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  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

logic into the business process setting to find that leaders were far more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of internet-based e-buying. However, they were commensurately less likely to adopt the more strategically sensitive and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

investors and investment funds. Furthermore, it was creating a network of microfinance banks through a microfinance holding company. However, in a context of rapid change and explosive growth of the microfinance sector, Jacques Attali,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

corporations, the CEO is selected by a higher authority (the board of directors) acting on behalf of the shareholders, which gives him strong positional power to shape the company's direction, strategically and organizationally. The PSF... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 13 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

issues, dynamic pricing; and automated vehicles. Improving mass transit systems that connect to other forms of transportation. Making the US easier for foreign visitors to enter. An infrastructure bank to make targeted strategic View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

systems are designed to track profitability only at the market and segment levels. Consequently, many managers are often forced to make important customer decisions based on hunches and imprecise information. Systems that enable firms to compare their View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

Abstract—Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as “either/or” choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

  Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

often buttress the existing social contract. When the wrong minds meet. Sometimes problems arise not because of cultural differences but instead because the right people are not involved in negotiations. For example, when two CEOs negotiate a View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
  • Case

Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

partaking of many in strategy making. The paper contributes to theory by relating the current findings to the literature on the connection between commitment and performance and on the strategic management literature that focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

other economic environments. Productivity Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities Author:Kristina Steffenson McElheran Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 21, 2007

do with an East Coast distribution center that is losing money but may be useful strategically. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807061 Prosper Marketplace, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 807-074 Describes a set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused alternative View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

around the strategic direction that the company is taking would require giving different types of information to board members and having different discussions in board meetings, but the effort to revamp the meeting process and agenda... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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