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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
integrated downstream buyer. But a vertical merger with a larger buyer helps more to facilitate upstream collusion than a similar merger with a smaller buyer. This formalizes the idea expressed in the U.S. and EU Non-Horizontal Merger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Internal Problems By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
1998 as part of its management of an apparently ongoing crisis. The reaction of the international financial community—and some of my students—was severe. The capital controls were labeled "unorthodox" and "heretical," although no View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
captured during its daily interactions with shareholders and market analysts. As a first step, he put a formalized process in place to collect and present it in a more systematic way. The team, for example, keeps a record of investor... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
more formal procedural change. And fourth, managerial support and leadership is crucial. Even when implanted and implemented well, these new technologies will certainly bring with them new challenges. These tools may well reduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School trains many future business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
innovation? Through a formal simulation model, we show that an open approach to innovation allows the firm to discover combinations of product features that would be hard to envision under integration. However, when partners have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
minimal attention from historians and sociologists of science, whose analysis of scientific infrastructure has instead focused on formal scientific communication through journal articles and online forums, the formation of new disciplines... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Happold developed its first formal internal training programs under the name of "Archimedes Academy." The first two programs were (1) the Job Leader Program, targeted for senior engineers and designed to help them be more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
and how they should be governed. In contrast, whereas design involves structural aspects of the channel, management involves the formal or informal rules that govern the day-to-day behavior of the various channel members (including the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Industry By: Park, K. Francis, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We examine how heterogeneity in customers’ multi-homing tendencies affects a platform’s response to new entrants in its market. We develop a formal model to generate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
a knowledge management system to optimally leverage employee-generated know-how. In particular, we consider the following practical strategic questions for the manager of a knowledge-intensive firm: should her firm develop a formal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
apparatus of the organizations. Many of the concepts and ideas in this traditional model are shaped by a long history of governance failure and organizational pathology. It suffices as a solution to the challenge of meeting legal compliance standards through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of the House) Sam Rayburn,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
models, not just incremental adjustments or extensions. Institutional economics can help prospective and established managers recognize the role of formal and informal institutions and enable them to work around the "institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
countries. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf Open vs. Integrated Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Confinement Authors:Esteve Almirall and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Abstract We present a simple formal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
and we also present a detailed case study on Tomogorō Ono, a key developer of salt production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne