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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
by-product produced is exactly the amount that can be produced using the entire waste stream). The operational synergy in the joint production process is manifested as one of two subsidies: the by-product is subsidized by the disposal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth (HBS MBA... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
bundle—known as an Extra Value Meal—for cheaper than the products would cost if purchased individually. “Bundling is pervasive in several markets, and it works in many cases” But those same customers might not View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, the paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers are encouraged to use this paper to build sophisticated, targeted research designs that will add value to the growing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
overconfidence. Exaggerating synergies and ignoring integration costs Synergy is the idea that once merged, the value of two companies will be greater than the sum of the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
School, defines these multi-sided markets as platforms that serve two or more distinct groups of customers who value each other's participation. Examples: EBay provides markets for both buyers and sellers, dating club clients are both men... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
explores a method of value creation through exploiting synergies that exist in an environment where there is diversity. The context of the case is a farm where biodiversity is leveraged to create value. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
in India, as well as HBS Deans Wallace Donham and Donald David. It shows that there were quite different drivers that led business leaders to advocate corporate responsibility. Often strong religious and spiritual values were the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Stage 1, the CEO leads the change agenda and drives it from the top to reinforce the mission, values and vision. Leadership sets the ambitious vision and stretch targets. In Stage 2, the executive leader validates the strategy map as an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
resources-processes-values framework. Resources refer to tangible and intangible assets, processes deal with activities that turn resources into goods and services, and values underpin decisions employees make and how they make them. (See... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52575 The Cross Section of Bank Value By: Egan, Mark, Stefan Lewellen, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We study the determinants of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
They're attracting the attention of venture capital firms, who are starting their own "venture catalyst" experiments. They're catching the eye of potential startups, looking for ways to get to market faster and with more value... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
its no-frills offering. LAN came to that insight by analyzing the major assets that the models share and the compatibility of the models' operational resources and capabilities. It recognized that the more the models have in common, the more likely they are to generate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
volume. The distinguishing operational characteristic of by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
a fundamental rethinking of how entrepreneurship works. The Strategic Way to Go to Market Too often channel strategies develop at the last minute—when a product is ready to go to market. But this haphazard approach leaves a lot of efficiencies and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
has received substantial attention in the strategy literature, where a number of qualitative approaches to describe, represent, and evaluate business models have been proposed. We contend that while helpful to understand a firm's overall logic of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne