Concentration Levels - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

more conceptual exercises, managing employees with very different ability levels and life situations, and being responsible for the business and others. Some of this has stayed with me throughout my career. Even now, I manage by getting... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

have skills to cope. And it’s when workplaces need to make sure employees are getting the help they need.” Stressed-out workers seek online tools Whillans decided to explore whether an internet-based platform called Happify, which coaches people to increase their View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

and less about hands-on doing. So really the challenge is about delegation and achieving leverage; and on some level it's about finding, hiring, developing, and retaining top people. With those individuals, you then have to build an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

manager might be feeling. At a meta level I want the whole class—in some ways sharing the same breath—to actually feel different inside when they leave class. Part of that is from questions they’re asking about themselves and about the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

a commercial to concentrate consumers' visual attention reduced avoidance significantly. Second, the likelihood that viewers will zap can be decreased with a "pulsing strategy" in which brand images are shown more frequently for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

together at every level—from the core central concepts of the strategy to the minute details of execution. New World, New Roles When companies generally made their money in a large number of mid-sized accounts, marketing was typically seen as the strategic function... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

Person Page

Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

2000. At current growth rates, 2015 purchases via the Internet will likely exceed $250 billion. Online sales tend to be highly concentrated in several categories, and are so significant that it is increasingly difficult for physical... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more informative are her votes for future returns. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalcoII.pdf 2006 pub Friends in High Places By: Cohen,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

of 732. Once they clear the formidable hurdle of admission, some 89 students in the programs receive a level of backing and resources for field research that sets HBS apart, thanks in large measure to alumni generosity. "There's an... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Web

Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

ineffective therapies Help providers to utilize products better and minimize errors Concentrate marketing efforts on value, not volume and discounts Support provider efforts to measure and improve results at the medical condition View Details

Web

Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog

The class concentrates on different leaders and situations. Some of these people and contexts are from the past; others are much more recent. In each instance, the relevant people are enveloped by a profound crisis that they did not see... View Details

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

this issue. Their studies focus mainly on the organizational and organizational field levels of analysis. In this paper, I aim to complement their work by examining under what conditions individuals are more likely to engage in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

inequality is measured in terms of opportunity or the actual accumulation of varying levels of income and wealth. Inequality is inevitable and perhaps necessary in a free society, according to one line of thought. As Guy Higgins put it,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

traditional paradigm of service-level agreements (SLAs), while sufficient for Infosys' needs early on, is not able to achieve the level of understanding that transformational partnerships require. Infosys applies the principles of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their lowest levels since the financial... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Dec 2003
News

Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth

Social enterprises are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. In analyzing some three hundred social... 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