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  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance Authors:Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

develop the concept of interconnectedness as four conditions of an internal supply chain: a focus on system-rather than individual department-performance; routines within departments that are connected to current customers' needs; deliberate knowledge translation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Industrial firms have traditionally had closer sales-marketing ties than consumer goods companies, especially consumer packaged goods companies. Even the traditional industrial goods ties are not strong enough for the current challenges.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food system that respects the... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But most View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

extensively within their own levels, but there were virtually no cross-pay-grade interactions in the firm (other than mass e-mails and between administrative assistants and the managers they support). Q: What can managers take away from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Web

Harvard Business School

Andrew E. Honeycutt (DBA) 1975 An Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Consumer Behavior Hassell H. McClellan (DBA) 1978 One-Bank Holding Companies: a Study of Management Clifford E. Darden (DBA) 1982 Organizational Survival as a Function of View Details
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

many "multicultural marketing" efforts are both limited and limiting, and how firms can go beyond demographic data to craft effective strategies for selling to ethnic markets within the U.S. Read the Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Portrait Project

Emily Hoffman

you care who I am friends with?" Later, my questions were deeper, and often somewhat probing. Things like: "Why does my consulting firm not support my furniture design pursuits?"; "Why do New York City housing prices... View Details
  • Web

U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog

structured around key topics in business strategy, such as industry analysis, strategic positioning, and decisions regarding the boundaries of the firm (e.g. mergers and acquisitions). Each topic includes... View Details
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

business initiatives, we find that firms engage in a dynamic process of managing contradictory boundary activities. Boundaries between differentiated units are reinforced to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

limited quantity. The competition has no comparable model. Which price should the company choose? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54489 Come Together: Firm Boundaries and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

Career penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are no different for firms where forecasting earnings is harder. Moreover, such penalties have increased in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that incentives of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

New Releases

boundaries and making the relationship between organizations and markets much more complex." To address such complexities, Jensen, the School's Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, presents a new, integrated theory of... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace