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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
contend with the fact that patenting is highly concentrated in certain product categories and that this concentration has been shifting over time. Accounting for secular trends in innovative activities, we find that the impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
became a very popular category of desktop PCs. Hsinchu, Taiwan based MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company that unleashed a white-box market in mobile phone handsets by offering an innovative "complete solution" for 2.5G... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
worksheets in Exhibit 1 to analyze disruptive trends within the key categories discussed earlier. Select ideas for further evaluation: Now bring the individuals together. Working as a team, have each person share his or her analysis of... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
BREW, while outlining the new opportunities for Qualcomm in emerging categories such as tablet computers, displays, and new operating systems for smartphones. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711463-PDF-ENG View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by airlines. Building Effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
referred to this category as "treasure hunt" SKUs. Offers an opportunity to examine a company's business model, particularly since DG has been so successful competing with Wal-Mart where so many other retailers have not. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
chain economy.” Our research shows that by categorizing the economy into supply chain versus business-to-consumer industries, a different picture emerges. The supply chain industries are a distinct category of the economy that is... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
we find that gentrification, as measured by changes in the educational, age, and racial composition within a zip code, is strongly associated with increases in the numbers of grocery stores, cafes, restaurants, and bars, with little evidence of crowd-out of other View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six different categories of crime; these analyses accounted for a comprehensive set of control variables (e.g., city and year fixed effects, population, law enforcement) and survived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
rhetoric and symbolic activities in the process of creating new markets. This study analyzes how entrepreneurial firms use these cultural strategies to position themselves in a nascent market category they are creating. Using an inductive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
favor, says David J. Reibstein, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School, Philadelphia. By building primary demand—demand for a category of offerings, in addition to demand for a particular brand—Starbucks has given the entire... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
erroneously identified as the common thread of a firm's business. In reality, a given type of customer will frequently have a range of unrelated product missions or needs."16 Thus, for a firm to maintain its strategic focus, Ansoff suggested certain View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
differences. That reality, however, hasn't slowed the rising tide of annual college rankings from every corner of the world, rating schools in every category imaginable. Today we'll hear from Professor Bill Kirby about his case entitled... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
categories nationwide. Throughout, readers will encounter the challenges that Hirshberg, his colleagues, and his family confronted as they (all) worked to create a business with a firm commitment to both sustainability and high quality-a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
environment conditions. Both are most strongly associated with stronger economic outcomes, with lower impact on other dimensions of the New Growth Path. The third section creates a new dataset of cluster initiative intensity at the regional and cluster View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
decile of time, Ptrend < .0001) compared with qualitatively stable levels in the other hospitals; this reduction was driven largely by decreases in the minor severity (Ptrend < .0001), compensated (Ptrend < .0001), and environment (Ptrend < .0001) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace