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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Business School Case 711-415 At a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party "apps" as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
models? A: I am writing a case on Farmacias Similares, a pharmacy chain in Mexico aimed at the low-income sector. Any medicine on its shelf is at least 30 percent cheaper than in traditional drugstores. It also has a medical clinic next... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
tradition is that there is no American business tradition. If you are talented and driven—if you allow nothing to stand between you and the fulfillment of your destiny—you have a chance to become larger than life. If, that is, you are... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
reduce risk, though the effectiveness depends upon the role of capital structure in volatility. To address this question, we build a statistical model of equity volatility that accounts for leverage. Our approach blends Merton’s insights on capital structure with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Financial history is not conventionally thought of in evolutionary terms, but it should be. Traditional ways of thinking about finance, dating back to Hilferding, emphasize the importance of concentration and economies of scale. But these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
narrative processing. The authors conduct qualitative interviews with taste experts (Master Sommeliers) to operationalize the holistic approach to hedonic learning, and then test it against traditional analytic methods in a series of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Marketing Studies Build It, Buy It, or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services By: Silk, Alvin J., and Marta M. Stiglin Abstract—This paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Japanese system, combining its traditional low-cost manufacturing prowess with an ability to bring high-quality, high-margin branded products swiftly to market. Like Samsung, today's emerging giants—Haier in China, Infosys in India, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
liabilities, and guarantees—some explicit and others implicit. Traditional approaches have difficulty analyzing how risks can accumulate gradually and then suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
customer who is buying it isn't the rep's traditional customer, and the price point isn't the same. And so that sale rep says, "Well, I can sell a $40,000 display ad, or I can go out and find one of these new customers and sell them... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
contrasts with the rest of the $4 trillion private equity industry. Even though COVID-19 has hurt a similar percentage of companies backed by private equity and venture capital, returns on traditional private equity portfolios will likely... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
understand the incentive schemes they employ and then relate these to their investment behavior. The groups with higher-powered incentives are more likely to undertake investing akin to traditional venture funds—for instance, investing in... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
a new product launch and the potential path dependence of the product depending on initial returns. It allows students to wrestle with the way forward given these conditions, and how (if at all) it changes their views, pitch, and perspective on the strategy, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
How did you get them to set aside their differences, their traditional rivalries, and work together? Litow: We created a governance structure in which the community college system, through the City University of New York and the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
Now, consumers learn about a product in different ways—receive directly from the firm through traditional or digital advertising, seek out information themselves through search, or learn from other consumers and social media. Many of... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
large cadre of data scientists who could develop and run programs to sift through the mountains of genetic data that were being generated every day. But the approach raised other questions. Could people trained in traditional fields of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
what does the term "big data" actually entail, and how will the insights it yields differ from what managers might generate from traditional analytics? Does Power Corrupt or Enable: Moral Identity, Power and Self-Serving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne