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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
enterprise" (emphasis added).12 When strategy choices were analyzed from a long-range perspective, the idea of "distinctive competence" took on added importance because of the risks involved in most long-run investments.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
budgets. Concurrently, changes to other government policies were causing expatriates—who made up about a third of Saudi Arabia’s population and were a key consumer of Almarai’s dairy products—to leave the country in droves. This case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter choices about the businesses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
intellectual passions, even though I think the roots of it go back to the relationship with my father. I didn’t put it all together until I came to MIT. When I graduated in 1988, I had offers from nearly all the business schools I had ever dreamed of being part of. In... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
relationships between this philosophy and well-being. We asked participants to answer two binary choice questions: Is life short or long? And, is life easy or hard? Across a series of studies, the majority of participants indicated that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
focuses on a European private equity firm-Ardian-and the process it uses to sell one of its portfolio companies and the decisions around that sale. Key issues include the choice of an auction or acceptance of a preemptive bid, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
for the very first time in this part of the world. And it was very important for us to start our beta, which we launched out of Dubai, with a consumer base that knew what we're talking about. And therefore we purposefully—actually,... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
affects interventional cardiologists deciding between two types of cardiac stents. Analyzing 147,000 choices over six years, we find that individuals do respond to negative news by using the focal production tool less often. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
creation of altogether new product markets and even industries. We illustrate our model with examples from the field of consumer sporting goods. The significance of user entrepreneurship and the implications of our model for theories of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
evolved to a close-out retail model where its unique low-overhead operations were advantageous. As it added highly consumable categories its mix shifted, but it managed to retain its low-overhead model. Interestingly, the mix shift was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Abstract—We estimate a structural model that takes into account the entry decisions of retail stores and their corollary effects on total shopping mall sales. By understanding the endogenous behavior of individual store entry, we provide guidance on location View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
lower-skilled participants, consistent with high-skilled workers having a greater chance of winning cash prizes. In addition, the cash incentive acted most acutely by increasing the fraction of subjects who worked more than the minimum. "Workers' ability to fit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
big-screen subscriptions for cable or any of the many streaming services, from Amazon to Hulu, that people are consuming in their evening hours—a market against which Whitman says they are not in direct competition. The founders worked... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
providers, health insurers, and consumers are held accountable for their performance and the entrepreneurial opportunities thus created. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
world of advertising by transforming the way Americans watched television. BCM had developed a technology to make television "clickable," enabling viewers to interact with the content on their television screens. By April 2009, BCM had conducted View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace