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- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
information regarding diagnosis and prognosis, predict treatment efficacy or toxicity, serve as markers of disease progression, and serve as auxiliary endpoints for clinical trials. Some have multiple uses, while others have a specialized...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
who had an opportunity to work with his Global Institute for Leadership Development, commented that "What struck me about him was his gentle and focused message. He was clear that leadership was about relationships, first and foremost. To start anywhere else View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for traditional firms looking to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
In this recession, we seek the bogey. If we can identify a villain, the recourse is simple: slay (or neutralize, or bail out) it. The search harks back to a management primer: identify the problem; find the solution. The search has...
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- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have network effects, with the potential for a winner-take-all or winner-take-most outcome. 2)...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
necessarily work in the same way for the video window. I think it is important to consider characteristics of audiences in both markets. Who goes to the theater? Who buys or rents videos? There obviously is...
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- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
be correctly informed, uninformed, or misinformed about market prices. We find that repair shops quote higher prices to callers who cite a higher benchmark price. We find that women are quoted higher prices than men when callers signal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
team's time slot. They go off to digest the feedback, making way for a team in the hallway that's vibrating with nervous energy. Much like the businesses that had their start in a similar scene—recent successes include CloudFlare, Rent...
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- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
tenants to pay the cost of utilities, which reduces a landlord's incentive to invest in LEED, or in other energy efficiency capital expenditures. However, government lessees are attractive to landlords because they come with predictable...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
private sector or the public sector, you have to worry that people might get the wrong incentives. Those who are relieved of risk may decide to take more risk. If you've ever had a rental car where you were...
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- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
At Expedia again, for example, one Eureka story involved eliminating change/cancel fees from online hotel, cruise, and car rental reservations. Until 2009, Expedia and its competitors all charged up to $30 for a change View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
conditions, people are scrambling and realizing that it's tough to refinance their debts. For instance, a landlord of an apartment building in Bangalore has a short -term loan in dollars that is being serviced or paid for in rupee...
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by Zeenat Potia
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
“display set” of visible but unavailable options can exert these same types of influences on whether or not to choose a single (target) item. Across a series of experiments, purchase intent is increased when the display set and target are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
of other extraordinary work followed, including The Visible Hand, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. In 1917, two-thirds of the CEOs of these companies were either Presbyterian or Episcopalian. If you were anything else, chances are...
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by Jim Aisner
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
payments, and are forgivable if firms use the cash infusion for essentials like rent and to retain most workers. A catastrophe in France A dozen years ago, as the Great Recession unfolded, French small businesses also faced catastrophic...
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- February 2017
- Supplement
JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated by Clear Channel from the number-one spot that it had held for decades, and it was fighting for second place...
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Clear Channel Outdoor;
OUTFRONT Media;
Lamar Advertising Company;
Jean-François Decaux;
Jean-Charles Decaux;
Outdoor Advertising;
Street Furniture;
Airports;
Billboards;
Bicycles;
Digital Devices;
Digital Marketing;
Bidding;
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
Family Business;
For-Profit Firms;
Joint Ventures;
Design;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Location;
Geographic Scope;
Global Range;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Government Legislation;
Business History;
Human Resources;
Laws and Statutes;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply and Industry;
Operations;
Distribution;
Infrastructure;
Logistics;
Product;
Product Design;
Production;
Organizational Structure;
Property;
Public Ownership;
Renting or Rental;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Family and Family Relationships;
Sales;
Situation or Environment;
Luxury;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Commercialization;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Consolidation;
Corporate Strategy;
Customization and Personalization;
Expansion;
Segmentation;
Mobile Technology;
Wireless Technology;
Air Transportation;
Bicycle Transportation;
Rail Transportation;
Transportation Networks;
Advertising Industry;
France;
Paris
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-441, February 2017.