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  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers Authors:Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Abstract Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

Pisano and David J. Teece Periodical:California Management Review 50, no. 1 (fall 2007): 278-296 Abstract Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

vertically integrated); (2) purchase goods for downstream units from other firms in the sector; and (3) sell goods from upstream units to other firms in the sector. We conjecture that having two-way vertically permeable boundaries may allow firms designing innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems generally: priorities and incentives, bureaucratic alignment, and transparency and monitoring. Using these dimensions, we first unpack the mechanisms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
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Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing technical support, veterinary... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 16 Dec 2002
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Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

the recognition that no matter how much technology we have, how many PowerPoint slides we have, how many knowledge management systems we have, the fact of the matter is that people learn from experience. Simulation probably helps, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
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Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

system in Germany is more cumbersome than the U.S. system. Germans are more formal in their interpersonal behavior inside corporations than Americans, which often leads to an appearance of stuffiness or stiffness. The use of titles or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to measure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level innovation, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2000
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Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

perspectives, and it's aimed at the general manager. Participants acquire a set of principles and perspectives for looking at the pieces of the supply chain and understanding how to develop an approach or system that enables their supply... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their conversion rates. This result holds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food and nonfood lines, but differ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55668 2019 Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Multivariate Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise Applications By: Elsner,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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