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  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Too Big To Fail

assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

boundaries of these learning behaviors. We find that effective virtual teams, like co-located teams, engage in both reflective and action-oriented learning behaviors. However, the virtual context highlights distinct participation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

full-service bank; describes the competitive context of low-income sector of financing in Mexico; and reviews the decisions leading to the IPO in the Mexican Stock Exchange. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2024
  • Case

ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Business Earnings; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Communication Intention and Meaning; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Competition; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Social Marketing; Marketing Channels; E-commerce; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Fashion Industry; Spain; Germany; Italy; Europe; United States
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  • 21 May 2018
  • News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

there’s no pressing need for introductions; since these groups are usually siloed revenue producers. Competition with other departments, the need for subject-matter expertise—these are the circumstances that typically create leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. We find several positive effects for non-nodal districts located 0-10 km from GQ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111084-PDF-ENG Hindustan Unilever's 'Pureit' Water Purifier V. Kasturi Rangan and Mona SrivastavaHarvard Business School Case 511-067 The case asks students to formulate a strategy to respond to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition? Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract We explore the conditions under which service competition leads to customer defection from an incumbent and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

learn some lessons from the limited success of current approaches to design their strategy in this exciting area. Do You Really Want to Be an eBay? Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

overly narrow goals. Consider the experience of Airbnb, which ran experiments to evaluate booking strategies but ignored the potential for discrimination. After research by Luca and colleagues found evidence of widespread discrimination... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources-what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"-plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2010
  • Teaching Note

A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for 309060. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Social and Collaborative Networks; Video Game Industry; China
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  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

their firm’s competitive advantage. Based on the author’s successful strategy course, Better, Simpler Strategy will become every business strategist’s must-have guide for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

founded a regional marketing effort to brand or market the area, but then shifted focus to building clusters. Examines the motivations of companies and company executives to get involved in regional competitiveness efforts and provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung Publication:Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29

competitive advantage-Red Bull had established itself as the U.S. market leader in energy drinks. By 2008, however, Red Bull's dominance was challenged as Monster drinks surpassed it in volume. The case considers judo View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

cost transparency caveats for retailers. A firm may not want to share production costs if the cost structure provides a competitive advantage. In addition, contracts with suppliers may prevent making certain information public. And it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne