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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
people) or not served at all. Third, the products and services they offer are simpler and cheaper than alternatives, but recipients view them as good enough. Fourth, they bring in resources in ways that initially seem unattractive to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
knitting all these pieces together will require a much higher degree of integration than has been the norm in the health-care industry. Difficult though it will be, these providers need to disrupt themselves. Employers will need to play a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
place—and all specialists who are focused on just lung cancer." Source: The Health Care Crisis, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. MD Anderson's integrated practice units became the subject of a 2008... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
from a manufacturing to an innovation-led enterprise. How would they balance short-term pragmatism versus long-term vision? Do they have the appropriate human resources to scale and innovate? Is their India-centric strategy appropriate,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures resulting from interest rate policy is the relocation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
property right allocations, we find that studio-financed films receive superior marketing investments compared to independent films and that these investments fully mediate the positive effect of vertical integration on film revenues. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
dearly for the intangible aspects of the product, which the firm works very hard to keep integrated with the physical product. Deals with a range of issues confronting creative economy companies, such as how to produce products with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
to maintain just one product. Hospitals want to control the health care delivery system, and they've become oligopolists or monopolists in many markets, thus obviating price and quality competition, and they've become vertically View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new out-group affect the economic,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Many of these shortcomings can be attributed to the Bank's inability or unwillingness to fully integrate accountability to affected peoples into incentive structures for staff. In addition, there has been little improvement in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective action problems associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
in expectation. We also show that by offering both CPC and CPA, an ad platform can weakly increase its revenues compared to offering either alternative alone. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-074.pdf Competition and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
approaches that redesign specific incentives, tasks, and decisions to reduce temptations to cheat in the environment. This paper explores how these approaches can change behavior. We argue that integrating both approaches while avoiding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
adaptation of the strategy map—perhaps done annually—and provides a central resource for implementing all five management processes to become a strategy-focused organization (the subject of our previous book): mobilize, translate, align,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
possible responses to this shortage: Sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers greater capacity, but network incentives impede transition. Paid transfers of IP addresses would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Automated Text Analysis By: Mankad, Shawn, Hyunjeong "Spring" Han, Joel Goh, and Srinagesh Gavirneni Abstract—Customer reviews submitted at Internet travel portals are an important yet underexplored new resource in obtaining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
policies, institutions, or resource endowments. I show that firms have agency. When governments attempted to reverse globalization during the interwar years, firms redesigned their international businesses rather than abandon them.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether and how to integrate them. The most common reasons for making an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne