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- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Published in this month’s issue of Strategic Management Journal, the researchers examined data on how many violations different teams exposed at the same factory—which, all things being equal, was an indication of a more effective audit.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Apr 2012
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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
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
The BP case also illustrates that investor relations is increasingly looking for a more strategic role to play within an organization, trying to take its work to a new level. Q: "Investor Relations at TOTAL" is set in a... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
as a strategic issue," Merton says. "They had been offering unions the choice of a dollar's worth of salary or what they thought was a dollar's worth of benefits. Most unions picked the benefits, which were in fact worth... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
as CEO of GE, arguably the biggest and most complex corporate leadership job in the world, and how he frames and implements his priorities for GE. Describes the processes that guided Immelt's own developments and the strategic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent competition.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
across and within those markets. Recent changes in the economics of unconventional natural gas extraction-"the shale revolution"-could potentially remake those markets, steering the world toward the "golden age" of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
But technology has changed all that. “These always-on technologies mean that we’re always in constant interaction with others. We wanted to see if that is a good thing.” They spent a year compiling data from 600 small groups, running... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
globalization, and what can they contribute to our current understanding? A: It is seldom recognized how early business historians have been in identifying issues that later become highly fashionable among management scholars. Of course it is well-known how much View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
interconnected by different "gatekeepers," individuals who bridge one group with another. Historically, engineers and scientists tended to work within local clusters of collaboration that were isolated within a company. Recently, though, people have become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
giant; Natura, a leader in Brazil's cosmetics arena; and China's Haier, which sells appliances in one of the world's most demanding markets. What these companies and others like them share is a distinct approach to innovation: they View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its strategic activities. Specifically, we consider how this shift in information processing costs affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
of management became a central focus. This organizational narcissism not only produced the Enron effect, but it cost managers a front-row seat in a changing society marked by the dramatically different yearnings and needs of its own end... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
says HBS professor emeritus Michael Beer. His new book explains what all companies can learn. Q&A. Can Entrepreneurs Drive 'People Movers' to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market design ranging from labor markets for doctors and new economists, to kidney exchange, and school choice in New York... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and have a major impact in a large and underserved population. However, Vascugel had not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace