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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
draft FY 2010 plans that together added up to firm-wide revenues of only $53 million, a growth rate of negative 10.2%. The preceding years of rapid growth had been successful but challenging, and a thorough review of the firm's culture,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
different, usually simpler, distribution process. The portfolio diagnostic should identify opportunities to shape innovations, because disruption is almost always a strategic choice. A company can modify a given innovation in ways that... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
School—Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright—show how a well-designed operations function can become a strategic competitive weapon. Their book is titled Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52089 forthcoming View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
can think strategically about where the business will be and how they might build for the future. A great example is Lou Gerstner (HBS MBA '65). When he took the helm at IBM, he had to take $7 billion out of the company's cost structure... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
remarkably dynamic, however, and some entirely new clusters may emerge out of existing ones and become clusters in their own right. Q: One area companies seem not to consider in their expansion or moving plans is the inner city. But your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances Authors: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Publication: American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze how variations in contractibility affect the design of contracts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
plans they have presented with a 5 percent cutback still doesn't get us to cash-flow positive. This is one of the points, too, that came out of both projects which is, you have to be aware of the receptors in people's minds, their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/how-the-other-fukushima-plant-survived/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review The Crisis in Retirement Planning By: Merton, Robert C.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio, was planning to create an Angry Birds movie. Was Angry Birds a fad that would fade away or was Rovio on a path to build a media empire? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512033-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Sports Betting By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell Abstract—We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP), and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
http://hbr.org/product/non-equity-financing-for-entrepreneurial-ventures/an/814005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-010 Decision Making at the Top: The All-Star Sports eBusiness Division Describes a senior management team's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
menu. We illustrate this result empirically in the context of 401(k) plans, where we show a negative relation between the number of investment choices in a 401(k) plan and the quality of the optimal portfolio achievable given those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
the dynamics of these types of markets, and to plan their business strategies accordingly." In this interview, Baldwin discusses the research and its implications for entrepreneurs who would like to become their own user innovators.... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable versus unfavorable) and the nature of the relationship between first-party content and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
or Change Programme" designed to facilitate stakeholder engagement and communicate how the company delivered value to business and society. The case also provides an investor perspective on the company's integrated reporting efforts and its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
larger sample over multiple years. Given this evidence, we conclude that, on average, firms' self-reported anticorruption efforts signal real efforts to combat corruption and are not merely cheap talk. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel