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  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Business School Supplement 613-041 Rainer Ohnheiser, the president of Carl Zeiss's Business Group Industrial Metrology (IMT), was focused on the threat that in-line metrology posed to Carl Zeiss IMT's core business. Historically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

History’s Lessons

possible, to turn that understanding into wisdom,” writes Koehn. Doing one’s homework, she adds, is also important—especially when something you write draws the ire of a powerful industry. Before Silent Spring appeared as a book in the fall of 1962, criticism and View Details
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology undermined the company’s manual drafting tools in the 1980s. With each new threat the Count had to decide whether to adapt to new... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2011
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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
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

greenhouse gas emissions. Purchase the case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608055 Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One Harvard Business School Case 109-001 An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

and acquisitions. As Allaire and his fellow executives weighed those options, they confronted competitive threats in multiple quarters, but particularly from YouTube, a hugely popular video-sharing site that online search giant Google had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

In Review

school for two years are increasing. Yet, the demand for business education as a whole is expanding because people now have more ways to access it. Does this pose a serious threat to two-year programs? I don’t think so because many more... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-017 Marriott International: The Next 90 Years The case examines how Marriott should respond to the potential threats from new home-sharing platforms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

culture. In May 2017, Udi Mokady, founder, chairman, and CEO, debated how best to drive growth. He mulled over whether he should stay the course and remain focused on providing best-of-breed PAM for enterprises, both on-premise and in the cloud, or expand into new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

the concept of threat rigidity to the class and explore some of the team behaviors that result from this condition. Book: http://www.amazon.com/Group-Communication-Analysis-Appreciation-Application/dp/0757582958/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

accessibility and attractiveness of unauthorized content replication. The threat of p2p is not different in nature, but of much larger scale as it does not require the exchange of a physical support. As a result, the impact of p2p... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs, a new startup whose goal was to reinvent unloved home devices, such as thermostats and smoke alarms. Their smart... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

paper identifies performance pressure as a critical barrier to effective knowledge utilization. Performance pressure creates threat rigidity effects in teams, meaning that they default to using the expertise of high-status members while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

possible unintentionality generate a large increase in the settlement rate; including a deadline further increases the response. The small price effect, compared to the large message effect, can be explained by two countervailing effects of a lower price: an inducement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

to address physician burnout is multifaceted and includes costs associated with turnover, lost revenue associated with decreased productivity, as well as financial risk and threats to the organization’s long-term viability due to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

Contrary to the view that non-core users and downward brand extensions pose a threat to the brand, this work investigates the conditions under which these non-core users enhance rather than dilute the brand image. A distinction between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

Business School Case 910-032 Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats it poses to Yahoo,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

The Devil You Don’t Know

consumption sharply, which will provoke further business contraction, and so on. And even those workers who have not been laid off—the vast majority—have more reason to be worried than before (because of rising unemployment), more reason to expect a weakening economy... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Running Up the Score

talent and player quality as a result of expansion; the threat of player unrest over salaries; and over- saturation of the consumer with both live and televised sports product and programming. Wait 'til Next Year Will things get better?... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons