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  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded to changes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also detect an impact of the prizes on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

multiple official languages, at least one of which is strong or weak FTR. Painstakingly going through and coding each company according to the dominant language in its headquarters city, they were able to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding is that teams that split equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

competitive imitation. Make it tough for rivals to copy your product-to-platform strategy: consider creating proprietary standards, using exclusivity contracts and erecting other barriers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
  • Case

White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry

By: Debora L. Spar
In the latter half of the 1980s, the collapse of the Soviet empire created an unprecedented opportunity for Western businesses. Among those most attracted were the oil firms, who rushed to investigate Russia's vast petroleum reserves. But, as they soon discovered,... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Market Entry and Exit; Foreign Direct Investment; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Russia
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  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

databases are used worldwide to study entry and firm dynamics, but payroll information does not contain ownership structures. As such, they followed a practice used in other settings View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • September 1991 (Revised December 1991)
  • Case

G. Heileman Brewing Co. (A): Power Failure At PowerMaster

By: Stephen A. Greyser
In June 1991, Heileman announced plans to introduce a high-alcohol malt liquor under the name PowerMaster (PM). Although the company claimed PM would be positioned as an upscale product and marketed on the basis of its superior taste, minority advocates and alcohol... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Ethics; Lawfulness; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 07 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can influence markets and shape... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2022
  • Supplement

The SAH Group: The Time is Right, Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar
In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019, it expanded... View Details
Keywords: Growth Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Decisions; Growth Management; Vertical Integration; Distribution; Competition; Strategy; Supply Chain; Presentations; Market Entry and Exit; Product Positioning; Consumer Products Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Health Industry; Tunisia
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

By: Shane Greenstein
The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft's Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Service Operations; Emerging Markets; Applications and Software; Books; Information Technology Industry; Information Industry
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  • May 1999 (Revised August 1999)
  • Case

Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?

By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Jay DiGeronimo, president of a 16-store supermarket chain, is trying to decide the timing and method for expanding his chain. The family-owned company could continue in a maintenance mode, with each family member running one store. It could expand slowly using a new... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Trade; Investment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain Management; Private Ownership; Competition; Expansion; Retail Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

insulate consumers from cost sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing generic entry between 2007 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

leadership has been associated with change. It's not about mobilizing a group to act the same way they have always acted. It has to do with changing people and their organizations so they can leap into a... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad auctions. Consistent with our model of participation costs, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

graphic description of what he believes happens. “People notice what happens to owners And when owners are not promoted, groomed, and are fired for irrelevant reasons, many prospective owners learn to keep a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett