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- 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
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
status acquired through affiliations provided young firms with the buffering advantage that larger, well-established firms enjoyed due to their status, and enabled them to compete in the same arena as much larger firms. Q: How important is the View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
actions with social or future benefits. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53178 A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies By: Giacomin, Valeria Abstract—Clusters are defined as View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 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
- Web
Privacy Statement (English) - Global
located outside of the EEA, including to the United States, which may provide for different data protection rules than the EEA. Transfers of personal data from one country to another (or one geographic...
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- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
firms. Immigrant-owned firms, on average, create fewer jobs than native-owned firms, but much of this is explained by the industry and geographic location of the firms. Immigrant-owned firms pay comparable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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.
- Web
MBA 2024 Alumni Transition - Alumni
brought in from home. Erase all sensitive, confidential data from e-waste. Batteries, cell phones, chargers and cords, ink cartridges, and flash drives can be dropped off in the student mailroom located in Rock Center or interoffice mail...
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- 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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- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
into living groups of 8 people each, with careful attention paid to the balance of expertise and geographical representation. Each living group "pod" includes a living room, kitchen, and shared dining area, with simple bed-bath...
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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
genetically modified corn to manufacture it, and only consumers in locations with municipal composting facilities could compost this packaging. Most of the company’s compostable plastic would wind up in landfills, or even worse, consumers...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
weighs four options: continue expanding internationally to the U.S. and other distant markets, buy an ownership stake in Istanbul's other remaining airport, diversify into related businesses, or seek out large infrastructure projects unrelated to airports. Will...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically...
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Sean Silverthorne