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- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
transaction costs and supplier hold-up. The (A) case closes with the question of what GM should do about supplier Fisher Body. The (B) case summarizes the shift to all-steel body stamping and engine manufacturing as the core technologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-016.pdf PublicationsThe Concept of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag 2009 Publisher's Preface: This monograph on the concept of capitalism is the intellectual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
Assistant Professor William R. Kerr teaches the required first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, in addition to Executive Education courses at Harvard Business School. One of his core research areas is the role of immigrant... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
financial performance. Q: What are the biggest obstacles for companies attempting to implement this strategy? Rangan: The biggest obstacles remain exactly as they were ten years ago. While technology has enabled widespread application, fundamentally the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to ordinary television sets,... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
non-cooperative core lower bounds. On the other hand, the cooperative core may be empty. Furthermore, the downstream incremental distribution satisfies all core lower bounds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
Parcells out of retirement. Parcells went on to coach the struggling Cowboys to a 34-30 record in four years, including a 10-6 record his first year. The team made the playoffs twice during Parcells’ tenure, and he was credited with building the View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
their relationships with employees or were just difficult to serve, perhaps because they fell outside the core constituency (target market) identified in the organizations' strategies. In some organizations, this is a way of expressing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
scale and scope economies may be limited, and that the merger premiums have become quite high. Moreover, we know that some large distilled spirits companies, who entered the wine market quite aggressively, have begun to encounter problems. They may choose to refocus on... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-112 Health Systems in the Developing World This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
play interference in OnStar's early years, it never would have succeeded, Huber maintains. Today, he shares that experience with MBA students to illustrate a key lesson: If you try to do something profoundly disruptive within a large company, the View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
world's premier regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products and also of helping to lead the transformation of medicine to a molecular level. Current logistical challenges include ever-more rapid movement of products across national borders and increasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
times that of other code posted at the site. To IBM's credit, this surprising level of external interest triggered an internal reconsideration of the software code. We know it today as the XML (Extensible Markup Language) parser, and it is a View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
outline a consumer-oriented research agenda that will provide individuals with good advice about core purchase decisions. My anecdotal experience is that many homebuyers search until they fall in love with one house, negotiate only for... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
throughout the program's curriculum? And how does each relate to the general manager's role in today's dramatically changing supply chain? Raman: The program addresses three core themes in depth. Competitive advantage from the supply... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
solvable roommate markets, we provide the first characterizations of the core using either competition or resource sensitivity. On the domain of all roommate markets, we obtain two associated impossibility results. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
multiple stakeholders, including funders, boards, and clients—all while staying true to a core mission and values. In today's climate of scarce economic resources, the pressure for nonprofits to show quantifiable results is greater than... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
What's happening here? A: The core idea is pretty simple. My research shows that when consumers start buying music online, they switch from buying full albums to cherry-picking their favorite songs on those albums. On average, each album... View Details