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  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

knowledge work and reveals the challenges inherent in manipulating network structure to enhance performance, as the communication structure that helps one antecedent of successful problem solving may harm the other. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources exchanged through the network of board members. Overall, our results suggest that board of director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and insurance education module View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

History’s Lessons

Southern leaders. On August 19, he drafted a potentially momentous letter to a Democratic politician and newspaper editor, ending the communication with this proposition: “If Jefferson Davis wishes...to know what I would do if he were to... View Details
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson
  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

have “plausible deniability” since they won’t even be able to see the content themselves. One way around that problem would be for regulators to repeal the 1996 Communications Decency Act, Section 230, which granted immunity to internet... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

promising ways of attracting such investors is integrated reporting, which provides companies with a means of credibly communicating the commitment of its top leadership to diffusing integrated thinking across the organization and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

emphasis on coordinating and communicating with the center's many diverse leaders. "Many nonprofits are led by people who only know programs, not operations," Grossman says. "A key strength of Levy's is knowing how to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206078 Southern States Communications 806-170 Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate the intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Reinhardt called this a cautionary tale about the risks of differentiating your product in the marketplace. For differentiation to make business sense, he said, you need a willingness to pay on the part of the customers and a "credible View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

bottom-up strategic initiatives, but also injects meaning into individual effort. It means articulating company values that not only align organizational effort with the overall enterprise objectives, but also define a community to which... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

“You’re able to see how real people have tried the products so you get a sense of how they work for someone just like you,” says Shah. “We source the video reviews from a diverse community of real people across all skin tones, all ages,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

led in the development of the i-lab, which will also serve as a community resource for residents of the surrounding Allston neighborhood. Curriculum innovation for second-year MBAs brings the introduction of the quarter system, which... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Jul 2019
  • News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

neighborhood, the more people there are watching, and the stronger the community is and it makes it better. You know helps keep the bad guys out and helps make the experience better for the community. So yes, the View Details
  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

entrepreneurs, many of them expatriate Americans, helped ensure that formally protected areas remained sustainable parks and reserves by providing revenues, conservation education to tourists, and community development and jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

organizations implicitly communicate that budgeting will be participative, it establishes psychological contracts in managers. If managers subsequently experience budgeting that is inconsistent with their psychological contracts, then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

to alleviating poverty, which depended on providing the poor with a portfolio of services including education, agriculture development, healthcare, community empowerment, and microfinance. Around 70% of the funding to deliver BRAC's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608081 Blogging at BzzAgent Harvard Business School Case 508-102 BzzAgent is a word-of-mouth marketing firm. The founder, Dave Balter, sees blogs as an important way to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

firms. There we find that investor relations can lead to increased institutional investing, analysts following, share turn, and even have some valuation impact. That work was inspired by some of the international work that indicated how important visibility is in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services