Emergent Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

strategy and detail, much of Communist China's first Five-Year Plan had been on Nationalist China's drawing boards. “In the first half of the twentieth century, China developed one of the more dynamic systems of higher education in the... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

be aware of the range of powerful, dynamic, and often conflicting forces shaping the emerging competitive environment. The globalization of markets, the increasing homogeneity of customer needs worldwide, the impact of the digital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike personal networking in pursuit of emotional support or friendship, and unlike social ties that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

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18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

enjoys a positive VoC under general conditions. We conduct numerical simulations to study the magnitude of the VoC and find that it can be substantial—in our simulations, retailers that switched from a fixed to a sequential assortment View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other organic food... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Review] Global Business over Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2005
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The Best Place for Retirement Funds

and Harold Zhang, set out to derive rules for optimal asset location behavior for investors with these individually managed retirement accounts. Two results came out of this work: First, the optimal strategy is to preferentially locate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

May 2022
Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

examining performance over time, comparing adopters to non-adopters, and incorporating strategies to overcome selection bias. Evaluations that meet the highest methodological standards are critical to inform the debates about this new... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

led to the emergence of new industrial clusters around the world. In this paper, we examine how "first nature" location fundamentals and "second nature" agglomeration economies jointly determine the global landscape of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2024
Teaching Note

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details

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03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

Administration and Faculty Co-Chair, Healthcare Initiative In many ways, the recent decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a landmark. It is a political landmark, since it provides a clearer picture of the View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

arguably within reason when balanced against the value created in a successful reorganization. Chapter 11 isn't perfect. Just as not every hospital patient is cured or every prison inmate rehabilitated, not every sick company that enters Chapter 11 View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

two-sided market, we study how uncertainty and asymmetric information concerning the success of a new technology affects the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

fruitful strategies for cities to pursue? The following seem politically palatable, though their actual impact on a city's finances would depend on how these strategies were implemented: Many cities have... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

non-stereotypical characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small “excuse" counters this reluctance. Thus, our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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The Knowledge Coach

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

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Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

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First Look: April 13

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

First Look: Feb. 15

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

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