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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
"winner's curse," a phenomenon commonly observed in asymmetric information bargaining situations, and instead found strong support for its robustness. In a series of manipulations of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
triggered PeopleSoft's poison pill, threatening this maneuver would have given Oracle bargaining power that it could have used to pay a lower price in its negotiated acquisition. The Commentary closes with implications of this analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
LinkedIn comes in handy—there I can go and search through the network of my friends of friends and find the person I am looking for." Online social networks also can... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
away from petty, small disputes and think about embracing the broad idea of Europe writ large. That would help in the search for a sustainable solution to this agonizing, destabilizing, View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
isn't easy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/strategic-decisions-for-multisided-platforms/ January 2014 Harvard Business Review The New Patterns of Innovation By: Parmar, Rashik, Ian Mackenzie, David Cohn, and David... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Despite widespread rhetoric about the need for organizational agility, an astonishing number of businesses stay stuck in neutral when they need to implement a new strategy. Consider the situation that Lynne Camp faced in July 2000. Camp, the vice president View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
your salespeople is related to your brand. As is whether you establish a bargain basement and what strategic purpose it serves. Creating and maintaining a brand encompasses the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
model of invention as a process of recombinant variation and selection. Our contributions are to highlight the skewed outcome distributions resulting from evolutionary search View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
Course MaterialsDemand Media John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-043 Google search had helped Demand Media grow to be a $1.9 billion online publisher. Then, social media View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-097 Discover Capital "Discover Capital" provides an in-depth look at a first time search fund run by the tenacious Kelly Quann Bianucci. It... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
studying. Q: What do you think is a more powerful way to study leadership? A: Among the many functions of organizational leadership, one of the most important is the development of a worldview for participants. Organizations, like individuals, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Summing Up Less is increasingly more, at least in the minds of customers, according to nearly every respondent to this month's column. However, some cite product complexity as the cause of rising real and psychological consumer... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Texas. Users can search on variables such as emission level or health hazard level, rated from 0 to 9, with 9 being worst. By typing in 7, 8, or 9, they can see... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are developed. This dynamic occurs because the organization's governance structures, problem solving routines, and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
join Julia's family plastics business. After the business was sold, they struck out on their own to search for a similar business. They purchased Elasto Therm, with $8 million in revenue from manufactured rubber View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended B. The following research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne