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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
of the French firms which initially dominated the cinema industry. By the 1920s the industry, now concentrated in Southern California, was able to benefit from the size of its home market and its control of distribution markets to View Details
- 01 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat
Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
- 2023
- Book
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia
By: Meg Rithmire
Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia
Rithmire, Meg. Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- 29 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
- October 2014
- Case
McKinsey & Company, 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2012, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) was the world's premier management consultancy, providing advice to CEO's and top executives of leading companies around the globe. Many consulting firms were bigger but few could match the reputation McKinsey had built over more... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- HBS Seminar
John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
Dominating Leaders Kill Teams What do you think? Do you run a great team meeting? Do you have ideas on how to improve the team meetings you attend? Share your pro tips in the comments below. View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
dominant player in mobile computing. "If iTunes had been available for the Mac only, it would have always remained a niche product and nothing more," says Yoffie. As that example illustrates, even brilliant CEOs make mistakes... View Details
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
appreciated Jenny Odell’s thesis that “doing nothing” offers us several useful “tools,” including those of repair (personal reflection and recovery), “a sharpened ability to listen”—a critical resource in a world dominated by telling and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Vicarious Learning in Organizations
To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details
- 2012
- Chapter
Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM
By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
Bresnahan, Timothy F., Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Discerning Complements from Substitutes Featured Exercises Create a customer journey map to discover complementary products and services 5 hrs Module 3 Competing with Network Effects Explore the three types of network effects, their impact on WTP, and how to compete... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
platform ecosystem by adding new sides and platform functions that might be valuable to the existing sides and therefore create positive synergies (and dominant firms!). Q: You draw a distinction between two-sided platforms and... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Government, World History RI Lisa Pacitto Providence Career and Technical Academy Providence, RI UT Gayle Painter Provo Adult Education Provo, UT NJ Dominic Palmeri Leonia High School Leonia, NJ PA Amy Palo Cornell High School Coraopolis,... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
value created for shareholders. Agency theory ascends It isn’t much of an exaggeration to say that the “Friedman Doctrine” triggered a half-century of dominance for “agency theory” in corporate governance. Adherence to the concept has led... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
it in capsule form, and added tamper-evident packaging even though those steps could have been used against J&J as an admission of guilt in a lawsuit. When Intel first became dominant in its product market, top management instituted... View Details