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- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
responsible for the majority of variation in bank value. We also find evidence consistent with synergies between deposit-taking and lending activities: banks with high deposit productivity have high asset productivity, a relationship...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
on customized software, bundled software, and (to a lesser extent) support services are significantly more likely to engage in some open source than pure software developers. Synergies are likely to make it more attractive to combine open...
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- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived...
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by John Quelch
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
volume. The distinguishing operational characteristic of by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
the synergies and performance improvements I anticipate being able to generate? Q: There are other analysis/valuation tools and books on the market. How does yours differ? A: Our tool has several features. First, it allows users to adjust...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
China's Huawei has recruited 1,500 engineers in India to develop software for its telecommunications products. Even the countries' state-owned oil companies, including Sinopec and ONGC, have teamed up to hunt for oil together. Multinational companies usually find that...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
asked in his case, would this be a good way to return to the original vision of creating synergies throughout the Lincoln Center campus? Readers of the case ponder along with the protagonist on whether to do some or all of the options,...
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- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
selective increases in capacity, new approaches to managing consumption, and increased merger and acquisition activity, with attendant realization of synergies and lower costs (Jill Feblowitz), and (3) has delivered on its promise of...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
organizations to overemphasize the potential for integration and synergy between a newly launched business and the core business. When disruptive technologies are first exploited, they are applied in new ways with new customers. Over...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
decision. The (B) case explores the specific identified synergies in-depth and provides an opportunity to judge their viability. The (C) and (D) cases conclude the story and update the case with issues facing the global confectionery...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
activities differ as well, as creating and marketing a wine brand typically diverges from the approach used to develop a beer label. Finally, sales force synergies appear minimal, as a single sales force will find it difficult to support...
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- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
business group—is a particular dimension of dynamic capability that has stood Samsung in excellent stead. Relying on internal exhortations to cooperate often leads to a lack of dynamism, whereas untrammeled competition leaves proverbial View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
a fundamental rethinking of how entrepreneurship works. The Strategic Way to Go to Market Too often channel strategies develop at the last minute—when a product is ready to go to market. But this haphazard approach leaves a lot of efficiencies and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
and really be running them? I doubt that anybody can really do that well. Q: Do you see a synergy in the future between what Pixar does and what Apple does? A: No, other than they're both creative businesses in some way, shape, or form,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
in which FDI flows reflect, in part, the use of relatively low-cost capital available to overvalued parents in the source country. On the Co-Evolution of Knowing and Doing: A Personal Perspective on the Synergies between Research and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Growth itself also posed challenges. Babcock relied heavily on informal processes to extract synergies across its portfolio. Would this continue to be effective as the scope of operations continued to expand? Meanwhile, analysts were...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
while also finding linkages and synergies across goals. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50994 The Great Training Robbery By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader Abstract—In 2012 U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 208-129 Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The combination offers a great...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
perhaps prefer, the nearby independent. "There's a delicate balance between the synergies [two combatants] can generate on one hand and too much competition on the other," says Joan E. Primo, a principal of real estate and...
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by David Stauffer