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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
dearly for the intangible aspects of the product, which the firm works very hard to keep integrated with the physical product. Deals with a range of issues confronting creative economy companies, such as how to produce products with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
trespassing onto the mine’s waste dumps in search of gold. Subsequent investigations identified significant evidence to support the allegations, and the revelations led to broad ranging change at both Porgera and at Barrick more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
Elberse had the unique opportunity to observe Ferguson's management style in a series of visits and in-depth interviews. In this collaborative explication, she details eight parts of Ferguson's "formula" as she observed them and gives the manager his say. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
very interesting laboratory. Free market principles were introduced initially under the authoritarian regime. Compared with other emerging markets anyway, Chile has since become a paragon of reasonably good governance. Its process of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual property to health care.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
surface, this business would seem to face a number of obstacles. Regulatory and legal barriers have already been mentioned. In addition, those charging for access to adult entertainment face competition from similar content available without a fee. In the context of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
had little revenue because it offered services free of charge. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709456 Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying to political activism. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to respond to the debate over North Carolina's recently signed law,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
how those processes get institutionalized into a unique culture. Located in the Free State of Saxony in the eastern part of Germany (the former GDR), AMD's investment in the region leverages a historic and rather unique skill base in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
Encouraging Employees To Receive Flu Shots The CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, annual flu-associated deaths in the United States ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000. In... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
diverse hospitals across the United States. A trained interviewer scored the managers' interview responses based on management practices that ranged from most reactive (lowest scores) to most proactive (highest scores). We established... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
collaboration. An entire generation is being prepared to enter workplaces like this, organizations that reward extroverts who show initiative in stepping forward to shape the nature of the conversation of work and the ideas it generates. The work they do will be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
certainly fail for lack of adequate education and reflection. Responses ranged from those suggesting that the reform should be labeled a tax and approached head-on, to those proposing that it be regarded as an investment program. Typical... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons Abstract—This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
develop a novel framework as a means to integrate and organize a wide range of theoretical insights and empirical findings on brokerage and brokering. The Changing Others’ Relationships (COR) framework captures the following ideas that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
of its pricing, the strategic interaction between prices set by the content provider and by the platforms leads to a non-monotonic relationship between exclusivity and content quality: both high- and low-quality content will multihome and join both platforms, but there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55132 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—Organizations are formed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
possesses a number of qualities that fit with its PowerShot digital camera brand." Fortunately, one of my students, Margarita Golod came to the rescue and connected me with Maria Sharapova. Sharapova was the ideal study subject in many respects. After her 2004... View Details