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- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
without endangering its competitive position? Or does the answer lie in increasing levels of disruptive competition, the strategy of providing less for much less? What do you think? Original Article The issue of whether less is more, both...
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- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
that globalization has led corporations to outsource too much of their work and, more important, their intellectual capital. This has created a worldwide level of interdependency that increasingly threatens to disrupt View Details
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by James Heskett
- February 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
eReading: Amazon's Kindle
By: Bharat N. Anand, Peter W. Olson Esq. and Mary Tripsas
In November 2007, Amazon introduced the Kindle, the first electronic reader with wireless functionality. The case describes the launch of the Kindle and provides information on representative players in the industry (or broader ecosystem) who are likely to be affected...
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Books;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Industry Structures;
Standards;
Distribution Channels;
Competitive Strategy;
Publishing Industry
Anand, Bharat N., Peter W. Olson Esq., and Mary Tripsas. "eReading: Amazon's Kindle." Harvard Business School Case 709-486, February 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery
By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu
By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the...
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Startup;
Decision;
Financial Strategy;
UAE;
KSA;
MENA;
Cost Accounting;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Transformation;
Cost Management;
Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Logistics;
Service Delivery;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Mathematical Methods;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Transportation Networks;
Middle East;
United Arab Emirates;
Dubai;
Bahrain;
Egypt;
Saudi Arabia;
North Africa
Narayanan, V.G., and Eren Kuzucu. "Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 119-018, March 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
effectively to a disruption. We hypothesize that the impact of improved operational efficiency depends on whether the disruption is due to factors that are internal versus external to the firm and its supply...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Both the managers and the students had to consider areas of potential risk for LEGO in Asia, including: Uncertainty of market growth forecasts. LEGO senior director John Kelley argues in the case that to supply the most optimistic sales...
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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
“suggesting that many businesses expect this to extend well beyond their current cash.” Survey respondents indicated that demand shocks and employee health concerns have been more disruptive than the supply...
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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
with limited financial resources can then focus on supplying superior bottleneck modules, while outsourcing and allowing complementors to supply non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Previous studies have documented wide variation in health-care spending and prices; however, the causes for the variation in supply purchase prices across providers are not well understood. The purpose of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2005
- Article
Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion
By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion....
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Keywords:
Price Bubble;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Industry Growth;
Research and Development;
Profit;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Disruptive Innovation;
Five Forces Framework;
SWOT Analysis;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
United States
Alcacer, Juan, Heather Berry, and Wilbur Chung. "Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2005): D1–D6.
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Or should Grace respond to buy-out offers? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309075 Backchannelmedia: Making Television 'Clickable' Harvard Business School Case 509-026 Backchannelmedia (BCM), a three-year-old start-up,...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector during 1986-2005. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
growth track but remains chiefly concerned about its vulnerability to supply disruptions and to increases in merchandise costs from higher input prices. The firm appears quite overvalued based on a multiples...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
theoretical illustrations and Monte Carlo simulations to validate our claims. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52743 Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Johnson, and Linnea MeyerHarvard Business School Case 210-021 What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company...
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Martha Lagace