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  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

China's Huawei has recruited 1,500 engineers in India to develop software for its telecommunications products. Even the countries' state-owned oil companies, including Sinopec and ONGC, have teamed up to hunt for oil together. Multinational companies usually find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 208-129 Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The combination offers a great... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

perhaps prefer, the nearby independent. "There's a delicate balance between the synergies [two combatants] can generate on one hand and too much competition on the other," says Joan E. Primo, a principal of real estate and... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 10 Nov 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

asked in his case, would this be a good way to return to the original vision of creating synergies throughout the Lincoln Center campus? Readers of the case ponder along with the protagonist on whether to do some or all of the options,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

perceive a negative synergy between the components of a bundle. Modeling the dynamic nature of durable goods purchases also helps us uncover a finding that contradicts prior static models: positive correlation between products enables... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

defining a social and environmental commitment. The case also highlights the tension and potential synergies between social mission and shareholder value in the context of the crisis of 2008, the taken-for-granted expectations and norms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

and discuss how the combined effect of increased market concentration and cost synergies can be assessed efficiently. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-031.pdf Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation Authors:Ramana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

multichannel, the challenges of crafting multichannel retailing strategies and opportunities for creating synergies across channels, key retail mix decisions facing multichannel retailers, and the dynamics of multichannel retailing. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

Corporate-level synergies emerge in which the whole exceeds the sum of the individual parts. For these scorecards to be effective, however, everyone in the organization must understand the strategies for their unit, division, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

that had synergies with the company's businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six new divisions within the company while simultaneously... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Cialis's hard-won brand equity with physicians and patients? With the final stages of clinical trials for the new indication, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), soon to be carried out, the team had to make a decision soon. On its face, the market opportunity for a BPH... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

and really be running them? I doubt that anybody can really do that well. Q: Do you see a synergy in the future between what Pixar does and what Apple does? A: No, other than they're both creative businesses in some way, shape, or form,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

meaningful overlap between the two franchises the potential for cost savings and synergies is significant. However, the risks involved are also significant. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218012-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

Sergio Marchionne at Chrysler Chrysler recently exited from the bankruptcy process, with U.S. government support and with Sergio Marchionne as CEO. Now was the time to work out how to create synergies with FIAT; how to improve the current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

synergies as well as a recently added contingent value right (CVR) designed to “sweeten” the offer and decide how to respond. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-068... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

Growth itself also posed challenges. Babcock relied heavily on informal processes to extract synergies across its portfolio. Would this continue to be effective as the scope of operations continued to expand? Meanwhile, analysts were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

synergies as well as potential conflicts. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816075-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-030 SIN Capital and the Fullerton Health IPO In early 2016, David Sin, founder of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

relationship between changes in the structure of the executive team, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

actively learn at multiple levels, and engage conflict. Leaders can engage these functions through team-centric or leader-centric structures. On Knowing and Doing: A Perspective on the Synergies between Research and Practice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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