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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53388 Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi Abstract—Problem Definition: Farmers face several...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks of tasks. Transactions,...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
organizations transition to these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to transitions to platform, open/user...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
microprocessor.Photo: iStockPhoto That is one of the many questions Quelch explores in the HBS case, E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health, written with HBS Research Associate Margaret L. Rodriguez. It examines the consequences of the View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Bazerman Abstract People often experience tension over certain choices (e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
in-depth examination of new product development and launch strategies in the context of the music industry. Provides rich insights into how grassroots and mass-marketing approaches can facilitate new product/artist development. Octone's...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
competing imperatives or resolve the tension among them. Although individuals intuitively consider the question “What should I do?” when contemplating moral dilemmas, we find that prompting people to consider “What could I do?” helps them...
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Dina Gerdeman