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- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Survey responses show that immigrants value networking capabilities in CIC more than natives, and the networks developed by immigrants at CIC tend to be larger. Immigrants report substantially greater... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
in great part on the ability to innovate. The perennial challenge, then, is to build an organization capable of innovating again and again. Traditional, direction-setting leadership can work well when the solution to a problem is known... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
the 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,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial group Cardo, which built its executive management program from scratch, shows how organizations can unleash the leadership capabilities required to drive transformation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
spurring the growth of some powerful business groups, and raising the self-confidence of the business class who began to think of themselves as capable of competing globally. In contrast, our book reports that many Argentinean business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
culture that will convince people to kick off the filters they're used to applying and to think more broadly," Tripsas remarks. "Ironically, while the emphasis in these types of transitions is frequently on developing the View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
level, an organization has to be established with the capabilities to understand the total system of systems, manage external interfaces with the multiple stakeholders, and coordinate the integration of its component parts. At the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
capabilities and know-how acquired in operating D'O are applicable to the new restaurant. The deeper issue in the case concerns how businesses based on the creative talent of an individual (like Chef Oldani) can grow, without losing what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
BartlettHarvard Business School Case 910-410 Describes the development of the global strategies and organizations of two major competitors in the consumer electronics industry. Over four decades, both companies adapt their strategic intent and organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
protocol, and deportment comprise the visible tip, they might be linked to more deeply rooted, less obvious forces that are fully capable of sinking the ship. This working paper, through a questionnaire format—intended as an instrument to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
Finally we look at the role of reverse engineering in the development of capabilities and how it enhances a firm's absorptive capabilities. It is intended to be used as a background reading for the case "From Imitation to Innovation:... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy When company leaders can't hear the voices of their workers, serious strategic mistakes are likely. Michael Beer discusses ways... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51190 Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism By: Nolan, Richard L. Abstract— Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
Abstract—Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
"P5+1"-the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany-raises challenging questions. Will the initial deal function as a stepping stone toward a more comprehensive deal? Or will it drift into becoming a stopping point that leaves Iran... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
for sovereign debts are minimal since little can be used as collateral and the ability of a court to force a sovereign entity to comply has been extremely limited, especially given the lack of a supranational legal authority capable of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace