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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

years. The British merchants also sometimes formed locally registered firms, especially in British colonies where the company legislation was modelled on Britain, which mobilized the pools of capital accumulated by resident Europeans in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September – October 2011
  • Article

The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman
It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

that there are many commonalities," he said. Together they developed a process model of relationship development, described in their working paper, "Building and Sustaining Buyer-Seller Relationships in Mature Industrial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • March 2025 (Revised June 2025)
  • Case

Designing the Future of Work: Atlassian's Distributed Work Practices

By: Ashley Whillans and Gabriel Rondón Ichikawa
In early 2020, the software company Atlassian made a bold commitment: employees could work from anywhere—forever. While many tech peers reversed course on remote work, Atlassian worked to optimize their fully distributed model across 13 countries. This case follows... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Employees; Technology Industry
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  • Profile

Ahmed Alimi

business model diamond - value proposition, route-to-market, technology & operations model, and cash flow formula – all in just five days." Though Ahmed dropped off the team after the Bootcamp, it... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

built through institutional deepening by means of dispute resolution processes. This shift, I argue, raises epistemic questions of expertise, the relationship of models to real-world outcomes, and methods for bounding disputes over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

and sellers to populate it," Hagiu notes. "On the other hand, if you operate as a reseller, you don't have the chicken-and-egg problem of populating a site with buyers and sellers. You just obtain the product and resell it." Sometimes a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

2018 Individual Creativity in the Workplace An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints By: Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Rapid technological change,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

geographically by rolling up other companies in adjacent territories. Usually, the operating unit remains local if the relationship with local customers is important. What the acquiring company brings is some combination of lower View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

clean, resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations across the electric meter.” Tanuj Deora HBS MBA 2006 Vice President, Market Development... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

market expertise and focus his business expansion in developing countries? If so, where should he concentrate his efforts—India, Brazil, China, or other countries? Or should he instead focus on expanding into developed markets through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

scientific reasoning and method appear to be applicable to business, thus helping to legitimate the study of business as an activity within the university. Yet what exactly a "science" of management should study would be puzzled over and debated for a great... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • Research Summary

Hybrid organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and the faculty chair of HBS’s Middle East and North Africa... View Details
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

recognized the urgency for a change in its business model from the traditional “Windows first” strategy, with its reliance mainly on the sales of on-premises licensed software. Thus, the company began to shift its strategy to an “AI/cloud... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-periphery Structures Dominate?

By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak

Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems and associated components, some of which are core to system function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Product Design; Practice; Core Relationships; Software; Information Technology Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened in 1971 with a... View Details
Keywords: April White