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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary and obvious changes has been a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
IMG people on "team Sharapova" are very selective when it comes to endorsement opportunities, and appear to give a great deal of thought to long-term endorsement portfolio management. Q: Did you uncover any trends in your... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
puzzling and frustrating when I had the sense that our team failed to make the most of everyone's input. As a project manager I had made sure we held a kickoff meeting in the beginning of each new assignment to acknowledge all members'... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
are invaluable for gaining a deep understanding of different industries and emerging market contexts, and are also a great source of new research ideas. Silverthorne: Has the project evolved in terms of your goals or methodology? Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
little hesitant about opening their doors to researchers, but when [we] called up the CEO without ever having met him, he was extremely open to learning from the research and to our spending a great deal of time at the company—sitting in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services industries, new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs were created.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
A British merchant's long-forgotten seventeenth-century book may not only fuel a radical rethinking about how modern economies developed in Europe and America, but also add historical perspective on today's hot-button issue of the proper relationship between government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and staff participation (e.g., dry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
is that for the very first time Apple has a non-Macintosh product (the iPod) that has promise. Apple has tried many times, from the Newton to the Pippen, all of which failed. For the very first time they have created a new product... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
"It was clear that Winfrey's staff think, to a one, that they have a very important mission that they are fulfilling as an organization; and that they have very important precepts for how they execute and engage with that mission and execute it day to day. People... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Michael Morris and Paul Ingram at Columbia Business School, we surveyed Executive MBA students in Beijing, Shanghai, and New York, asking them detailed questions about their professional networks. These executives first identified... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
investor and managerial costs. It affects job creation and innovation throughout society. Once a venture reaches a critical size, its complexity greatly increases. The original business model must deal with View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
portals including PoliceLink, NursingLink, TechCommunity, and IndiaOn. While the company was well ahead of its original plan to release four portals in 2007, Michel still faced a number of challenges. He had learned a great deal from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
intones, "How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that's coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it's intuitive, but it's also systematic." Those two qualities—systematic... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
previously lived outside India rely significantly more on diaspora networks for business leads and financing. This is especially true for entrepreneurs who are based outside software hubs—where getting leads to new businesses and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
owned homes or could borrow under such conditions. As a response, the modern housing finance system undergirded by the federal government arose during the New Deal to make credit and liquidity available to... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
job machine started sputtering around 2000. There's something structural here, because it started before the recent downturn. Moreover, we and others discovered that virtually all the net new jobs created over the last decade were in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
that does not center on public destruction of value, a notion that managers reject in surveys. Supportive new tests involve nominal levels and changes of dividends per share, announcement effects, and reference point currencies of ADR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne