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  • 18 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Campus roads are strategically curved so that no extended stretch of asphalt is visible from any point on campus. Such visual shielding of the bystander's perspective helps provide "as much domestic feeling as [is] reasonable"... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

States has often turned to cutting-edge technology solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. “Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs are skilled in industrial management and strongly... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one mountain peak to another through... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

resources are limited, and there are more than enough attractive ways to use them - whether for tactical investment in product quality or strategic investments in new market development." A Global Issue Fri nevertheless believes that if... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

almost any business action, especially in tough and uncertain economic conditions when price is a key and visible strategic choice. Conventional wisdom has firms cutting price in these circumstances. But most industries typically allow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

finance can play a strategic role. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406102 Governance of the Business Family Harvard Business School Note 807-020 Explains the purposes, processes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

global cooperation, and promote cultural contact and awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

references can be helpful, but only if done correctly. “This is something we continue to do, even with mid-level hires in mid-stage companies when the founder feels like a highly desirable candidate could use an extra push. It’s not a huge burden on our side, but can... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

commodity, which is far from true, and have focused on lowering costs and improving their competitive position with the gains of one participant coming at the direct expense of others (zero-sum competition). This competition has focused... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

suggest that the positive influence of paradoxical frames on creativity is due to the paradoxical relationship between task elements and not merely to their joint activation. This paradoxical relationship creates a sense of conflict in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2024
  • Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
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  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

position as market leader would deteriorate. Additionally, if Emirates NBD held back Tanfeeth's growth ambitions, some of the world-class talent Tanfeeth had been able to attract might leave. What was the best course of action for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Aug 2020
  • News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

the most rational question in the world to ask is, is business playing a positive role here? If not, why not? And how can it? April White: Lisa, you've raised a lot of really important issues that business can be engaged in, but we're... View Details
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

productivity and competitiveness, a company needs to understand where the clusters are in its business. It must understand the competitive position of its cluster versus other locations. This is important not only to inform location... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

to become a major product family. His success in that position propelled him to a series of other assignments, including a temporary one in strategic planning, that eventually landed him a promotion to vice... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • Profile

David A. Frankel

classmates until the end of his second year but he embraced the opportunity to be a VC “on the inside.” Being able to sit in Spangler for lunch kicking around ideas with a talent like Dixon “was an amazing position to be in. I was not... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Technology for Learning's Sake

amazed that we've come so far so fast," says Associate Professor David M. Upton, who has spearheaded the latest initiative with the strategic input of Clark and many others on the faculty, the services of a legion of IT professionals, and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

innovation in clusters should account for these links. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-064.pdf The Strategic Use of Architectural Knowledge by Entrepreneurial Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace