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Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Ryann Noe
This study reveals how incumbent actors leverage physical place as source of differentiation in response to the threat of digital commoditization. Through a longitudinal, qualitative analysis of the U.S. independent bookselling industry from 1995 to 2019, we outline... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Place Making; Bookstores; Industry Evolution; Digital; Commoditization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Distribution Channels; Civil Society or Community; Value Creation; Retail Industry
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  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

out of keeping with the spirit of America and harmful in the long run. "Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the prevailing view" After all, what is the secret sauce of US... View Details
Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

Bill George, Professor of Management Practice Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

over the course of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet less than a decade after the financial crises that hit emerging markets in the 1990s, that orthodoxy is already in decline and its reign in question. As a matter of capital flows, global finance... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55999 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—Gatekeepers in financial View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/56113   Working Papers The Federal Reserve's Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—This paper studies the persistence and some of the consequences of the eventual abandonment by the Federal Open View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

built brands that shaped perceptions of beauty and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What Can We Expect in the Other War?

and one which has at times in the last month had a market value greater than all other major airlines combined, two phenomena that may not be coincidental. Since September 11, however, I have heard countless friends, associates, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

presentation and application activity. "The levels at which computers communicate have been formalized," said Upton. "This is important as we begin to understand what's happening on the 'Net as we go forward." As this... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel and structurally ambiguous worlds. In particular, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The recession saw an unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • October 2008
  • Article

The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Information Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Announcements; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Asset Pricing; Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

think in any of these cases I launched a revolution, but I think I was helpful. But the pace was so slow, and people were saying that these high deductibles represented consumer-driven health care. It's ridiculous. Consumer markets have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

purpose companies have the potential to produce positive IRRs. However, because of the unique problem of exit that these companies seem to exhibit, their ability to provide market rates of return as an asset class are limited. A number of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

collect on a large fraction of financial market participants. However, we do believe a number of other social networks, such as family or community ties, are also important for individuals, but we were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

communication technology sector in the United States, and find empirical support for the four hypotheses developed here. The research presented in this paper has implications for our understanding not only of who adopts advanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

managers' leadership competencies (namely, their effectiveness at person-oriented and task-oriented behaviors) and the likelihood that they will emphasize the different activities involved in planned organizational change implementation (namely, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

markets have tightened, it's the companies with highly differentiated products that will be able to not only weather this storm, but come out the other side" in a strong position, says Harvard Business School Professor of Management... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical
  • 14 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

anymore. Tell a marketer that she ought to have a MySpace strategy and she'll look at you like you have a third eye. But Piskorski points out that MySpace has 70 million U.S. users who log on every month, only somewhat fewer than... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

content, connectivity, and communication and are driven by renewed demand for high-level executive and managerial skills. Unlike other segments of higher education, the executive education market is heavily... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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