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  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

research gives the field an advantage over other disciplines and will allow us to answer big questions, such as, "What explains the success and failure of entrepreneurs?" If business historians invest in reestablishing the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

If a strong, trustworthy keystone is present in the niche player's ecosystem, there may be no apparent reason for the niche player to connect to multiple platforms. However, because of the risk of keystone collapse and keystone hold-up, niche players may want to... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Mobile Energy Services Company

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
When Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap became CEO of the Scott Paper Co., the company owned a large, vertically integrated production facility in Mobile, Alabama. Dunlap sold part of the production facility, a cogeneration power plant (later known as Mobile Energy Services Co.), to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Investment; Projects; Vertical Integration; Energy Sources; Bonds; Ownership; Restructuring; Energy Industry; Alabama
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  • April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
  • Case

Verge Software (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Scott Rozic, CEO of start-up Verge Software, has just told his board that he is taking the company in a totally new direction, moving from enterprise knowledge management software to Internet direct marketing. This case covers the start-up of the business, and Rozic's... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

suggested that the benefit of separating the new venture had to do with securing resources for it. However, our research found that parent organizations invested roughly the same amount in integrated ventures as they did in independent... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 28 Apr 2025
  • Blog Post

How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs

Bowdoin College, and a former talent acquisition and management professional. Through her observations from both sides – the hired and the hiring – she’s detected a paradox that can frustrate all parties. “It’s costly to get new hires,” she says. “Yet for all that... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active... View Details
  • August 2001 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Doral Costa

By: William J. Poorvu, John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel and Amy Silverstein
Doral Costa is a proposed 277,803 square foot Class A office park development in Miami, FL. Trammell Crow Co. would like to develop this office park in joint venture with a partner. Samantha Spar, the acquisitions partner at Titan Associates, a large real estate... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Joint Ventures; Acquisition; Investment; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Fair Value Accounting; Construction; Property; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Miami
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  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

significant investment in bio-similars as a way to differentiate itself from its generic drug industry peers, has to negotiate with its parent company and the innovative pharma division on how best to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

phrase industrial internet. And there was nobody really to work with when we started. So you know, we invested money and things like that. So again, I go back to the point on stamina, where, in the case of... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

5,000 board members from around the world to find out. We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards. Although directors in certain industries are more cognizant of the threat of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

"In the United States, we embrace new technology with a huge amount of enthusiasm," he observes. "We develop a lexicon, rush to invest large sums of money and energy, and a phenomenon is born! Then, after a year of... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea

embarking on their second encore career. There were entomologists and investment bankers and fashion designers. It was the most diverse group I’d taught in a while. I have an underlying thesis in teaching “How to Create a Climate... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

More Alumni Books

Biography of William Treat (MBA ’47 Feb.) by Merle Drown (Hobblebush Books) Local Heroes: How Loch Fyne Oysters Embraced Employee Ownership and Business Success by David Erdal (MBA ’81) (Viking) High-Powered Investing All-in-One for... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such analyses. The Security and Exchange... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

in state industries—became a closed caste, an industrial elite with hereditary jobs, and with privileges and security far above that of their rural cousins. If anything, the gap between urban and rural identities became greater. And the... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

in several major cities. Ira A. Jackson (100th AMP), the executive vice president of BankBoston, is also finding a way to turn social ideals into good business practice. Locally, Jackson is guiding the bank in its efforts to provide jobs... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

responded to this news coverage. The researchers looked closely at firms that were located in areas where FNC was broadcast. The structure of the cable industry made it a useful component to the study, Heese explains. While cable... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting