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- 09 Jan 2024
- In Practice
Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year
limitations of generative AI solutions, discerning optimal use cases, and establishing boundary conditions will be pivotal. Responsible AI and AI ethics. As integration of AI systems deepens into society, businesses, and education, an... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm conduct depend in part on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
boundaries and property rights in a technical system. Bottlenecks are points of value creation and capture in any complex man-made system. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are first, an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
approaches to address the increasing demand from society for a deeper understanding of what causes even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-054.pdf Management Practices Across View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
results across various studies. The findings are discussed with regard to the boundary conditions and potential underlying processes of the UTE. Working PapersThe Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
it is no longer enough for firms to be better or cheaper to gain competitive advantage. These new rules make it essential for companies to reexamine four fundamental aspects of their business to thrive in the digital era—their strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
the desired direction of the business. Strategic boundaries can also protect you from the types of errant actions that destroyed Enron and brought financial service firms such as Fannie Mae and Lehman... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
learn- ing and organizing bear the potential to generate new ways of creating and capturing value, and of stretching and redefining the traditional boundaries of the (single) firm that are leaning toward... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Firms By: Raffaelli, Ryan, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Why do incumbent firms so frequently reject non-incremental innovations? One reason is due to the firm’s top management team’s (TMT)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
model to which the rest of the world is marching as a result of the imperatives of technology and markets. Over the last two decades, as the boundaries of firms became much more fluid and as non-U.S. players... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Globalization and Business Applications Globalization in Historical Perspective By: Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This chapter explores the role that firms have played over time in promoting international trade and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
psychological boundaries with your spouse, and people vary in how bumpy that transition is” “Many people will say that they have to figure out who they are in terms of always having been a really productive person,” Amabile says. “They... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational contracts that support technical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
a unique aspect of the research setting allows tests of who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of aisle display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
People: Effective collaboration requires people with different skills, given that team members sit outside the boundaries of the firm in distant countries with different cultures. Rather than a focus on pure... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter