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  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

where the firm chooses capacities in two technologies in stage one, demand uncertainty resolves between stages (as does emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade), and then the firm chooses production... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

increase—but so did music sales. If in fact the research is correct, the strategic implications for the music industry are profound. Instead of conducting a high-profile campaign against pirates, should the industry instead target... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
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Overview

Jurgen's research focuses on the challenges and opportunites to the energy sector created by technological change and externalities, in particular those associated with greenhouse gas emissons. Specific areas of interest include the development of potential pathways to... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Disruptive Innovation; Market Design; Strategic Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Adoption; Sustainable Cities; Business Strategy; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Transportation Industry; Utilities Industry
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Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy

By: Forest Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel
The U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of dollars in assets on every continent and on every ocean, which take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environment; Military; Disaster Relief; Refugees; Environmental Impact; Environmental Strategy; Sustainability; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Energy Generation; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Supply Chain; Operations; Logistics; Infrastructure; Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Service Industry
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  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove Abstract—We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

can think strategically about where the business will be and how they might build for the future. A great example is Lou Gerstner (HBS MBA '65). When he took the helm at IBM, he had to take $7 billion out of the company's cost structure... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

blended identity; thus, limiting the extent to which such organizations can truly "re-direct" future career choices. Strategic Orientations in a Competitive Context: The Role of Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

flowers, juice, and ice cream, was at a strategic crossroads in 2014. CEO Alvaro Muñoz had to choose the best way to achieve profit goals and provide his company with a sustainable competitive advantage. The company had already developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

often see staged financing in new venture situations. The fourth is sources of financing. While traditional finance courses have focused on classic corporate financing options, we introduce venture capital, angel investors, strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

as a separate marketplace, because each has its own legal requirements, cultural traditions, and business methods, and most have their own currencies. The dramatic changes in strategic thinking and organizational relationships have made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

strategic naïveté. Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management By: Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty Authors:Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find that as patent wars intensify, smartphone vendors not involved in any litigation focus more of their business in markets with weaker intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

Choudhury explores this phenomenon in a paper forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal, The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders, written with HBS doctoral student Do Yoon Kim.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

Total Quality Management was strategic when it was developed? Not strategic in the sense that I use the word strategic. "Strategic" is a word that gets used promiscuously—some people use it to mean... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

invest in the original company could decide whether or not to stick with it. “Space is one of these industries where typical venture capital models struggle with the deep levels of uncertainty and the longer time frames that it requires.”... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

uncertainty into the consumer's relative product valuations since she is unable to observe the entire catalog of products that the retailer will sell that season. Rationally acting consumers may respond to this additional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

and consider how what they do will increase their odds of achieving their ultimate strategic goal in the future. And, they always respect the unknown. The world never unfolds in some scripted way, consistent with some “official future” on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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