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- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Shine, Stern & Partners) and the buyer (MINI USA) and asks them to develop a sales strategy and a buying strategy for advertising services. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508043 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
pure e-tailer as well as two competing multichannel retailers. Even though self-matching is likely to reduce a retailer's profits, with some consumers paying the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
highly bureaucratic, multilayered organizations that companies are using to execute their plans. There is so much pressure to realize short-term results that middle managers are consumed by making this month's numbers rather than building... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
expanded, while disagreements on the terms of natural gas supplies have been resolved. The case describes the impact of the interplay of great power politics, domestic political considerations, and economic factors on the efforts of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
that have ownership and control rights in the SOE. Building on Vernon, we argue that the SOE can break free from this power imbalance and establish resource independence from other state actors by becoming a multinational firm and/or by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
because their market power allows them to charge higher service fees than domestic banks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-025.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Armstrong Investigation Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We propose that differences in how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
positive values, do you see foresee an increasing risk for similar problems at other organizations? A: Many studies have shown the power of meaningful values to energize employees, providing them with a sense of purpose and identity in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
if today's 40 percent personal savings rate is to be reduced, thereby unleashing cash to fuel new growth in consumer spending. Creating this domestic safety net will be crucial to enabling Alibaba to grow even faster. But don't look for... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Union is funded through consumer subscriptions to Consumer Reports, and through private grants. This model has several advantages. By directly linking its output to consumer... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank borrowing and investments by small,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
words, create a better end-to-end consumer experience, with the result being a larger, deeper pool of data to draw on and drive progress in new therapies. Data and analytics “It takes an abundance of data to answer the questions that... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
consumer trend or technological development may be emerging in Germany or Japan, not your home market," Bartlett says. "Having eyes and ears around the world is critical, as is having the response capabilities to tap into the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
economics research, business academics and managers will have the power to substantially improve both the practice of business and the welfare of society. My hope is that we will use that power responsibly.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
search affiliated sellers (stores). There are three motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) trading off higher total consumer traffic for higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
consumer PC in a very big way. (Yoffie is a board member of Intel, whose chips power most PCs and who has tried to woo Apple as a customer.—Ed.) Q: Consumer PC? So Apple would... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne