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- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
campaign tactics they drop out. There are structural reasons why we have arrived at this state of affairs, including "winner-takes-all" elections, a two-party system that offers limited choice, and the system of campaign... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509012 Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail Harvard Business School Case 709-409 The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
Press, 2007). Within five years, business school faculties became specialized along traditional academic disciplines, with particular emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis. And that's largely where they remain today. At the time, it made sense to View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Journal of Interactive Marketing 23, no. 1 (winter 2009): 2-12 Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as some thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
books, is enormous. Later in this chapter, we've modeled the levels of gross margin or same-store sales declines, which, everything else equal, retailers in categories particularly hard hit by eCommerce could incur before their stores are... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence By: Halevy, Nir, Eliran Halali, and Julian Zlatev Abstract— Brokerage and brokering are pervasive and consequential organizational phenomena. Prevailing View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational, experiential, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
threats to intellectual property (IP) and models the interactive impact of modularity and state-sanctioned IP rights on these threats. It identifies strategies for capturing value in so-called "open systems" in which IP is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
theoretical model that looks beyond its idiosyncratic elements. Looking at prices alone is insufficient to look at the relative viability of globally standardized vs. locally customized products.— Pankaj Ghemawat The case concerns STAR... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
structures do they use? What works, and what doesn't? First and perhaps most important, [Bradley] had the leaders of all the breakthrough projects report to a single executive. We discovered that some companies have actually been quite... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are similarly 108 times more concentrated in managing motels. We develop a model of social interactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments for a dozen years before joining... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
intermediary's technology. We develop a model to show that the intermediary would want to restrict sellers from charging buyers more for transactions it intermediates. With this restriction an intermediary can profitably raise demand for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
substantial variation across lenders, even within a particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009. This paper specifies and estimates a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
mentor the next generation of women. My colleagues' and my work on women's management styles has revealed significant differences between generations. I hope we'll have some practitioners talking about this as well. We're also going to look at the View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital
By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
Anthony (Tony) Pritkzer, Paul Carbone, and the Pritzker Private Capital (PPC) team wondered how to approach the firm’s next phase of growth. PPC was a private equity firm that offered a differentiated approach to the family capital market. Back in 2016, the partners... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; External Financing; Succession; Leadership Transition; Family Business; Private Equity; Investment; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Business Model; Private Sector; Financial Liquidity; Risk Management; Organizational Structure; Competitive Advantage; Venture Capital; Management Succession; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Illinois; United States
Cohen, Lauren, and Sophia Pan. "Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital." Harvard Business School Case 224-078, February 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
tax shields of majority-owned PE-backed firms, which reduce their need for nonconforming (i.e., more aggressive) tax strategies. Lastly, we examine how different private ownership structures (e.g., majority PE ownership vs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace