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- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
for business strategy, organization, control systems, and sales management requirements. As a result, the case raises issues and analytics relevant to topics such as aligning strategy and organization, strategy implementation, and cross-functional incentive View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 307-077 Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the strategy it has chosen to deal with the expanding demand for its services. Li & Fung links...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
head CT order, time from head CT order to head CT scheduled, time from head CT scheduled to head CT completed, and time from head CT completed to head CT preliminary report), each process was the bottleneck 30%, <1%, 27%, and 42% of the time, respectively....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
expensive merchandise with a limited wear life. PriceGrabber is a decoupler, too. Traditional consumer electronic retail stores depend on customers to come to their showrooms and tire-kick TVs and sound systems before buying. But the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
of nationalisms in terms of their relationship with the global economy. So where we find nationalism is most powerful in, say, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and we find nationalist movements demanding that their states become more...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and governance policies (e.g., distribute more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
fundamental firm value, which is gradually revealed into prices. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51971 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By: Dafny, Leemore S., and Thomas H. Lee Abstract—The U.S....
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. Given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy, this programmatic policy change presents a puzzle. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I find that committed state elites introduced gradual changes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
"lean," capacity-constrained firms. As demand varies, the industry switches between symmetric and asymmetric phases, generating predictions for firm size and costs across the business cycle. Surprisingly, increasing available...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
producing products that were so demanding that the slightest error would throw off a whole batch and cost a fortune Andy was the one who had to do the managing and he has a great deal of respect for execution. One of his books is High...
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