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  • 2005
  • Article

Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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  • May 2008 (Revised June 2008)
  • Case

Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a vast music library, over the ensuing decades the Muzak franchise organization expanded geographically. Despite a history of innovation, by the late 1990s Muzak... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Music Industry
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  • 09 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

leaders fit in? The group's recently published work identifies three areas that capitalize on business's strengths and result in the greatest returns: Influencing policy. "We know that policy often stands in the way of innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate networks that influenced global economic relations, peace, and democracy in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2013
  • Article

Commitment and Behavior Change: Evidence from the Field

By: Katie Baca-Motes, Amber Brown, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth A. Keenan and Leif D. Nelson
Influencing behavior change is an ongoing challenge in psychology, economics, and consumer behavior research. Building on previous work on commitment, self-signaling, and the principle of consistency, a large, intensive field experiment (N = 2,416) examined the effect... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Marketing
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  • Article

From TV to Web: Content Strategies for Ads That Drive Online Sales

By: Thales S. Teixeira
Consumers have become avid media multitaskers, moving seamlessly between their TVs and digital devices. Shorter TV commercials have reduced both the quantity and quality of consumer attention during prime-time viewing hours. In this new media environment, can TV... View Details
Keywords: TV Advertising; Multitasking; Infotainment; Television; Prime Time; Advertising; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS)

    Together with Prof. Daniel F. Spulber (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), I edit the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), the leading academic journal on the economics of strategy. JEMS is based at Harvard Business... View Details
    • Web

    Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

    analysis techniques to solve real-world business challenges and drive informed decision-making. 8 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by September18 $1,850 Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how View Details
    • Article

    Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement

    Among historians, Alfred Chandler's influence is by far the greatest, as he has affected economics, sociology, and business administration. Chandler never took short cuts, never stinted, and never published until he was satisfied that he had done his very best.... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Success; Books; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Economic Growth; Ethics; Knowledge Sharing; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Fair Value Accounting
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    • July 2000
    • Background Note

    Industry Transformation

    By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
    One of the steepest challenges a strategist faces is to navigate his or her company through a period of industry transformation--an era of rapid and wholesale changes in industry structure. This note considers how periods of transformation typically unfold. It then... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry
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    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    at Wells Fargo (2016), bribery at Odebrecht (2016), sexual harassment at Uber (2017), misuse of personal data at Facebook (2018), airliner safety at Boeing (2019), fraudulent financial reporting at Wirecard (2020), opioid marketing at... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    raise a company's productivity, which is influenced by local assets and the presence of like firms, institutions, and infrastructure that surround it. Key Concepts Clusters increase productivity and operational efficiency. Clusters... View Details
    • 28 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

    The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • Working Paper

    AI in Disguise—How AI-generated Ads' Visual Cues Shape Consumer Perception and Performance

    By: Yannick Exner, Jochen Hartmann, Oded Netzer and Shunyuan Zhang
    Generative AI’s recent advancements in creating content have offered vast potential to transform the advertising industry. This research investigates the impact of generative AI-enabled visual ad creation on real-world advertising effectiveness. For this purpose, we... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; AI and Machine Learning; Advertising; Consumer Behavior; Advertising Industry
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    • 29 Oct 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Lynn Wu, Wharton

      Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It

      Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity—all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer... View Details

      • November 2007
      • Supplement

      Differences at Work: Allie (C)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
      In Differences at Work: (C) HBS Case No. 9-408-056 Allie decides not to pursue a sexual harassment charge and instead remedies the situation by transferring to the marketing division in her company. She reflects on how powerless the situation made her feel and how it... View Details
      Keywords: Emotions; Ethics; Working Conditions; Rank and Position; Power and Influence
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      • Web

      Middle East & North Africa - Global

      the Group’s revenues still came from the Saudi market and its core telecom business, and there was no major appreciable change in stc’s share price after five years since the revised strategy’s launch. May 2025 Case Boutiqaat: View Details
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
      This paper investigates how taxes influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities... View Details
      Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Portfolio; Government Legislation; Taxation; United States
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      • 31 Mar 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: March 31, 2009

      and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace