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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen's career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the use of strategic thinking to accomplish... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
anyone with real costs of committing the fraud, be they costs of designing the fraud or costs of scaling it up, this method seems to work in principle, subject to the algebraic constraints of whether it can be implemented profitably. As... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
encourages voice and is guided by voice. Deep support listens and offers connection. It offers a collaborative relationship defined by advocacy. It is founded on trust, reciprocity, authenticity, intimacy, and absolute reliability. Deep support can be View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717465-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it allows measurement of the previously opaque, or when it can be coupled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
level of maturity where scaling the business model was the next logical step. With two greenhouses already in Canada, he was looking into other locations in the U.S. Though Lufa Farms' advanced cultivation technologies made the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
lines. We model and show empirically that exploration R&D does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
group, if it existed today, could be. What would their key activities be in our current era? Bower and Paine: We see a new CED as a possible response to the challenge of scaling up the kinds of work by individual firms that we describe in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
interconnectedness, and complexity. Despite the pressure, Jamie Dimon remained vocal in advocating for the value of a broad scope, large scale financial services firm. However, questions remained about the optimal scope of the bank and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Measure Economic Activity at Scale By: Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity at scale? Government datasets from agencies such as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
fast-growing food service sector. Internationally, the plan sets out a vision of Brasil Foods evolving from an exporter to a true multinational. The team believes their operational expertise and scale combined with Brazil's booming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
intact but funding it better, by allowing outside sponsors to provide the funds. The second option, called "deep networks," focused on developing strong ties and entailed scaling down the number of networks and providing them... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
has been about half as severe as in these other financing vehicles and transactions. The strong long-term demand stems from three underlying trends. First, globalization is increasing the minimum efficient scale for many industries,... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
high-impact entrepreneurs for mentoring and aid in scaling up their businesses from committed local business leaders. In summer 2012, Endeavor received an invitation to replicate its model in Miami, Florida, and the Endeavor board was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
of the way scales are put together. You can never play perfectly in tune. So your efforts to play perfectly in tune, however sincere and vehement, always lead to some degree of conflict. In part it means to give in; the harder you try to... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
about it. Some are comfortable with being known because there is some mission that they are trying to communicate, and others truly need consumers to experience the art itself. In the latter case, the chef needs to be able to scale up... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
critical and creative thinking, as well as communication skills. "These skills lie much more on the 'doing' side of the scale than the 'knowing' side," says Datar. Such soft-skills development by its very nature involves... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights provisions, in particular, maximum vote provisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace