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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
this case: http://hbr.org/search/712459-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case ###-### Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And crucially, we argue that the Fed can crowd out private-sector...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly III, and Michael Tushman Periodical:California Management Review 49, no. 4 (summer 2007) Abstract In the past 15 years, the IBM Company has undergone a remarkable transformation from a struggling seller...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
simplified access to the online world, transforming the Internet from a communications vehicle for academics into a mass consumer phenomenon. At the same time, the growing usefulness of the Internet drove sales of personal computers off...
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51875 2016 Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
substantial international businesses. This working paper argues that diversified business groups added value in mature markets such as Britain. In the domestic economy, Pearson and Virgin created well-managed and performing businesses...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
additional teachers?" Hot Competition Even as the OLPC experienced delays in securing orders, potential competitors were taking notice. The so-called bottom-of-the-pyramid market was now a focus of attention from mainstream PC markers facing View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
underdeveloped.) Nokia's CEO knew, however, that the passion and capabilities of the company lay in its cell phone business, and that there was a unique market opportunity to transform [cell phones] from an expensive tool for the rich to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Alumni Books Sex and the Siren: Tales of a Later Dater by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37, 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) A witty, satirical look at the dating prospects, sexual exploits, and other adventures of a mature single woman in...
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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
deciding between pursuing a community- or a market-based innovation model: The nature of the innovation problem at hand. Where the firm is in its technology life cycle may drive its choices. Mature technologies are amenable to markets,...
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- February 2017
- Case
BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and...
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Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Transformation;
Decision Making;
Values and Beliefs;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
Network Effects;
Strategic Planning;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Internet and the Web;
Transportation Networks;
Transportation Industry;
Web Services Industry;
France;
Europe
Lakhani, Karim R., Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud, and Caroline Caltagirone. "BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead..." Harvard Business School Case 617-050, February 2017.
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved under economically important View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
time to take stock. Has the idea of ERM reached maturity with proven, unambiguous concepts and tools? Or is it still emerging and unproven? Or is it simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand? This paper...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
with the orchestra. The post was followed by a series of conducting positions in the United States (Alabama’s Huntsville Symphony and the Houston Symphony) and Mexico (the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa) before his guest-conducting stints with the Louisiana Philharmonic...
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
openness, 3) focusing on enabling interactions, and 4) adopting interaction-centric metrics. As mature incumbent organizations adopt these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
strong interaction between financing choices for innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2519572 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 415-005 Indus...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
forthcoming Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations By: Neeley, Tsedal Abstract—For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Neighborhood Revival, former HBS senior lecturer Paul S. Grogan, who also served as Harvard's vice president for Government, Community, and Public Affairs, and coauthor Tony Proscio point to four encouraging trends that give cause for guarded optimism: the View Details