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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Business School Case 212-010 Adaptive Engineering, LLC The owner and CEO of Adaptive Engineering was facing an important decision: should he focus on rebuilding its core professional services business, which had generated significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
groups and above a threshold with respect to system size. We find that the size of the Core varies widely, even for systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
an equally skilled person in another location at a lower wage. Other countries have been improving their game with good skills compared to us and have better infrastructure in some cases than we do. We believe the US retains its core... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
region's burgeoning energy sector by attracting green-minded companies to the urban core and position Charlotte as a highly progressive business center. The idea was to make Charlotte the "new energy hub of America" and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
whether focusing on its core brands, which currently represent 90% of sales, is a better approach. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512009-PDF-ENG The Expansion of Ping An Robert C. Pozen and Nina J. YangHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
tightly controls its search engine technology that is the core of its advertising profits. In a similar way, Facebook uses open source code to run its site and has recently opened up the design of its data centers, but closely guards its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
First, in the case of the core and largest sector, Advertising Agencies, firm-level concentration as measured by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) increased slightly but remained relatively low from 1977-2002. All of the HHI estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Luca, and Christopher T. Stanton surveyed 5,819 small businesses in the United States, finding that many businesses would not be able to survive if the crisis continued to persist for months. Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
transactions. A combination of Amazon and eBay, it holds an 80 percent share of the e-commerce market in the world's second largest economy. Its net income for 2013 was four times more than in 2012. Its products and services lie at the View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
divest Fiat's core automobile business; when that was rejected by creditors and shareholders, he resigned in 2003. Consider, too, John Trani, who in 1997 left a long career at GE Plastics for toolmaker and hardware manufacturer Stanley... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm such as Cisco Systems has used... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-413 Issues in Non-Profit Governance Non-profit governance at its core is very different from for-profit governance. Certain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel plazas—to its main competitor in 2010. Since that time, the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
brands. Companies can leverage storytelling to build their brands, and careful brand extensions can grow the business as long as they do not alienate core loyalists. Other potentially risky opportunities to weigh carefully are moving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
including superiors, the board, and respected internal opinion leaders; 2) motivates others for change; 3) protects and nurtures the vital role of creative mavericks; 4) signals respect for and actively reinforces crucial core values; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
literature and a community of scholars, has a narrow and a broad definition. The narrower definition includes researchers such as myself who do primary archival research on the history of business, who belong to the societies, and who publish in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
required that they act rapidly. However, they had divergent views on the path forward. Should they stay the course and focus on their core competencies, or should they rethink their approach to sales and drive profitability via spot... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman