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  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

need? What is the optimal setting and context in which they should be delivering care? What processes should they use? There are all sorts of operating managerial and strategic decisions that we haven't even talked about at a policy level... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on lower costs, failing to consider the broader strategic role of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable versus unfavorable) and the nature of the relationship between first-party content and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Peer influences appear to be substitutes for direct experience: the effects are strongest for those without exposure to entrepreneurship in their family of origin, and for those who have engaged in little inter-firm mobility themselves.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

Stanford’s business school now aims to “develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world,” and MIT’s Sloan School of Manage-ment, “to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world.” A crucial question raised by business... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

(UPS has already made significant strategic moves in this direction.) Other early moves are likely to involve the reconfiguration of fragmented and mutually adversarial businesses that dramatically suboptimize wealth creation. The classic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Egyptian Retailers Harvard Business School Case 106-065 CEMEX has pursued an aggressive decommoditization strategy focused on its relationship with small Egyptian retailers. In particular, the strategic role and effectiveness of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

breakthrough the company had hoped for, much remained uncertain—most obvious, would consumers accept Reb A as a substitute for sugar or the myriad sweeteners already established in the marketplace? The potential seemed high given... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

resources are limited, and there are more than enough attractive ways to use them - whether for tactical investment in product quality or strategic investments in new market development." A Global Issue Fri nevertheless believes that if... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

(retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

strategic choices: geographic expansion, continued product innovation, serving MFIs outside of the OI network, and new distribution mechanisms to reach market segments beyond MFIs. Wholly owned by faith-based nonprofit OI, MIA must also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

reduce the total dollar volume of contracts with accused firms; however, they substitute approximately 14% of the harder-to-monitor cost-plus contracts for fixed-price contracts. This effect is concentrated in the procurement of services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

agents, imitation or substitution by third parties, and the withdrawal of IP by agents or third-party owners. For each threat, we consider the impact of modularity in the presence or absence of an effective legal system. The models permit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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potential employees, investors, and strategic partners Most class sessions will focus on venture capital-backed startups, but the course will also examine entrepreneurial failure in other contexts, for example: science-based “tough tech”... View Details