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- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Consumers' Price Sensitivities Across Complementary Categories Authors:Sri Devi Duvvuri, Asim... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
However, with ecommerce we believe we are now at a tipping point for many retailers. Category killers are highly focused retailers specializing in a category of goods that succeeded against Walmart due to their deep assortment, aggressive... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
proactively seek out the doctor . A good manager needs to get more involved in 'preventative medicine .'" Akhil Mehta, before observing similarities, pointed out that " human life is almost never involved in managerial decision... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
firms and alliances head-to-head in a meaningful way, which requires measuring their performance in similar situations. "When you see an alliance over here, and a solo firm over there, there's a good reason for that," says... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
have seen a lot of business situations over the years," says Callaghan. "We both have a pretty good sense of what works and what doesn't." "It's a great match, given our complementary skills," agrees McGee.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
establish a demilitarized buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw the boundary line in the sand. Although shared interests matter, Sebenius says, skilled two-dimensional negotiators realize that the different... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
that it has a good product and that it can bring favorable returns to investors," she says. "But that's just part of the package. It must also assemble a management team that brings a combination of influential and View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
assistance as they enter the program—the need-based scholarships we offer to nearly half of our MBA students and the complementary fellowships available to some students based on their backgrounds and interests. The second is the summer... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
money. Seek investors who bring more than just money and are as complementary as possible. Listen to different points of view. Keep costs low for as long as possible, but not to the extent that you compromise the mission. Find the best... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
variety of applications and services that drive the popularity of software. The first principle focuses on enabling choice: firms should allow consumers and partners to have a real choice between complementary products and services from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off
terminology and the product itself – plus, knowing a good deal when they saw one, the web domain was $12 a year. Partnerships take Zorpads to the stars Since graduating from HBS in 2017, Wiegele and Smith continued growing Zorpads,... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
teaming up with some local firm in Europe that offers a complementary product? Couldn't we get what we need through a joint venture?" If we don't make this move, we get killed by VisiDat—or some other competitor we don't even know... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Investment Promote Growth? By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
mayhem, but it is also a waste of very good ideas that may never see the light of day.” Partnerships, she says, are even more complicated than marriages. The pressures from courting investors, managing employees, speaking to the public,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling, Frank V. Cespedes laments the fact that sales and strategy rarely make a joint and complementary appearance in MBA classrooms or academic journals. Professors stick safely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. Rebels—those who practice “positive deviance” at work—are harder to manage, but they are good for the bottom line: their passion, drive, curiosity, and creativity raise the entire... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
diversity-performance relationship in teams, while research on knowledge and practice explores the situated activities and logics of diverse experts in great depth. Both streams thus shed light on team diversity, offering complementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
203's 85% threshold to 70%. Like the middle-ground approach on staggered boards, this amendment-to a single number-would also represent good policy: facilitating high-premium offers that attract a supermajority of disinterested shares,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
modular architectures, and good stewardship of legacy systems. It rests on multiple, complementary platforms. It requires intellectual property rights to be present, but not too strong. Finally, it requires... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne