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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Supercharged

doing their best to keep up. Many are engaged in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers: GM plans to spend $4 billion on electrification in China by 2020, for example, while VW intends to roll out 15 NEVs over the same period. And the... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

that make this possible. Together, they reveal a systematic approach to managerial work at the top, which is seldom found in the literature. By building on the engagement of many in the development of the organization, the practices are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • News

The Race for a Vaccine

was hampered by a lack of test subjects; on the investor side, there was no longer a ready customer base for a SARS vaccine. None ever came to market. In the early days of January 2020, before anyone fully understood how widespread the... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

important for innovation: they produce specialized inputs, have more downstream links with other industries, and benefit especially from co-locating with their customers creating externalities. Using the 2002 Benchmark Input-Output... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

be aware of the range of powerful, dynamic, and often conflicting forces shaping the emerging competitive environment. The globalization of markets, the increasing homogeneity of customer needs worldwide, the impact of the digital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

site, where only their stuff appears. But we also propagate Dell's listings through to MSN auctions, so people can bid on them from within MSN. Sahlman: My sense is that many of the people who are engaged in e-commerce ventures are not... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

important general themes: (1) Assessing alternative growth strategies. When should one pursue "more of the same" business vs. offering another product vs. looking for new customers? When is it better to develop an entirely different line of business with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

slipped behind its Indian competitors and multinational companies. Details the first phase of the transformation Nayar led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others,... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Anomalie, a custom wedding dress company, Leslie Voorhees and Calley Means (both MBA 2015) have connections to manufacturers in China as well as to people on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. They decided to use their network to... View Details