focus on East Asia or, alternatively, a focus on the U.S. and other Western markets. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708479 HNA Group: Moving China's Air... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

of view of the demand side. Why is this so? A: Much of the blame for the recent problems has fallen on those responsible for preparing information. The auditors and audit committee, in particular, are perceived to have failed to carry out their duties, leading to... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

collective creativity and insight. These two divergent perspectives pose a paradox that has held the attention of scholars for many years. In response, researchers have marshaled evidence to specify the conditions under which diversity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

in state industries—became a closed caste, an industrial elite with hereditary jobs, and with privileges and security far above that of their rural cousins. If anything, the gap between urban and rural identities became greater. And the... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

believe that these extraordinary times call for massive public funds to be used for economic interventions, shouldn't these efforts be at least partially designed to promote new enterprises? Second, in many nations the venture industry is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

change in a nation with a relatively constant patent policy, Great Britain. Getting Known by the Company You Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Former Associations of Skilled Employees Authors: Peter Roberts and Mukti Khaire Publication: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock prices do not exhibit price... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic scenario planning or futurism. The more one is able to ask 'what if' and 'why not', the more View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2003
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Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

as industry and other variables, we found that men and women didn't tend to negotiate very different salaries, especially in industries where salaries were normative. But men and women did negotiate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

since Microsoft is a very aggressive company and eventually they'll figure out that prices are going to have to get lower and they're going to have to be more aggressive. The third option is that Apple says our real advantage is in application and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51099 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Digital technologies for sharing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

through the crowd to lesser-known microfinance borrowers in developing countries. Nanda puts most current crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo in the equivalent of the donation or lending category. Kickstarter began as a way for View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help-but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it-and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

technical and management team members. Now running desperately low on cash, Perlman had to contend with many potential deal partners, including VCs, angels, and industrial partners (as potential sources of cash); consumer electronics... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

2011
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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

market in October 2000, few people took notice. Its business model was not perceived as particularly aggressive or threatening to the industry. Less than three years later, Telmore's creative adaptation of the well-known, no-frills model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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First Look: January 13, 2009

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

First Look: February 10

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

First Look: February 3, 2009

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

First Look: May 13

May 31, 2016

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

First Look: June 24

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

First Look: September 9, 2008

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