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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Multichannel retailers dominate today's retail landscape. While there are many benefits of operating multiple channels, these retailers also face many challenges. In this article, we discuss the key issues concerning multichannel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
chypre, and was the first perfumer to sell his wares in elegantly designed glass bottles, rather than in the pharmaceutical bottles used previously. An ambitious believer in globalization, he even sent his energetic mother-in-law to open... View Details
- 23 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
express inconsistent beliefs about the product suitable from them, and mention they have received advice from another seller of insurance, they are more likely to receive suitable advice. Agents provide better advice to more sophisticated consumers. Finally, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
value created for shareholders. Agency theory ascends It isn’t much of an exaggeration to say that the “Friedman Doctrine” triggered a half-century of dominance for “agency theory” in corporate governance. Adherence to the concept has led... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
sibling dominated boards accomplish much. Siblings, who are typically quite sensitive to one another, often either avoid confrontations or quickly escalate disagreements into disruptive conflicts. Siblings also often see their board... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
complicated history still dominate public consciousness. Memories of failed peace talks tend to loom larger than Israel’s image as a startup nation. Thousands of Instagram posts from Tel Aviv’s gay pride festivities or the buzz from... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
system united. Sibling systems have the hardest time working out who should have what leadership role and power. “The one-leader model still dominates everywhere and at all stages” With those few exceptions, the one-leader model still... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
like that was explicitly designed to engage the drives, the skills, the smarts, and the emotions of such people in a collaborative effort to design, produce, and sell products and services of value to the wider world? After we have... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
application, disruptive innovations inexorably get better until they change the game, relegating previously dominant firms to the sidelines in often stunning fashion. Incumbents almost always win battles of sustaining innovations. Their... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
suppliers in as many countries before it lands in the hands of the final assembler. "The sequential, multicountry production model is what dominates now, and it's a model where little bits of value get added here or there and it's... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706442 Central Bank: The ChexSystems(SM) QualiFile(R) Decision Harvard Business School Case 208-029 The "Central Bank" series analyzes the use of information and product View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
results were very promising. However, the industry was dominated by large players who could impede the introductions of new technologies. BCM's founders would have to make critical decisions about how quickly to roll out their technology,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
set of competitive allocations coincides with the unique von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set based on a farsighted version of antisymmetric weak dominance (cf., Wako, 1999). We demonstrate that the set of competitive allocations also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is a striking success for advocates of strong industrial policy. It has led to the island nation's domination of the global "foundry" business in which firms like Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace