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  • 04 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

the effects of geographic distance and a "hot" IPO market on the formation of networks in the venture capital industry. The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

for the most part. And private conversations, by their nature, can't mobilize an organization to address the gaps between its business strategy and the structure, capabilities, and market realities it faces. In our experience, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

organizations to strategies built on partnerships to accomplish both their individual and their newly shared goals. A similar incongruity seemed to exist between Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Visa International. RIF is a national... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/01/ideos-culture-of-helping/ar/1 January 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1983 (Revised April 1991)
  • Case

Dominion Engineering Works

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Dominion Engineering Works faces important strategic decisions about whether to continue its focused strategy of selling newsprint machines to the Canadian paper industry or whether recent changes in industry conditions and the emergence of three global competitors... View Details
Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Diversification
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  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

high-growth companies, those with the greatest potential to create jobs. One challenge: geographic gaps across the United States. "Despite the fact that America has a very robust market for risk capital, about 70 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

consequences of multiple identities in organizations and spark novel research questions in the organizational literature. Publisher's link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/qFQy7bdBGz6scHxc8aVS/full   Working Papers Bridging Science and Technology Through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2011 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

Mochi Media

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Amit Jain
In late 2009, the management of Mochi Media, a venture-backed startup, must decide how to invest scarce resources to achieve continued growth. Mochi has developed a three-sided platform, connecting Flash game developers, sites that aggregate these games, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Network Effects; Multi-Sided Platforms; Partners and Partnerships; Competition
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  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

agent-based simulation model of network emergence. Using data on technology partnerships from 1983 to 1999 among firms in the automotive, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, microelectronics, new materials, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2023
  • Case

Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant

By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; ESG Reporting; Acquisition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Human Capital; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Customer Ownership; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Reputation; Human Needs; Social Issues; Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010) Abstract There is a widespread sense... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 1994
  • Case

VideoGuide, Inc. (A)

By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
VideoGuide is emerging from a development stage start-up and requires a significant capital infusion to commercialize its product. Various financing options are considered including going public, venture capital, private placement, or a strategic partner. Given the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Capital; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development Strategy; Going Public
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  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

Group plc: May 2006 Harvard Business School Case 807-006 Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to help the far-flung organization become more of a streamlined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

U.S. data. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower systematic risk (beta) and lower idiosyncratic risk. However, over the last 40 years, lower risk banks have higher stock returns on a risk-adjusted or even a raw basis, consistent with a stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

argue that the evolving global network structure affects firms' propensity to form bridging ties by shaping the structural opportunities for bridging. We test our theory using the network of partnership ties among firms in the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406127 HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI Harvard Business School Case 606-045 Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

eight months, and quickly established offices in Europe and Asia. Within a year it had announced forty strategic partnerships with companies such as Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Citibank. Pandesic executives boldly announced their first... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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