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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable versus unfavorable) and the nature of the relationship between first-party content and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy When company leaders can't hear the voices of their workers, serious strategic mistakes are likely. Michael Beer discusses ways...
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by Staff
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on lower costs, failing to consider the broader strategic role of...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Monetary Economics Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm-Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company founders, facing the high ambiguity inherent in very early phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Egyptian Retailers Harvard Business School Case 106-065 CEMEX has pursued an aggressive decommoditization strategy focused on its relationship with small Egyptian retailers. In particular, the strategic role and effectiveness of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
and not those of third parties. Michael Porter points out that when social activities lack a strategic dimension, Milton Friedman's well-known criticism that philanthropy has no place in business, suddenly seems to take on more...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Science When Novel Rituals Impact Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology By: Hobson, N., F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Inzlicht Abstract—Long-established rituals in pre-existing cultural groups have been linked to the cultural View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the Managing the Future of Work podcast from Harvard Business School. I’m your host, Bill Kerr. My guest today is Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Dropbox falls solidly in the remote work or “virtual first” camp. We’ll discuss Dropbox’s origin and View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to jump in and make relationships and also get advice along the way.Fuller: As we’ve looked at the evolution of jobs and think about—particularly as we get into this generative AI era, if you will—that what remains of, in terms of the...
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/713022-PDF-ENG Integrated Reporting in South Africa Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Pippa ArmbresterHarvard Business School Case 413-038 This case presents a 20-year history of the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Evolution of Land...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sections. The first section defines project finance and contrasts it with other well-known financing mechanisms. The second section describes the evolution of project finance from its beginnings in the natural resources industry in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Bioethanol Industry By: Khanna, Tarun, and Santiago Mingo Abstract—Industrial policy programs are frequently used by governments to stimulate economic activity in particular sectors of the economy. This study explores how an industrial policy program can affect the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances Authors: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Publication: American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze how variations in contractibility affect the design of contracts...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during three periods in the postwar period: first, with the introduction of the concept of corporate strategy; second, with...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
ubiquity of IT is facilitating the growth of global trade and redefining the nature and location of work. As future managers, it is crucial to develop a comprehensive understanding of modern IT, gain practical experience in its application, and cultivate a View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds. Publication:Oxford University Press, 2008 Abstract This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of research in business history. Business historians study the historical evolution of...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Resignation means for the freelance marketplace. And we’ll consider how businesses can strategically tap the contingent workforce. Micha, welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast. Micha Kaufman: Thanks so much for having...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation edited by Jim Austin, Judith Bentkover, and Laurence Chait (MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic...
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