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  • 16 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination within Organizational Studies

Keywords: by Corinne Bendersky & Kathleen L. McGinn

    William E. Fruhan

    Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University.  He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of... View Details

    Keywords: aircraft; airline; chemical; electronics; grocery; medical supplies; oil ＆ gas; pharmaceuticals; retailing; steel
    • 02 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

    When TV Nova launched in 1992 as the first new television channel in post-communist Czechoslovakia, few might have imagined the joint-venture drama unfolding behind the scenes. Distinguished for bringing Baywatch, soccer matches, and sexy weather forecasters to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 19 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

    What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the rights of its citizens? In research... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

    Competitive advantage. Corporate strategy. The competitive advantage of nations. All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter, whose two decades of research on these and related topics have resulted in... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
    • January 2021
    • Article

    Chain Stability in Trading Networks

    By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
    We show that in general trading networks with bilateral contracts, a suitably adapted chain stability concept (Ostrovsky, 2008) is equivalent to stability (Hatfield and Kominers, 2012; Hatfield et al., 2013) if all agents' preferences are fully substitutable and... View Details
    Keywords: Matching; Trading Networks; Chain Stability; Stability; Competitive Equilibria; Full Substitutability; Laws Of Aggregate Supply And Demand; Contracts; Market Design; Balance and Stability
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    • June 2001
    • Supplement

    GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)

    By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
    Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) has proved successful at GE. Yet, when Michael McIlwrath, new counsel at an Italian subsidiary, attempted to translate it to his company, problems arose. He had to gain internal acceptance, and explain the concept of early mediation to a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Globalization; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Conflict of Interests; Complexity; Italy; New York (state, US)
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    • September 1995 (Revised October 1996)
    • Case

    Sunbeam Television (A)

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and E. Scott Lathrop
    Sunbeam Television, owner of a television station in Miami (a Fox affiliate), buys Channel 7 (a CBS affiliate) in Boston. They bring to the Boston station the concepts and ideas of their Miami news product--that is, a crisp, content-based design rather than one... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Change; Decisions; Design; Television Entertainment; Product; Motivation and Incentives; Value; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Boston
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    • September 1989
    • Background Note

    Performance Curves: Costs, Prices, and Value

    By: Robert J. Dolan and Benson P. Shapiro
    Explains the concept of a family of performance curves. The most well known is the price/performance curve relating the prices of items in a product line to their performance. Also discusses the cost/performance curve and its impact on product positioning, product line... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Price; Product Positioning; Performance; Competition; Value
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    • October 1988 (Revised November 2006)
    • Background Note

    Aspects of Sales Management: An Introduction

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Discusses certain general issues that affect sales-management requirements in most companies: 1) the nature of the salesperson's "boundary role" in the organization, and 2) the relevance and limits of compensation policies as a key means of affecting the salesperson's... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management
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    • 15 Sep 2017
    • News

    Build Your CORe as a Global Thinker

      Rohit Deshpande

      Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
      • 30 Mar 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Professional Networks in China and America

      Most managers understand at some level the wisdom of the adage, "It's not what you know; it's who you know." Indeed, building the right professional relationships is critical for business success. In China, relationships are even more important to getting... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 21 Jul 2006
      • Op-Ed

      Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

      The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. Left unaddressed in the trial were many financial transactions and accounting decisions of... View Details
      Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
      • 17 Jul 2006
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

      Following the dot-com bust at the turn of the century, the technology business went through a gloomy period, 2001-2002, when innovation dried up, MBAs looked for careers in finance, and investors put their funds in a holding pattern. "Technology became... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education
      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice

      Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Don A. Moore; Consulting
      • TeachingInterests

      Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor

      This course is designed to impart to students who plan to become investors an understanding of firms' operations, and to students, including entrepreneurs, planning to operate companies an understanding of how to interface with investors. The course also... View Details

      • Article

      The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and Its Determinants

      By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Elena Novelli
      We distinguish between two forms of appropriability: primary appropriability—effectiveness in exploiting inventions as problem-solving mechanisms and capturing a share of their profits—and generative appropriability—effectiveness in exploiting inventions as concepts... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Management; Profit Management; Product Management; Resource Management; Strategic Alliances (Business); Strategic Planning; Innovation and Management
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      • 30 Nov 2013
      • News

      Yahoo serves up the same old recipe with Couric pick

        The Store Is Dead—Long Live the Store.

        In this article, we pursue two interconnected themes: the expansion of online-first retailers into offline stores that serve the purpose of “supercharging” customer value, and the transformation of the stores... View Details