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- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when contracts are not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the regulations but also would have to support the final outcome. The case summarizes Dow's history, competitive dynamics in the sector, and regulation of the chemical industry before describing the REACH legislative process and various... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
consider how the reductions in aircraft capacity growth should be spread across the two plane types. This discussion hinges not only on issues of aircraft efficiency but also on those of operational focus and the ultimate competitive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
of work that differentiate a firm from its competitors, then meaning can be the foundation for sustainable competitive advantage. The causality can also run in the opposite direction; superior performance can enhance meaning insofar as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
conditions, it also can lead to competition between units, which may hoard, rather than share, expertise. By encouraging collaboration, a T-shaped management system can be a powerful counterbalance to such negative behavior. Our research... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
moral compass and an entire guidance system. The range of advantages for vanguard companies through their strategic use of values and principles include the following. Competitive differentiation. The Banco Real case shows how an emphasis... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
managers to "'personally' drive innovation and competitive advantage." Gerald Nanninga placed the blame on "infestation" (parasites that successful organizations attract) and "cannibalization" (fear of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Google's own Flight Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for online marketing strategies. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44724 Enhancing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
in prison, the St. Pierres prevailed, and ASC was standing tall as China's number-one fine wine importer by volume and value in 2013. ASC had developed a reputation for quality of product and service, beating out the competition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
strength in high precision coordinate measuring machines, a universal measuring tool that had been widely used since its introduction in the mid-1970s. The market faced a complex diversification of competition as metrology manufacturers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
competitive workforces and attract other industry; that clean water and renewable energy can reduce their costs and improve their products; and that well-housed citizens make better customers. Lagace: How can managers put the advice in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
great they are as individuals, reap the personal benefits of their position, and deftly blunt competition from potential inter-organizational rivals.” His point is that an age of knowledge sharing facilitated by networks negates the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
they will carve out more time for shopping and for sniffing out the best bargains. "What we observe suggests that households have fixed amounts of time to give to sites..." “Taken together,” the researchers conclude in their paper, “our results add up to a... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
resistance to their lobbying activities from the general public. These areas are known as "thin political markets" to distinguish them from more vibrant and competitive "thick" political processes (e.g., healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
"traditional" set of HBS cases that address a host of industries. What function does this firm perform? What are its economics? How can you deliver this function more efficiently? How can you build a competitive advantage against rivals?... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with professor Laura Morgan Roberts. 2. The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs In the newly released book On Competition, professor Michael E. Porter updates his classic... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
brutal, understanding of what needs to change if the company is to succeed in the competitive environment that lies ahead. The inside-outsider knows that if his or her vision of the way the world is headed is remotely right, then real... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
essential to develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human beings and inspiring leaders. Book: http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781609940072&PG=1&Type=AUTH&PCS=BKP Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne