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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms, examining the impact that smart,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1934217 Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions in Grand Strategy By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This paper proposes an approach for modeling strategic interactions that incorporates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service industry, his Houston View Details
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fast-moving technology businesses are tactical in nature: how and when do firms cooperate and compete with firms within their industry? How can small firms use their larger... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cofounder of the global investment firm GMO, recently observed in the context of governmental inaction on climate change, “We face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit maximization with little or no... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
teams adopting a new technology, and why some teams were able to learn faster than others. Monica Higgins has a wonderful book coming out that looks at career paths in biotech and, in particular, the role that one company has played in spawning chief executives of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
and nearly 100 fellows in the field. We have doubled in size each year, and plan to engage 1,000 fellows in the next five years. Is there something you're particulalry proud of? I am most proud of our commitment to diversity: To date,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
conditions and other factors. Through acquisitions and by building on its strengths, Martin and Giraud note, Club Med intends to double in size by 2003, operating as a services company that is active in leisure and entertainment. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
kitchen) “They were self-taught, and they were amazing. It really showed me the promise of the people of eastern Kentucky,” says Marietta, who later drew on the same talent pool to launch Mountain Tech Media, a digital marketing firm that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
this race. Jim Matheson is a senior lecturer at HBS, a special partner at Engine, a venture firm focused on tough tech, and a senior advisor and venture partner at Breakthrough Energy. He has spent the last 15 years of his career focused... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Norwood, Massachusetts. The biotech... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
a suitcase, and headed back to work. A pro bono study by several of the city's top consulting firms has estimated that the damage to New York City totals $83 billion. That figure may be low, some observers say, and of course it cannot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
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Unpacking Hidden Risk in the Trusted Treasury Market | Working Knowledge
Joshua Younger , in our Brookings paper, as well. If you think about the financial system, where these primary dealers are important for the intermediation of Treasuries, the Treasury supply is getting bigger and bigger, and growing faster than the View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
presence of iTunes has a negative impact on the size of p2p networks resulting in reduced congestion and more efficient file sharing. Better functioning p2p networks, in turn, result in more content exchange, affecting positively iPod... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
environment is much less rich than in other countries/sectors and in which managers are concerned about measuring the effectiveness of their commercial actions. Among the most immediate decisions they need to make is the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
were others he could work with to help put it on solid financial ground. BR: I called a friend of mine, a guy named Steve Kaplan. Steve is a partner in Fredrickson and Byron, a law firm here. So Steve joined me on this, and as we began... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA 1991). "Dani, I need your help," Cohen said. His private equity... View Details