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- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
considering JVs. Cynthia D. Churchwell: You and your colleagues found that companies are increasingly willing to "go it alone" without local partners. Did these results surprise you? Mihir Desai: Given the popular rhetoric on the importance of View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Alliance for Social Justice, Amy’s commitment to her newfound purpose strains family ties. As she immerses herself in exciting new opportunities, both professional and intimate, Josh grapples with the harsh reality that their marriage... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge fund activist, Pershing Square had quietly amassed a 9.7% stake in Allergan prior to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Go-Jek announced it was mulling a partnership with Blue Bird to allow users to hail and pay for taxis through its app. Such an alliance would likely smooth over ruffled feathers at Blue Bird and with the regulators. About the same time,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
facing several acute problems: a conflict between his director of marketing and his director of field operations; a dramatic increase in prices by a key supplier; and a major strategic alliance that does not seem to be moving forward.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 1993 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Environment and International Trade
During the 1990s, environmental activists became interested in trade issues for the first time. Whereas GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, had previously been the province of trade specialists, a new poster popular among environmentalists depicted the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Policy; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Globalization; International Relations; Conflict of Interests
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Environment and International Trade." Harvard Business School Case 794-018, September 1993. (Revised October 1994.)
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its effort to develop anti-aging therapeutics? And, should it in-license a second drug development candidate? Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 1998
- Case
Compaq, 1998
By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
In 1997, Compaq Computer Corp. had become a $25 billion powerhouse. It had accomplished its revenue growth projections, successfully made a number of strategic acquisitions, and increased its gross margins, principally by moving up market into servers, workstations,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coalition of five indigenous communities forged an alliance with a group of domestic and international NGOs to build their case against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
domestic investment and FDI relative to contractual methods of alliances between foreign firms and domestic firms." One of the reasons why labor-intensive FDI was more important in Singapore and Malaysia in the 1970s and 1980s, he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
started, you've been working with the State of Georgia to help them shape their strategic plan. Can you talk a little bit about how that's going? Langford: That organization is the Substance Abuse Research Alliance that I created, and it... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
digital turnaround was Justin Smith, a young, up-and-coming media professional with the ability to forge new alliances between editorial content and technology. “That recruitment was hard,” he recalls. The two met for dinner in 2007 at... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
business strategy is closely tied to its research strategy, which emphasizes extensive internal discovery and development capabilities leading to organic growth along with explicit external alliances and collaborations to supplement its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Companies were hyper-responsive to meeting the needs of all their sister companies. Clusters are based on informal relationships among firms. When firms are concentrated in a given area, firms can get the benefits of collaboration and frequent interchange without the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the literature via comparative analysis of the potential contributions of two voluntary sustainability certification programs for artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM): Fairtrade... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Product Manager at Microsoft and later Vice President at Parallels. Corey was elected to the Cyber Threat Alliance Board of Directors and the Massachusetts Cybersecurity Strategy Council and is a former Board Member at The Home for Little... View Details