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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
differentiate "quality FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
Feng Zhu Abstract We provide the first formal model of business model innovation in a game-theoretic framework. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices directly to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
excerpt, Thomas describes the key factors that made the initiative a success. Any major corporate change will succeed only if a few key factors are in place: strong support from company leaders, an employee base that is fully engaged with... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
directly tied to space, which would affect your typical worker, is going to be based on satellites, namely using data from them about the Earth and data through them as satellite internet expands its reach. If we look out a bit further,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
other firms around the world improve in competitiveness and quality, at what point are customers no longer going to be willing to pay a premium for higher-quality goods? The quality differential will also probably shrink over time in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
to be entirely adversarial, but that buyers and sellers along the food chain can benefit from cooperation based on trust. "The world has finally, finally got it," the 87-year-old Goldberg says. "I'm just glad I was here to see it." The... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
no check box for the attributes we really want to know most about, he says, such as, is this a kind person? "So people search based on income, ethnicity, religion—these things are important and they are all decent predictors of... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
growth decisions facing Direvo, a young German biotech firm, when one of their partners suddenly wants to become an investor and the company expands both its customer and investor base in Europe and not just... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
devising a new cooperation model, with less emphasis on competition and more on building working relationships within and between companies. Mills writes that the book is about "how people, limited by misconceptions based on past... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
capability in order to preserve proprietary information (Kulkarni). Doherty was concerned that organizations might extend their boundaries without a clear strategy. He offered a "2x2" rule-of-thumb strategy for doing this based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new initiatives in B2C... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Amgen people is helping to cure patients and improving their quality of life." « Back Information Plus Imagination In this era of connectivity and universal access, Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA '66) has found a niche based on View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
customers and the community, and differentiates us from our competitors," explains Jackson. "It's all part of our business strategy for leading BankBoston into the 21st century and is consistent with the philosophy of managing with values... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social pressure fueled by small socially responsible investment funds and nonprofit organizations and customer pressure from individual investors are critical in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
inattention to customer feedback — led to stagnating sales and declining profits. "When I walked into this company in 1994," says Claiborne's straight-talking chairman, president, and CEO Paul Charron, "it was a $2-billion corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
It's the dream business location. Vital infrastructure feeds the area. A committed workforce lives nearby. A large number of potential customers are packed around you. And it's the last place you thought to look: the inner city. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
such success stories as Akamai Technologies, which enabled the rapid movement of data over the Internet, and deCODE Genetics, a global leader in analyzing the human genome based in Iceland. Early on, Polaris decided to invest in the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 217-016 Financial Services at Falabella (A) In 2010, the board and senior management team of Falabella, a leading retailer with operations throughout Latin America, faced choices about what to do with its financial services division. More... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
courts established the principle that Section 203 must give bidders a "meaningful opportunity for success" in order to withstand scrutiny under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution; (2) federal courts upheld Section 203 at the time, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne