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  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2017
  • Supplement

JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated by Clear Channel from the number-one spot that it had held for decades, and it was fighting for second place... View Details
Keywords: JCDecaux; Clear Channel Outdoor; OUTFRONT Media; Lamar Advertising Company; Jean-François Decaux; Jean-Charles Decaux; Outdoor Advertising; Street Furniture; Airports; Billboards; Bicycles; Digital Devices; Digital Marketing; Bidding; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Design; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Business History; Human Resources; Laws and Statutes; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Operations; Distribution; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product; Product Design; Production; Organizational Structure; Property; Public Ownership; Renting or Rental; Problems and Challenges; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Sales; Situation or Environment; Luxury; Strategy; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Mobile Technology; Wireless Technology; Air Transportation; Bicycle Transportation; Rail Transportation; Transportation Networks; Advertising Industry; France; Paris
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  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

past that are relevant for today’s discussion about which direction we want to take the country.” Titan operated only in Greece for its first 90 years, says Papalexopoulos. Both his grandfather and his great-grandfather, who founded the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Making Markets, which focuses on marketplace design; Launching Technology Ventures; Scaling Technology Ventures; Entrepreneurial Sales & Marketing; Product Management 101, in which students specified and supervised development of a... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services By: Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats Abstract—A long line of research examines how best to schedule work to improve View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

the most well-known New York City nonprofits. Will Weiss, the executive director, has witnessed his share of chaos during four years at Big Apple. After a slight resurgence following the precipitous drop in ticket sales during the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507017 ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter Harvard Business School Case 906-409 In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. We examine three examples—Ben and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

how to win? A: My advice here is simple: Think business model. Most managers tend to focus on cost management and operational efficiencies when they strategize during a downturn. While there is nothing wrong with that, I do think such... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

professor Mary Tripsas introduces conceptual models to help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. "Whenever a firm... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The TVEs were... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

his camera than the telephone. It was not long after he began his career that his mother never had to work again. When Sam Walton opened his first five and dime store in Newport, Arkansas, after being mustered out of the Army in 1945, his goal was to become the most... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

these factors, and how they operate alone and together, can give future researchers and practitioners not only a handle on corporate social action, but also a framework for understanding how and why communities influence corporations more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

  PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

is, of course, that the affiliate did not actually cause the transaction. The transaction would have occurred anyway, and so any amounts paid to that affiliate are entirely wasted. Dell pays the money and gets no benefit; all the sales... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

2003. Looks back on the reasons for Ericsson's current situation and the recent restructuring programs that cut the company's staff and operating expenses in half. Presents Svanberg's vision for how to re-energize the ailing company and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

All For One

“collective genius” to describe the kind of leadership she saw at Pixar and assembled her own collective to research it. The team included her then–research associate Emily Truelove and Pixar executive Brandeau, who contributed his own understanding of what it was like... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

were longer when physicians were assigned patients under a pooled queuing system, compared to when each physician operated under a dedicated queuing system. The dedicated queuing system resulted in a 10% decrease in LOS-a 32-minute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

Advertising (DTCA), detailing, and Meetings and Events (M&E). We then propose an alternative choice model specification that relaxes the IPS property-the so-called "flexible substitution" logit (FSL) model. The (random coefficient) FSL model predicts that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne