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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
management team is wondering if it can take more control of distribution instead of leaving it to the Bordeaux wine merchants. Also, can the Chateau build marketing and sales capabilities on its own? Who is the target market, wine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
leadership roles at Microsoft, Kieran created a linguistic services platform for developers, introducing natural language processing capabilities to Windows developers for the first time. She also led a cross-company engineering effort... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
robust evidence that market leaders were significantly more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of e-buying but commensurately less likely to adopt the more radical practice of e-selling. The findings highlight the strategic significance of adjustment costs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
unmatched in the world. But the engine has grown so complex, and its capabilities so swift and powerful, that it has outstripped the governance mechanisms designed in a simpler time. We have made markets much more dynamic and far more... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
from Apple, NASA, and LEGO. We suggest that task decomposition and problem-solving knowledge distribution are not deterministic but are strategic choices. If dynamic capabilities are associated with innovation streams, and if different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
openness-extroversion dyads perform substantially better—having both a higher pool of novel information and better recombinative capability with the team. We discuss implications for future research on the individual and social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
phone orders, much could be done by revenue diversification; the company simply had too much valuable data to be ignored. What should the company do to take advantage of its data analysis capabilities and the new technologies on the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
progress. The case traces the evolution of the AmazonFresh business model and describes the operating capabilities necessary to compete in grocery. Would there come a day when most grocery shopping was done online? If so, how would Amazon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
http://hbr.org/product/salauno-eliminating-needless-blindness-in-mexico/an/814041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-077 Building a High Performance Culture at IDFC IDFC was set up in 1997 to direct private finance to infrastructure projects in India. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
globalization from the 19th century until the present day. The performance of specific multinationals depended on the extent to which their internal capabilities enabled them to respond to these external opportunities and threats.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
receptive? If not, there's not going to be sufficient returns to the investors. Assess your qualifications to lead the enterprise. Entrepreneurs don't actually have to be the techies, but they need to have an understanding and capability... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conflicts between monitoring and advisory responsibilities, and the frustration of serving in a role under intense scrutiny in a brutal economic environment have made the job unattractive to many capable people and difficult for anyone to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212006-PDF-ENG IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design Willy Shih, Kamen Bliznashki, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 611-055 When IBM shifted from a traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Bloomberg Center: Japan's elderly population is the fastest growing of the OECD nations, but which country comes a close second? Germany. Learn how Global Age Watch ranks different countries in terms of income security, health status, View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
done? Anything? Or is the problem so endemic to organizations that it is overshadowed by other issues that we are more capable of addressing? At Toyota, we have long admired Jidoka, Principle 5 of the 14 that comprise The Toyota Way, that... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
competitors locked into a product development strategy calling for growth through product obsolescence and more and more largely unused but expensive bells and whistles. We're told that the typical user of information technology today utilizes less than 5 percent of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
about what these different types of transitions are. A: The four broad types of business situations that new leaders must contend with are startup, turnaround, realignment, and sustaining success. In a startup, the new leader is charged with assembling the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace