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- 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006
MaterialsChina: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition Harvard Business School Case 706-036 The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
professional and customer reviews, and ratings systems” Understanding how online retailers can cause these same-store sales and gross margin declines by affecting the operating metrics of a retail store is fundamental to understanding the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and Technology and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
with procedures that respect rights and afford subsequent accountability. Some critics fear that socially responsible corporate activity encroaches upon the role of government and usurps authority reserved for elected officials and bodies... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
focused in his first couple of years. He got rid of a huge number of product lines. He streamlined the operations and he bet on a very small number of products. The combination of the early success of the iMac, the booming marketing in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
to the belief, now firmly lodged in public consciousness, that high environmental standards are not just desirable but their birthright. To set the stage, Reinhardt reminded the group that pollution is not a new phenomenon in human... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
long-term study. Now owned by Mannesmann, the factory itself still manufactures large-diameter pipes today. Before the 1920s, German firms were often messier, more haphazard, less decentralized than many American corporations. However, instead of looking at one of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
increases. Lastly, it is argued that the common practice of announcing price increases in advance is much easier to rationalize with regret concerns by consumers than with more standard approaches to price rigidity. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
valuation estimates to examine whether analysts reliably assess the risk surrounding a firm's fundamental value. We find that the spread in analysts' state-side contingent valuations captures the riskiness of operations and predicts the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
turnaround. Consider the situations that confronted new CEOs in three companies: Gillette: Its performance was strong through the mid-1990s, but by the beginning of 2001, this global consumer-products company had experienced several years of flat sales, declining View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
five minutes to be matched to a driver—rather than the standard two minutes—rider cancellation rates increase, but Uber’s costs per ride are reduced. Together with data scientists, engineers, and product View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods markets with societal implications, quality View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
standards. Who is to blame? The owners of the factory, or the retailers that demand price levels that cannot be met if reasonable safety standards for factory workers are in place? Let's step back and consider this account of an... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
study was a concern that people aren’t saving enough, and that as a result, they won’t have an adequate standard of living in old age.” Beshears is part of the School’s Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit, where he researches... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
to developing a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard that places economic, environmental, and social objectives as the highest-level objectives. He faces the challenges of cascading the corporate Balanced Scorecard to operating units... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
electronic commerce than in the B2B segment, since industry standards for characterizing color and fabric are more familiar forms of communication for business partners than for individual consumers. Compounding the difficulty in... View Details