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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
China: Driving in the Gray Zone (B) Starting in 2014, for two years Uber had fought an intense, costly battle for China’s ridesharing market with well-financed and well-connected domestic Chinese competitors. During this time, Uber also had to respond to an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
productivity. Ideally, you need to make your technical staff aware of the tradeoffs and the technical/competitive landscape without building barriers to creativity. One thing is to appoint a technical gatekeeper that will keep close watch...
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- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
debt or equity, saying 'I want to invest in my local bakery or dry cleaner that I know and support,' " he says. No matter how crowdfunding emerges following the SEC decision-process this year, it's likely to play a role in the funding View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to live up to them, one that thoughtfully positions itself within the greater landscape of business, government, and society at large. Doesn’t that motivate employees to be at their best? Companies face choices, and their managements must...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
(Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the credit ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower-quality ratings from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Running a business in today’s business landscape gets more difficult every year. Given the level of competition and market ups and downs, it seems one has to either sacrifice one’s personal life for the job or lose everything. But...
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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
led to the emergence of new industrial clusters around the world. In this paper, we examine how "first nature" location fundamentals and "second nature" agglomeration economies jointly determine the global landscape of...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Herzlinger observes. "So there are no bathrooms, nor meals served, in the rooms. You have to walk to satisfy your basic needs. Your recovery—indeed, the entire Shouldice experience—is advanced by such fundamental inducements, as well as by attractive ones, such as...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
rooms. You have to walk to satisfy your basic needs. Your recovery — indeed, the entire Shouldice experience — is advanced by such fundamental inducements, as well as by attractive ones, such as the beautifully landscaped grounds that...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
creative destruction move so fast and forcefully across the landscape as that ushered in by the financial crisis of 2008. Beginning in the United States, this crisis took the capital markets and the larger global banking system to the...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
entrepreneurs are critical to innovation and the creation of the next companies like Google, they do not make up a large part of the small businesses community who are seeking loans. Lagace: How does the US small business landscape look...
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- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the...
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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Chen Abstract The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
consistent and emotional brand worldwide. With its primary core customer currently the “serious” runner, and its innovation strategy geared towards high-end performance, pursuing these objectives in light of the fiercely competitive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
focuses on incentives, responsibilities, and structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure which did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive landscape with its superior pricing...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
find that changes in the local business landscape is a leading indicator of housing price changes and that the entry of Starbucks (and coffee shops more generally) into a neighborhood predicts gentrification. Each additional Starbucks...
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Dina Gerdeman