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- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
small, Apple was increasingly dependent on the iPhone to drive its growth. Could Cook continue Apple's dominance in the smartphone market in the face of growing competition? Could he revitalize the iPad business, become a leader in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
School Case 615-017 Qihoo Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software produc, and quickly dominated the market in China after its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
broad-based government guarantees to one with market discipline exerted by sophisticated and at-risk investors in bank debt. The federal government should not be encouraging mergers among large institutions in the financial sector, which is now View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
for developing cases.) The best cases describe real, not fictitious, organizations and real business issues. Within the business school, cases had become the dominant mode of instruction by the mid 1930s, and acceptance was equally swift... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
company-wide product development organization. Walden's group holds promise but must overcome cultural, structural, and technical barriers to innovate in a giant telecom. In the midst of change, executives debate the wisdom of Verizon's push into developing products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
giving enough power to the three groups but no one person was dominant over the others. Q: As you said, changing an entrenched culture is difficult. One of the first things he did was to lay people off, to make it a smaller organization.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
specialization of capital, the domination by institutions instead of entrepreneurs, all these things have produced lower risks. If you have lower risks, you should not expect to get the same returns you got a decade ago. We will never go... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
airlines to adopt the recommendations of the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Despite operating as a smaller player in an industry dominated by few legacy competitors, JetBlue leadership saw themselves as a driver of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
the effective allocation of work. Cases & Course MaterialsSotheby's & Christie's Inc. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and C.J. WiseHarvard Business School Case 710-412 The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250 year history. The industry is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
effect of greater rivalry dominates for less uncertain problems whereas the effect on the extreme value prevails for more uncertain problems. Adding competitors thus systematically increases overall contest performance for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
a dominant reimbursement model, and for which patient health outcomes were universally measured and reported. In 1986, UCLA Medical Center was approached by Kaiser to develop a new bundled-pricing approach to kidney transplant care that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence From the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007 to 2013. As digital technologies increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
affairs in our chapter in The Support Economy called "The Transaction Crisis." Cost reduction has continued to be the dominant strategy under managerial capitalism because new sources of wealth creation are increasingly elusive.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and remain within the guidelines of the WDC charter, the UN secretary-general would name a review group to monitor each venture. The WDC itself, however, would remain a small organization managed by people from many countries—and not View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
patent pools need to be ex-post incentive compatible is not possible. Third, we show that allowing firms to sign ex-ante agreements regarding pool participation dominates (in terms of welfare) any other policy rule. This policy does not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
restricted number of candidates coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace