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How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA - MBA
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- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
updated. “The outcome that I would like to see is having more of an integrated approach,” she says. “They’re definitely complementary resources to inform and protect consumers from poor-quality service.” You Might Also Like: Company...
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Earnings; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Small Business; Change Management; Transition; Communication Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Profit; Revenue; Spending; Global Strategy; View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
a role: Communication costs, transportation costs, and search costs. Communication costs are lower on the internet because it is inexpensive to communicate with others, whether they are in the same building or across the world. Transportation costs became lower in two...
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- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
nationwide office supplies superstore, she recalled: I'm not a good example of how to manage your career. I've just been willing to raise my hand several times for new opportunities. I've taken a lot of what others would perceive to be...
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by Linda Hill
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
suggests a complementary relationship, commenting that, while no substitute for street smarts, the MBA provides "tools and strategic understanding skills that accelerate an average human being's learning curve." Will the...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
attracted lots of questions from colleagues and friends, which pushed them to structure an approach to answering those questions, and their podcast was born. “Medicine is all-consuming. To be a good doctor you need to spend all of your...
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- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning...
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- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of...
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- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
England, Xerox realized in 1992 that the research culture in continental Western Europe was sufficiently different and complementary to Great Britain's to justify another site. Moreover, understanding the most advanced research in France...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
Yanhui Wu of the University of Hong Kong. “That’s good because we want people to have a more competitive spirit and produce better and more creative content.” A novel approach The researchers studied more than 10,000 novels appearing on...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a concentration of View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
service lines, market segments, and competitive positioning. Marketing did the thinking, managed the brand and consumer franchise in consumer goods companies, and provided support to the sales force. In this simpler world, sales did the...
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by Benson Shapiro
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
products; however, an MSP model is more cost-effective if a business is built on sales of low-demand items. Resellers have a greater ability to aggregate their bargaining power, bundle, and otherwise benefit from complementary products...
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by Julia Hanna
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
might eventually compete with OldCo, or launch complementary enterprises, such as software engineers who help organizations implement OldCo’s programs, for example. When the move is to a direct competitor, however, both the lifted-out...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
killing, and then bury the competition, right? Well, half right. Competitors aren't the whole picture. Providing complementary products - or making sure they are available - is the other half of the game. A complement to one product is...
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- 14 Jan 2022
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Power Play
founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners Sara Graziano (MBA 2011) and Chris Smith (MBA 2001), who contributed complementary skills from the energy sector, to establish the firm’s...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
says Luo. “But if you think more broadly about how liability influences demand, then you can think about how investing in complementary products might help doctors manage risk and perform procedures more safely overall.” Investing in...
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- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
How much of your product do you share? Does your business model extract value from a core product or a portfolio of complementary products?" Most academic research has focused on individual contributions to OSS, but this working...
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