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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

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Consumer-Brand Relationships

Susan M. Fournier is conducting extensive research into the relationships consumers form with brands. Her work builds on the premise that, although marketers espouse the notion of relationships in current thought and practice, none have theoretically maximized the... View Details

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

dominance and oppression reproduce structural inequalities in organizations. 2019 Symposium 04–05 APR 2019 The Courage of our Convictions Our 7th annual symposium is inspired by the way resistance movements such as #MeToo and... View Details

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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

were the biggest and richest organizations in the country, and then the world,” sociologist Charles Perrow argues. “They set organizational forms that would dominate all of industry for the next century.” 7 The Pre-Industrial Era British... View Details

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

came to career advancement in a field still dominated by men. Despite companies’ ongoing efforts to diversify, women make up fewer than a quarter of US tech workers. Meanwhile, women in technical roles are half as likely as men to be... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

14 Jul 2010
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From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Keywords: by Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing

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Finance Doctoral Students - Faculty & Research

Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Sage Belz Jorge Colmenares Shlok Goyal Helene Hall Catherine Huang Baiyun Jing Nathan Kaplan Justin Katz Iris Li Shira Li Fanele Mashwama Laura Nicolae Saketh Prazad View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

support them. That kind of uncertainty poses a challenge for investors and tech companies alike, as whoever first develops a winning solution is likely to dominate the market—and everyone else will struggle to keep up. “Venture... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

As global companies increasingly adopt a dominant language, usually English, which all employees must use to simplify communications and increase collaboration, many are dismayed to find an unexpected outcome. Results are exactly opposite... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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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

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry

2012
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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

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14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

process." In the end he made us all better defensive players because of it. For hiring managers, one lesson is to understand the dominant type of motivation supported by your corporate culture and hire people who thrive in those... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

18 Jun 2024
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Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

05 Jun 2023
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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

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

12 Dec 2005
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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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

29 Mar 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

October 2014
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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

Keywords: Consulting Firms; McKinsey; Strategy; Consulting Industry; North America