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  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The existing theory of modularity explains how modular designs create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808026 'Doer's Profile' Nelson Mandela (1918- ) Harvard Business School Case 808-040 Profile of Nelson Mandela designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

of the three—Deborah Kolb—added perspective as an "insider" at BigAC. Although not a BigAC employee, Kolb had collaborated closely with the firm's leadership between 1998 and 2010 by conducting interviews and surveys, as well as View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

appear to be unrelated to measures of innovation. The Design of Patent Pools: The Determinants of Licensing Rules Authors:Josh Lerner, Marcin Strojwas, and Jean Tirole Periodical:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

entities. The strategy of a new evaluation system should adjust the structure of the original evaluation system with the idea of reform and require the development of the rule of law, including formulating relevant laws and the legal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is created when design decisions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online to purchase cars. The online... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, primarily in developing countries, both colonial and independent. In the domestic economy, large single product firms became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

venture had gained by operating in multiple countries and spreading its talent across the locations. He then asked when does a global startup become more than the sum of its parts. As an example, the company's operations in contiguous countries had greatly boosted its... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

RX for Change

figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall, Managing Healthcare Delivery (MHCD)... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Inc.’s third largest shareholder in 2013 when Dell announced a management-led buyout, or MBO, structured as a merger. In considering whether to vote for or oppose the transaction, Brian C. Rogers, chairman and chief investment officer at... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European universities have witnessed even more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

want, how they make choices, and how to design and market their insurance products appropriately. Insurers who have struggled in the individual market should look at how the successful insurers have View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • Web

Field Course: Field X - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Field X Course Number 6333 Senior Lecturer Randolph Cohen Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Weekly, 2 hour sessions Project Enrollment: Limited to 80 students Fall 2021 video link Educational Objectives The course is View Details
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • News

To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

treatments, testing and vaccines, and all of the structural and systemic barriers that are impeding progress. “In terms of diagnostics, scalability is critical and must happen in weeks, not months,” he says. These revelations have sparked... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

those of Mandela and the African National Congress coincide," she notes, "but he has his own way of doing things. Reorganizing the structure of the presidency is just one example of that." Meyer credits her academic training with... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we consider how the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

integrates converging work documenting the centrality of these dimensions in interpersonal as well as intergroup perception. Structural origins of warmth and competence perceptions result from competitors judged as not warm, and allies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some large portion of their existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne