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  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

increases price dispersion within narrow categories, is consistent with a standard vertical differentiation model in the presence of price controls. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54120 Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

relationship with Ukraine, dependent on the internal political configuration in the latter at any given time; and a persistence of Gazprom's negative image in the world. Purchase this supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset Pricing Studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

even cartels treat them as valid and often successful forms of business enterprise rather than inferior options to large, vertically integrated firms. Q: Is there a major theme running through the book? A: For me, a major theme is the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

programs strengthened the relationship between firms’ historical innovative efficiency and subsequent subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these changes:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Lighten Up

peak. It’s a “fourteener,” as mountaineers say, meaning more than 14,000 feet high. Vertical adventure, in other words. GoLite Mobile: The company car makes a statement wherever the couple drive in Boulder. (photos of courtesy of GoLite)... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

property right allocations, we find that studio-financed films receive superior marketing investments compared to independent films and that these investments fully mediate the positive effect of vertical integration on film revenues. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Who Are We?

vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

managing risk in early-stage ventures. The case also addresses issues such as diversification and options preservation as well as the importance of trust and long-term relationships in decision making in entrepreneurial arenas. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

as well as a positive brand image, good relationships with key customers, and some $250 million cash (and no debt). "For me," Charron notes, "it was simply a question of how to deploy those assets and how to take advantage of the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some analogous work on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

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today. Drawing upon the active participation of prominent African alumni, as well as others with expertise in the field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in which its past informs the present. At the same time, the... View Details