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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is asymmetric, with one large,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
where the product can be delivered directly online such as software, travel agencies, or media. Indeed, the digitalization of content paired with widespread adoption of broadband Internet is driving a major shift toward digital...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
veterans When they focus on a subset of hidden workers, understand what kind of accommodation, upskilling, onboarding they’re going to need, partner with representatives of that subpopulation, they really report good results on multiple business dimensions in terms of...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
involved with; that company is still in business today. Thanks, Walt, for your passion and commitment. Allan N. Mackey (MBA 1970) I was in Professor Salmon’s Marketing class my second year. We were discussing a case where the company had a serious problem displaying...
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- 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
the ‘Five Forces’ from Strategy and how we at The Mission Continues position our product and organization to veterans and donors in the nonprofit marketplace. More broadly, I rely on the tools I learned at HBS to see how all of the...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
diversity in the field of economics. Bill Kerr: What’s the cost of discrimination? We typically think in terms of the individuals or the groups affected. But racial and gender inequality also depress productivity at the national level....
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- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
Pisano and David J. Teece Periodical:California Management Review 50, no. 1 (fall 2007): 278-296 Abstract Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
bribery and corrupt practices: government laws and regulations, and companies’ own compliance systems. Both are effective only if they are consistent and enforced. For example, countries work at cross purposes when they legislate against corruption while simultaneously...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
confidence. Their continued enthusiasm to lobby their senators and representatives will be important to his ability to legislate his campaign promises. Governing as president therefore requires a combination of “push” and “pull” marketing. Coca–Cola pushes its View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
company. Finally, in 1990, my wife and I purchased a controlling interest in a middle-market manufacturing company with a successful, proprietary product line. I served as president for the first 10 years, and then my wife took her turn...
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- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly men,” Barna recalls, “you notice that they...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable division. After that, I was View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
We made tons of mistakes, but somehow, after 10 years of hardship, we found good product market fits. We built a technology that we call today “Computer Vision.” This is the type of technology that powers our software. So, literally, we...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Governors University: Pursuing the network effects of competency based education WGU President Scott Pulsipher returns to the podcast for an update on the online institution’s mission to extend the reach of skill-oriented instruction. The HBS alum argues that the focus...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
particularly, credit to those institutions? You’ve been a leader at Eastern in using so-called “fintech advanced technology” to automate small business lending. Is Covid going to accelerate that? Is it going to change that? How are you...
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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly men,” Barna recalls, “you notice that they...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly...
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