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  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their bills. The capital markets... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

An Environmental Epiphany

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

similar companies move from segment-and-account or product-and-service-level analysis into the greater detail offered at the order level. By and large, those companies that devoted themselves to the effort were richly rewarded. The order... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 05 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders

I started college, I didn't even know anyone who worked in an office so (at JPMorgan) I learned how to work in a very competitive and demanding environment from people who taught me a lot,” Westphal said. Two years into his career in... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

order to understand how socially imprinted WISEs may mitigate this negative relationship between social imprinting and economic productivity, we also conduct a comparative analysis of case studies. We find that one effective approach is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

growth, stagnant GDP growth, and high public debt. As of early 2007, the country's global competitiveness has plummeted and its debt remains well above the level allowed by the EU's Maastricht treaty. Historical and structural reasons for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if... View Details
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. This new biography of two of America's most influential black leaders is a brilliant analysis of their two different leadership styles and is particularly timely with our... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

and envisioned strategy and operations. With this context, students are invited to consider how aggressively OCP Group should pursue downstream integration (and specifically its Africa strategy), as well as how OCP can best leverage its View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

that new levels of interconnectivity via the Internet could help foster IT entrepreneurship in other regions, Prabhakar also observed that global competition is infusing the "cowboy culture" of Silicon Valley with a greater awareness of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne