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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Globalization of Markets” (1983). With nearly 900,000 reprints sold to date, “Marketing Myopia” posed a question that reverberates nearly fifty years later: “What business are you really in?” “An industry begins with the customer and his... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
attributes are most easily explained in terms of a spectrum, with entrepreneurial firms falling on one side and more bureaucratic firms on the other. The first attribute is pursuit of opportunity. Strategic orientation is driven either by... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the two tendencies can be explained as a product of a contingent recency effect: although the estimations reflect negative recency, choice behavior reflects positive recency. A similar pattern is observed in the field study: immediately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
customers — all voice concerns about the programs, according to recent research by HBS professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin. They presented their findings to participants in two separate Centennial colloquia on the future of the MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
efforts to build and run an innovation center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the center goes through different periods of leadership and strategic models, its relationship with the corporation and other research sites is explored. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Craig Baker
Craig Baker grew up in southeastern Idaho, and he finds it perfectly fitting that his first career assignment after completing his undergraduate degree in business and information-systems management took him into the potato field. “Double L manufactured View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
facials a year. Those services provide the company with a paying focus group from which it can gather feedback on its products. "Our customers are paying us $200 [a facial]; you better believe they give us feedback," he said.... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
As this existential crisis unfolded, a customer called FedEx in tears because her wedding dress hadn’t arrived yet, with less than twenty-four hours until the ceremony. A frontline service employee named Diane jumped into action, tracked... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
York, which is great for customers but also means that even some businesses with solid reputations on Yelp can be hard for people to discover,” Luca says. Dai adds: “Going into the project, we weren’t sure exactly what to expect, but our... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
today innovating in a complex intellectual property environment in fields where there is a high amount of cumulativeness. The case highlights the leverage that good strategic thinking can bring to influencing the outcome. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
value of a more thorough reflection on the notion of strategy becomes clear when the conceptual framework is contrasted with the reality of strategies as defined by regions. We find that some important aspects of strategy, especially the notion of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
stakes at play in the San Bernardino iPhone case. Christian Camerota: Was it a good strategic move on Apple’s part to bring the FBI’s request into the public eye? Sunil Gupta: There are arguments on both sides. The FBI was smart in making... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when in our conscious mind we would deem that View Details