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  • 10 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

you can make money in many creative industries by selling specialized products to niche markets identified via the Internet. For example, the new CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceuticals giant, likens the search for blockbusters to... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

constraints of vertical integration. As with IDe or deNovis, they create system solutions by combining their specialized assets with complementary products and platforms provided by other niche players and... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

mass customization. In the midst of all this added complexity, he said, the large, vertically integrated organization, involved with everything from Research and Development to customer delivery, is passing from the business landscape.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

founders are faced with the challenge of how to maintain growth. Do they vertically integrate more into the back-end, or should they try to do acquisitions in adjacent markets? The case is intended to be used in conjunction with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that combines measures of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

challenges of innovating in the Android value network in which firms specialized in only one part of the value chain, yet collectively they had to compete with a more vertically integrated Apple and its... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

took only a portion of each bird produced and OSI had to develop a go-to-market strategy for the rest. The case describes the opportunities and challenges of operating in China and raises questions involving vertical integration,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

decomposed welfare effects of multinational production. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-111.pdf Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

property right allocations, we find that studio-financed films receive superior marketing investments compared to independent films and that these investments fully mediate the positive effect of vertical integration on film revenues. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

collaborative organization and knowledge management? A: Many companies have focused on knowledge management the last couple of years. While that has been a good start, it is only one part of the overall challenge of creating an effective collaborative organization. KM... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

variation in the degree of horizontal diversity, vertical (or hierarchical) diversity, and external (or client) diversity within each team. We find that ethnic diversity among teammates decreases team performance, while diversity along... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human capital across several generations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

potential problem and then solidified the relationship with Dr. Mak. We then identified and addressed regulatory and practical issues like consent, access to images, and annotation and development of the video teaching tool. LISH researchers View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when purchased together. Good A is supplied by a monopolist (e.g., Microsoft) and there is competition in the B goods from vertically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

several key features of intermediated supply chains. We complement the model's insights with observations from a numerical study. Results: In the absence of an e-intermediary, auctions cause farmers to either overproduce or underproduce compared to their ideal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required," he observes. "Compared with operations, marketing, and strategy, we don't really know as much about how to manage research or value it, especially when... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

be a tough year. How could Ilkbahar both try to extend HBC’s special formula for success to Cyprus while maintaining high motivation at the Fethiye installation? The case describes the forces that shape the hotel industry's structure,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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