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  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

corporate participation in programs that lack certification but instead incorporate civil society scrutiny can, under certain conditions, serve as a credible signal of environmental management capabilities by discouraging firms with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

standard-setting authority to an international body. There is also evidence that the likelihood of IFRS adoption at first increases and then decreases in the quality of countries' domestic governance institutions, consistent with IFRS being adopted when governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives will be a pair. We define a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

innovation in this industry. We consider the relative importance of key factors such as geographic and within-firm capabilities and the role of financial resources. We find that location in a region of concentrated expertise and prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

software modules and in another case conferred distinct strategic advantages on a firm (by permitting substitution of an at-risk software module without substantial change to the rest of the system). The experiment supports our hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

quantity, and method of distribution account for the observed variation in IRI within stores. Store-specific factors such as the density and variety of inventory observed at each store account for the variation in IRI across stores. Dynamic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

incremental improvements to it. Each firm has its own assessment of the market potential for the radical innovation, and the reliability of these market forecasts can differ. We show that when the entrant's market-assessment capability is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Abstract—Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity rather than risk. While risk and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

template; and (3) pause before elaborating the activity system. The insights from our framework contribute to research on optimal distinctiveness and to the learning and evolutionary-adjustment literature on search. More broadly, we blend... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

against this decision. Should Adobe reverse its decision? More generally, what new skills and capabilities does it need to develop as it reinvents itself? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/reinventing-adobe/an/514066-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us-and ultimately, are left feeling dissatisfied. Each of us is unique and brings distinctive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

the issues that will guarantee overall success. Leaders must ask themselves, "Do we have a coherent and distinctive innovation strategy that key managers believe in? Do we have the capabilities to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

relationships depend crucially on the function involved: those closer to the product ("product" functions, e.g., marketing, R&D) behave differently from functions further from the product ("administrative" functions, e.g., finance, law, HR). We... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

case permits the exploration of how and when companies in developing countries can leverage their domestic markets to build capabilities to serve global customers, by using their home market as a base for learning. The case is also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

other chemical companies and government actors into the alliance in order to bring in more capabilities and resources and expand job placement opportunities. Similarly, MCI WorldCom, a major communications technology company, has... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework By: Jones, Geoffrey, and R. Daniel Wadhwani Abstract—This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel