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  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

alternative collaborative modes should be driven by a number of factors including characteristics of the technology, the capabilities of the firm, and the distribution of competences in the environment. We develop a set of guidelines for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

David Collis Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration The joke used to be that you could only make a million dollars in the airline industry if you started with a hundred million dollars. With the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Micro Management

Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of firms' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the family and the firm changed in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly impact distributional choices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and governance policies (e.g., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an essential source of reference for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2019 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

New Balance: Managing Orders and Working Conditions

By: Michael W. Toffel, Eileen McNeely and Matthew Preble
New Balance Athletics, Inc., a major U.S.-based athletic footwear and apparel brand, sources most of its footwear products from independent suppliers whose factories are located in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Monica Gorman, vice president of responsible leadership... View Details
Keywords: Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Manufacturing; CSR; Sustainability; Quality Management; Supply Chains; Operations; Management; Production; Working Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Labor and Management Relations; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

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

survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through the acquisition of two electronic security View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

network of bilateral relations that are more or less hospitable for IGOs. Read the paper: http://www.torfason.net/site/wp-content/uploads/Ingram-and-Torfason-2010-Organizing-the-In-Between.pdf   Working PapersBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

efficiency benefits, rebates, and treatment in case of loss or fraud. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909006 Distribution at American Airlines (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-035... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-089.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

operations. The pricing and profitability toolkit provides guidance for calculating revenue, variable costs, fixed costs, contribution margin, gross margin, and net income. In addition, for those firms that sell their products through View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a small scale helps them find out... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

centralization." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-059.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne