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- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
family started asking me about drug issues,” he recalls. “If I had only focused on the algebra and grammar associated with their homework assignments, I’d have missed such a core component of their story,... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
customers and business partners). Q: Could you elaborate more on this point that firms might choose to follow the rules when they cross-list on a U.S. exchange not because... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
wasn't really sure what I would like. As a result, I gravitated toward those jobs that everyone else seemed to want. If everybody else wanted certain jobs, I thought, they must be worth pursuing. Once I was actually in a job, I focused... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
programs providing the primary source of future management talent are focusing only on skills and knowledge, are they short-changing future employers? Do we face a future attitude shortage? What, if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
Kanter, an authority on organizational change who advises major corporations and governments on these very issues, lays out a blueprint to help readers get a handle on work,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
developing proven molecules from strategic partners to leapfrog competition and create large molecule biologics in India. The company understood that its transition from an API to an innovation-led company focused View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
owe their life's blood to PARC—Adobe, SynOptics, VLSI, and 3Com, for example—together recorded a market value last year five or six times greater than that of mother Xerox. "By focusing too narrowly on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
decide whether to compete on the ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty, but business enterprises have rarely been identified as significant independent actors. This book argues that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 1996
- Case
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.--1990
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Michael Dearing
Howard Lester, chairman and CEO, has just completed a second offering of common stock in Williams-Sonoma, Inc. ($218.2 million 1989 sales). Having targeted $500 million in retail sales, Lester's challenge is to: 1) prioritize growth investments in five existing catalog... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Alignment; Customer Value and Value Chain; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry
Koehn, Nancy F., and Michael Dearing. "Williams-Sonoma, Inc.--1990." Harvard Business School Case 797-019, July 1996.
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career as an Associate Consultant at one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
still felt limited in what we could explore. Our process included several meetings to synthesize the ideas into four categories, three rounds of voting on the best categories, two prototypes to test out our favorite ideas and countless... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
with minimal impact on aggregate sales quantity. While this research focused specifically on a flash sales setting, they believe it could be useful for any retailer that needs... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
that stands between the consumer and the provider. You don't see this problem in food service - where restaurants pile on needless amounts of food just to charge for more of it. If customers don't like being... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
society, extroversion is encouraged, developed, and recognized in so many ways that introverts—with their abilities to work alone, sometimes focusing on complex problems, not relying View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Working PapersParallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract This paper presents econometric evidence of two independent effects of adding more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2019
- Article
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi. "Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis." Journal of Political Economy 127, no. 2 (April 2019): 508–559. (See Online Appendix. Replications files available here. Also NBER Working Paper 21582.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi. "Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-028, September 2015. (Updated October 2017. See Online Appendix. Also NBER Working Paper 21582. Forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy.)
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
are opportunities for large corporations to attract interest outside of the traditional MBA functions and into roles focused on energy and sustainability. Those roles can be hard to find for students, but... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
in context by a discussion of how during Jurlique's growth as a successful premium brand there had been substantial changes in market position, in part associated with shifts of ownership. At times the brand had been focused View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne