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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
and Germany to the detriment of the rest, or was it a pan-European deal to the benefit of all? As the case chronicles, the success of Nord Stream depended on the ability of its creators to ensure that the latter view prevailed over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social change. It is expanding geographically through branches, in part, because its founders believe... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
competitive today? A: There has been a tendency to look too narrowly at location decisions, focusing just on labor cost, electricity costs, tax breaks, etc. But input costs are not what matters. What matters is total cost, which depends... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
definition, competency-based strategies are dependent on people: Scarce knowledge and expertise drive new-product development, and personal relationships with key clients are at the core of flexible market responsiveness. In short, people... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
the enterprise and repeatedly tried short-term fixes, all while depending too heavily on financial earnings, rather than innovation. Boeing: The world leader in aviation for 100 years, Boeing lost sight of its purpose to produce safe,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-015 For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
resulting wine. This decision is further complicated by the fact that ripe Riesling grapes can be vinified in two ways, resulting in two different styles of wine. Their relative prices would depend on the uncertain preference of consumers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show that the desirability of each... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
effectively to a disruption. We hypothesize that the impact of improved operational efficiency depends on whether the disruption is due to factors that are internal versus external to the firm and its supply chain. Examining more than 500... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
situation like that? A: I think it depends on what point in time you're talking about. I don't believe that if Andy had been the chairman of HP five, six years ago, say, the situation would have developed. I don't believe the particular... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
efficiency and materials and resources. LEED rating recipients are awarded certification levels of Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum, depending on the number of total points. The researchers focused on LEED because of its relative... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources Authors:Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Ubel Publication: Health Psychology 27, no. 6 (November 2008): 669-675 Abstract Objective: The authors addressed a lingering concern in research on hedonic adaptation to adverse circumstances. This research typically relies on self-report measures of well-being, which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
across the sands of the Sahara, it is formally located in Tunisia, or Algeria, or Libya, depending on to whom you talk or which way the winds are blowing. It is an ancient place, Partenia, a remnant of a world that hardly anyone can even... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Every entrepreneur's real control depends on the intensity of the business and the number and kinds of partners." HBS professors Linda A. Hill and Nancy F. Koehn led participants through two case studies of dynamic female business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one platform depends crucially on whether or not the content provider maintains control over the pricing of its own good. If the content provider... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
that the supplier of this good is relatively altruistic towards them and are therefore more keen to purchase a brand extension that is also directed at them. As a result, the success of brand extensions depends on the overlap between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne