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  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

entrepreneurs. “It’s never a one stakeholder story.” Taking this longer view, she says, makes it easier to see beyond clusters as self-contained and localized to their more nuanced role as interactive spaces that foster communication and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

courteous reply that he couldn't make that date as it was the height of the duck-hunting season, which he couldn't possibly miss. It was an eye-opening moment for me. I had thought of Al as this ultimate hard-working and purposeful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

and then engaging in trade for everything else. In his now-famous example, Ricardo imagined that Portugal was more productive than England in making both wine and cloth. Specifically, he assumed the... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

second-grade products or a low-status producer that consistently produces first-grade products." For answers, Malter turned to the wine industry and an investigation of whether France's prestigious 1855 grand cru classification of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

80% of the wineries in the U.S. break even or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who specializes in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this innovation make sense, and is it practical?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

at all. In many cases, in fact, the state actually hurts innovation in order to benefit the Party. Take the case of Grace Vineyard, a private winery that makes the best wine in China. "And yet, it has to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

  PublicationsProspects for the Professions in China Authors:William P. Alford, William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, eds Publication:Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

facts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-101.pdf Cases & Course Materials Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1 Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson HoutHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

with our younger talent about ideas they are proposing for our company’s strategic direction? Personally, should I be making use of one or more of these apps that I don’t understand? Twenty-five years ago, there was a sense at General... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

Chile's largest wine producer faces a price versus value positioning problem. Its highest quality wines are not priced competitively at retail because "Made in Chile" connotes great value and low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

time." "Today, people are used to getting information when they are doing something else. Today, deadlines are just what they say—they're dead. Old wine matures and gets better, but old news is just late. We're into real-time... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making our apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "merely an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

tend to enjoy export success in product segments for which their domestic consumers favor high levels of quality. French wines succeed internationally because they enjoy domestic market regulations that promote demand for quality... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Alzheimer's, MS, and Huntington's) and do so by encouraging collaboration among researchers in the HMS community. When Ivinson takes the helm in 2001, he finds a dysfunctional center with little organization or structure. In addition, he has little formal authority to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative marginal costs, as would arise... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

From Coercion to Excitement Authors:Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider Abstract We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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