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- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
damaged financial markets. As an alternative to the patchwork solutions and ideologically charged proposals that have dominated other discussions, the Squam Lake group sets forth a clear nonpartisan plan of action to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
set of competitive allocations coincides with the unique von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set based on a farsighted version of antisymmetric weak dominance (cf., Wako, 1999). We demonstrate that the set of competitive allocations also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
seed the concept more broadly.” But Ana Frony reminded us to “never forget that even trainees must have some intuition and poetry to develop a hypotheses and design an experiment.” Nick C raised the question of just how far the practice... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovernanceCEOTurnoverMS.pdf 2006 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization Contractual Incompleteness, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances By: Lerner, Josh, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
technological shifts to closed-body designs and metal stamping technology, as well as the marketing-led idea of the annual model change. The case offers a setting to examine several frameworks: exploration versus exploitation, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels; for instance, when goods designated for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
The “Manila Water Company” case made me feel even more strongly about designing a career with social welfare as a goal, not just as an option. It also made me think differently about investing and want to encourage investing in businesses... View Details
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
after the launch of the Cayenne. While she hadn't set out to focus on gender specifically, she found that gender dominated the discussions about the new vehicle. (The Cayenne launch became the basis of an HBS teaching case that Avery... View Details
- Blog
Leading Successful Digital Transformation
crypto-as-a-service. Three-phase process: Major transformation in a large organization does not happen in one shot. Most successful companies have designed a three-phase approach: Optimization: While a sole focus on optimization is not... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
restricted number of candidates coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
in part because they typically occur at an earlier stage in an industry's life cycle. Many industries exist for a long time in a fragmented state: local businesses stay local, and no company becomes dominant regionally or nationally.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst compensation being View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
Buell believes that the wall (or in some cases bright yellow line) keeping patrons out of the service garage needs to come down, at least metaphorically. How about a guided tour in which the service manager walks you through the technical View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out risks and regulatory issues as Bitcoin interacts with the conventional financial system and the real economy.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
it's an uphill battle. Once someone is perceived as a star, I'm telling you, the load is lighter," he said. Hiring and socializing people so that they stay is something that takes practice. Organizations such as Southwest Airlines, Cirque du Soleil, and C&S... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators. The challenge in designing third-party monitoring regimes is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
re-emergence. “What this research suggests is that it is possible to prolong the life of some technologies, along with the organizations and communities that support them” Take, for example, the mechanical wristwatch. Swiss watchmakers View Details