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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
as it is being employed to unite dispersed functional or geographic groups within a firm. While automatic process execution continues to be valuable for these networks, the greater goal of integration often appears to be better and faster...
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by Andrew McAfee
- September 1995
- Case
Ares-Serono
By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational...
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Geographic Location;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Asset Management;
Balance and Stability;
Expansion;
Digital Platforms;
Leadership Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Transformation;
Family Business;
Problems and Challenges;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Switzerland;
Europe
Yoshino, Michael Y., Jean-Pierre Jeannet, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Ares-Serono." Harvard Business School Case 396-035, September 1995.
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
skilled workforce, an educated populace, vibrant local suppliers, basic rule of law, and so on. Historically, American businesses invested in these resources deeply, and that helped to build many of America's strengths. Then, in a world of increasing View Details
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
made me sign. This experience got me thinking that my employment opportunities had been geographically circumscribed by differences in the enforcement of noncompetes between states—that with my highly specialized skills, the only way I...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between profitability change and sales growth in high corruption geographic segments compared to firms with high anticorruption efforts. The net effect on valuation from sales...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
mind? A: A few trends stand out in policymaking. First, income tax schedules have "flattened out" in most developed countries, so that marginal tax rates don't rise nearly as much at high incomes as they did 30 years ago. This has important implications for...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
diagnosis and treatment into distinct units because the skills and processes required for each are quite different. Services and locations will be better aligned, providing greater control and efficiency. Organizations will gather data on...
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- February 2009
- Teaching Note
AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [609004].
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Growth and Development;
Production;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Investment;
Industry Clusters;
Groups and Teams;
Motivation and Incentives;
Competency and Skills;
Engineering;
Science;
Geographic Location;
Semiconductor Industry;
Germany;
Europe;
United States
- 2012
- Book
Banks as Multinationals
By: G. Jones
This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from the United States, Japan, Europe, and Australia survey the evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework...
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Business History;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Banks and Banking;
Business Strategy;
Geographic Location;
Trends;
Theory
Jones, G., ed. Banks as Multinationals. New York: Routledge, 2012.
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage comparisons within firms with...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
includes econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on advertising agency costs and intermedia competition in the U.S. national advertising market. He has also studied the changes over time in the concentration and geographical...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
chain, which expanded to five locations before succumbing to financial difficulties after several years of struggle. The experience “wiped me out financially,” says Rogers. Down to his last $4,000 and in need of a job, he dropped in one...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
http://hbr.org/2012/03/why-us-competitiveness-matters-to-all-of-us/ar/1 Does America Really Need Manufacturing? Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Too many U.S. companies base decisions about...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
suggests that "Globalization will have reached its peak when we have global citizens who can pay their taxes where they please and enjoy the benefits of the government that serves them best no matter their geographic View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
for disabled travelers and their companions. THE BREHMS: On location in Lisbon, working to make the world accessible to individuals with physical challenges. Photo courtesy of Darren Brehm In 1993, Faith and I were seriously injured in a...
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- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
employment activity. This retrenchment follows both Senate and House committee chair changes, occurs in large and small firms and within large and small states, and is most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
company. CSOs should have their finger on the pulse of the company culture, understanding what motivates employees and devising a strategy for implementing change that aligns with the workforce. Sometimes the strategy needs to be customized to work for offices View Details