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  • 04 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

relationships that are successful over time, the parties, despite obvious power disparities, work together to develop a spirit of mutual trust and cooperation that gradually brings a degree of balance to their dealings with each... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

suppliers and reselling them, in the process absorbing all the risk of platform failure. In stage two, the firm shifts risk and control back to some or all of its suppliers, giving them more responsibility for managing inventory, pricing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

culture and to protect organizationally powerful groups—in our case, men and the firm’s leaders—and in so doing sustain workplace inequality. Due to the social defense, two orthodoxies remain unchallenged—the necessity of long work hours... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

be possible without the power of ERP systems. Many companies invested tens or hundreds of millions in their ERP systems but found it difficult to identify a return on investment from their spending. Installing analytic software, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

based on those forecasts, the highlights of their observations, and prescriptive thoughts based on our analysis of their ideas. The executives identified 10 powerful forces that had the potential to disrupt the progress flowing from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

think about his successor. ConAgra had become the second-largest food company and No. 1 food service supplier in the United States. Rohde believed that the company, with its solid portfolio of brands and history of leadership in important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when purchased together. Good A is supplied by a monopolist (e.g., Microsoft) and there is competition in the B goods from vertically differentiated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

accelerate through the crisis. We are finding that there are three stages of addressing a crisis: Stabilize and defend your core business by engaging employees, customers, suppliers and members of your community to identify and address... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

just two suppliers, while Great Britain has five suppliers to reduce the risk of supply disruptions. While fear of lawsuits has played a role, the fundamental problem is that the economics of vaccine production are unattractive for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

suppliers in particular. Intel became a near monopoly in microprocessors, and Microsoft, which provided the operating system, is probably the most powerful regulated monopoly in the history of U.S. industry.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Creating sustainability transitions will require more than companies taking proactive measures in their own operations and supply chains. Fostering significant change will also require business leaders to harness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

allowances, low bank share prices, and tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

of going with Carlyle as a buyout partner, and then (ii) increasing the value of that business following the buyout. Since the profitability of a buyout depends on finding high-quality deals, the firm has focused to date on leveraging its contacts in the banking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market frameworks require the visible hand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50234 December 2015 Harvard Business Review What Is Disruptive Innovation? By: Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald Abstract—For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products—and discusses New Balance's operations decisions to support that strategy. These include significant use of domestic manufacturing at a time when nearly all other competitors sourced finished shoes from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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