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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
pursuing an aggressive strategy of acquisitions over the last several years. End-market consolidation in the retail space has driven vertical integration in the extremely competitive fresh tomato business, where farm gate prices have not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
founders faced new internal and external pressures; particularly worrisome was the entry of auction giants Christie's and Sotheby's into the market. The Vaziranis' main challenge now is to consolidate their leading position in the market...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
provided an opportunity to consolidate student services previously scattered across campus. MBA administrative offices moved into the top floor, and the lower level included a casual-dining grill, the Harvard Coop, IT support services, a...
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- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
has to be done by the politicians. There are some very good, young, bright politicians in their 40s, but you can't expect them to take power and consolidate in a five-year period." Vogel placed the political goals of recovery in a...
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by Hilah Geer
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
chapter as one of the great marketing companies, in league with Kraft Food or Coca-Cola. The job of the next CEO would be to unlock the enterprise value of the company in the face of continuing customer consolidation and increasingly...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
consolidate as well as rethink their purchasing practices—moving from looking for products to looking for cost-effective solutions that added value and improved patient outcomes. These market forces caused Becton Dickinson to try to adapt...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iq ā and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms frequently translated from the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
consolidated and centralized all key functions, while their "My Macy's" initiative focused on customizing the offerings of individual stores to local markets. By 2011, Macy's had many advantages, including an energized, highly...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government’s highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial institutions increase their capital during sound economic times to provide a...
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- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
customer service—to build his business. Covers the first 50 years of American Airlines' history, beginning with its role as an industry consolidator in the late 1920s. Smith's strategic and operational choices in building American...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
envision a future landscape for success. Finally, Takers were business leaders who saw value in industries and/or businesses that others thought were no longer viable. Takers took advantage of industry consolidations and often breathed...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
of $191 million. Media entrepreneur L. Lowry Mays (MBA 1962) had built Clear Channel through a concerted campaign of acquisitions over 30 years by consolidating fragmented media businesses, delighting shareholders in the process. But...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
of several state-owned enterprises, part of a broad policy effort in China to streamline state assets, consolidate the fragmented pharmaceutical sector, and enhance the global competitiveness of domestic firms. As it competed with other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective action problems associated with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring plan as early as 2000. By...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
consolidation and cost pressure. Was he right, or should Alltech take a different approach? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-088 Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged existing ideas of antitrust law, which had favored either corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second half of 2008 forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Having completed the distribution overhaul work by 2011, its senior managers...
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Sean Silverthorne