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- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
yet the traditions and memories of preeminence remained, and today's educational leaders have used these lessons to fuel the more recent, dramatic growth in scope and excellence of Chinese universities. The early PRC was widely believed...
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by William C. Kirby
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
"Women Enriching Business," the daylong event was designed to celebrate the scope of women's accomplishments in the business world as well as to strengthen the ties between current MBA students and women business leaders. (WSA Web Site)...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- April 2002
- Background Note
Local Institutions and Global Strategy
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics....
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Global Range;
Global Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Market Transactions;
Industry Structures;
Negotiation Deal;
Organizational Design;
Outcome or Result;
Strategic Planning
Khanna, Tarun. "Local Institutions and Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-475, April 2002.
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. The sheer scope of the...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
includes econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on advertising agency costs and intermedia competition in the U.S. national advertising market. He has also studied the changes over time in the concentration and geographical...
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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
prowess. This narrative stresses that Britannica’s management faced organizational diseconomies of scope between supporting lines of business in the old and new markets, which generated internal conflicts. These conflicts hindered the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
disclose confidential information to selected investors minimizes the scope for information asymmetry between the firms and their investors. This decreases private firms' exposure to misvaluation and leads them to hold lower levels of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
friendship. Create trust, and create... sentiment in people is a unique emotion. So, I felt that I could put and give my know-how service of something totally different, but that brings people together—with the scope of peace and...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
years, eroding barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. This volume draws together researchers working at the forefront...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
fundamental issues.” —Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA 1995) After founding a microfinance investment fund called the Dignity Fund in 2005 with Elizabeth Collet Funk (MBA 1996), she started Elevar in 2008, widening the investment scope to...
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- June 1986 (Revised July 1990)
- Case
OTISLINE (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Donna B. Stoddard
Describes the company's use of information technology to strengthen its position in the elevator sales and service market. Also demonstrates how information technology can be used to better manage and control a large geographically dispersed service organization.
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Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Sales;
Marketing;
Rank and Position;
Salesforce Management;
Service Operations;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Global Range;
Accounting;
Business Ventures;
Industry Growth
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Donna B. Stoddard. "OTISLINE (A)." Harvard Business School Case 186-304, June 1986. (Revised July 1990.)
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
with each other. We then examine a second model of the internal structure of a cluster to examine possibilities with firm-level data for better exposing the internal operations of clusters. An overwhelming theme of our review is the vast View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope of the gallery will be brought into question when...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
events—and what procedures and practices will aid in their ability to do so? Obviously, extreme events—events that are in scope or scale or type beyond the range of our ordinary experience and expectations—by definition will occur only...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
of a project. Technological Invisibility Gaps in access and utility that emerge for particular demographic groups due to limited scope or understanding and appreciation of differences in need/experience. Universal Design A set of...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
of scope for managerial diversion, having the state enforce its claim can be a wonderful thing for shareholders. Similarly, tax avoidance in the United States is only valued fully for firms that are considered well-governed firms. Some...
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by Ann Cullen
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
processing or sharing of Personal Data by a Harvard Entity when those activities are within the scope of any Relevant Law. “Relevant Law” means any personal data protection law applicable to individuals located outside the U.S. that apply...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and View Details