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This article highlights several important dimensions of planning for exit from strategic alliances and also offers several examples of the disastrous consequences of inadequate exit-planning. While many companies fall into the trap of having no exit plan, other... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Strategy

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winter 1995
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How to Manage an IT Outsourcing Alliance

By: F. W. McFarlan and R. L. Nolan

Keywords: Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Alliances

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July–August 1994
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Collaborative Advantage: The Art of Alliances

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Alliances

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February 2008 (Revised November 2008)
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Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics Joint Development Alliances

By: Willy Shih, Gary Pisano and Andrew A. King

IBM's "Radical Collaboration" model has been an innovative approach to meeting the challenges of the huge R&D and capital investments that are needed to stay competitive in the global semiconductor industry. This model has required a rethinking of what is proprietary,... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Investment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry

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August 2007
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Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances

Keywords: Finance; Contracts; Science; Strategy; Alliances; Biotechnology Industry

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Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances

By: Josh Lerner and Dan Elfenbein

We explore the relationship between exclusivity and state-contingent control rights using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. We find that stronger exclusivity arrangements are associated with more frequent usage of contingent control rights. For... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Governance Controls; Internet and the Web; Ownership

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August 2024
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Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic

By: Susanna Gallani, Karen L. Sedatole and Sarah Mehta

Set in March 2024, this case is about CWC Alliance (CWC), a nonprofit working to prevent opioid addiction in the U.S. Founder Cammie Wolf Rice launched CWC in 2018 after her son, Christopher Wolf, died of a heroin overdose. Wolf’s dependence on opioids stemmed from a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta

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2000
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Strategic Alliances and Technology Licensing in Biotechnology

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Alliances; Corporate Strategy; Intellectual Property; Biotechnology Industry

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25 May 2022
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How Economic Interdependence Fosters Alliances and Democracy

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

alliance partners and to enable communities of manufacturers to work in harmony. Point-to-point Links The most obvious intercompany use of the Internet is probably construction of a point-to-point link between two View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee