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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
stores. Instead of simply reducing the number of new large stores entering a market, the entry barriers created the incentive for large retail chains to invest in smaller and more centrally located formats,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
private firms (firms incorporated before 1985). Sectors dominated by state-owned and traditional private firms before 1988-1990, with assets, sales, and profits representing shares higher than 50%, generally remained so in 2005. The exception to this broad pattern is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
PublicationsManaging the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010) Abstract Developing new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
schools seeking to hire new professors. In the stories that follow, the Bulletin presents four members of the next generation of business education leaders, a group as diverse in their backgrounds and interests as they are committed to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data from a convenience View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
endeavored for specificity. For example, when possible, Transparent Value strove to determine what the company needed to do in its business activities to achieve the required revenues. Called "business performance requirements," these could include the number... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
stores are multi-sided platforms (MSPs). We propose a definition that provides a more precise notion of MSPs by requiring that they enable direct interactions between the multiple customer types that are affiliated with them. Several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
linkages he saw and analyzed. “Al Chandler had one of the best darn smiles this side of the Continental Divide." —Nancy F. Koehn Second, he wrote about the past but this work was always anchored by his own eye on the present. Al... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
At first blush, the two-year-old online start-up Groupon seems a bit audacious. For starters, there's the news that the deal-of-the-day website turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google last month. Then there's the company's... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
learning job-relevant information from the news or social media." Employees get the news first. Nothing erodes trust for employees like learning job-relevant information from the View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
an empty lot. To the east stands a vacant building; to the north, a liquor store with iron bars on its windows. In short, it could be any corner in any struggling neighborhood in the United States. Yet for Dlodlo, it might as well be the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary product. Innovation through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
choice, now that startups like Tilden and the titans of the beverage industry are taking a fresh look at what a NA beverage can be and making use of new innovations in brewing technology. Low-alcohol beer has been around as long as humans... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarzijan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701873.do February 2015 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Improving View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
and New Year’s, and why I always had to bring back a bunch of gifts for family after travelling. Over the years, however, I have become less focused on differentiating the Filipino experience from the AAPI experience and, instead, have... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
outside investor who changes the company's trajectory and who brings in a new chief executive. Later, tensions rise between the two founders as their strategic visions diverge and as the company grows. Wozniak has now learned some... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
in upstate New York with his father, a business executive, his mother, a homemaker, and a younger sister. When MacDonald was 12, he fell ill for many months with scarlet fever and mastoiditis. Confined to his home, he survived the boredom... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
rededicating themselves to improving the value they deliver to their patients: better outcomes and lower costs. Time-driven activity-based costing offers the potential for clinicians to redesign their care processes toward that end. This costing approach, however, is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
department stores and a new hypermarket—Nagesh was proud of the way the company had taken retail from its roots in simple transactions to a complete "experience" defined by the luxurious ambiance,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace