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- February 2024
- Article
Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry
By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable”, resources and point to redeployment of...
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Randle, Dominika Kinga, and Gary P. Pisano. "Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry." Special Issue on Knowledge Resources and Heterogeneity of Entrants within and across Industries. Industrial and Corporate Change 33, no. 1 (February 2024): 238–252.
- Research Summary
Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks
Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power. This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
appreciation of a gift from Lilian and André Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual. A “topping off” ceremony signaled the completion View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level View Details
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Robert G. Eccles
- August 2003
- Case
BRAC and Aarong Commercial Brands, The
By: John A. Quelch
BRAC is the world's largest NGO and has recently initiated a number of successful profit-making commercial enterprises, ranging from dairy processing to vegetable exports, as well as a university. Explores the tensions and benefits of a major nonprofit entering the...
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Business or Company Management;
Commercialization;
For-Profit Firms;
Non-Governmental Organizations
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "BRAC and Aarong Commercial Brands, The." Harvard Business School Case 504-013, August 2003.
- Web
In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Professor Geoffrey Jones, Flipkart's sale to Walmart didn't signal that founders of the online retail firm were less patriotic than an earlier generation View Details
- May 2004 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)
By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Ultra is one of a small group of competing Brazilian petrochemical companies, each of which buys raw material and is a minority owner of Copene, a "cracking" company that provides ethylene and other materials. Because of an industry restructuring, an auction of shares...
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Capital;
Capital Budgeting;
Investment;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Risk Management;
Industry Structures;
Cash Flow;
Cost of Capital;
Valuation;
Bids and Bidding;
Economy;
Ownership Stake;
Chemical Industry;
Brazil
Crane, Dwight B., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)." Harvard Business School Case 204-146, May 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
Editor's note: This is the first of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this first of...
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- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
on the intensity of the work and did not want it to be different. Even those who wanted more time for their personal lives presumed they had no alternative but to leave View Details
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
lot more visible.” Companies need to weigh the benefits of maximizing profits against the potential cost of looking like they’re not paying their...
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by Roberta Holland
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
many firms located in New York and Los Angeles. That said, it is not mentioned in our chapter, but the biggest near-term certain change on the horizon is demographic—Baby...
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by Sean Silverthorne;
Transportation;
Telecommunications;
Shipping;
Publishing;
Technology
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
they're pretty convinced that some form of advertising is going to build up because of the traffic that's inherently there. Since we don't know how to capture View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
where the rules are ambiguous (as in structured finance transactions) and the risks to reputation high (as in opaque financial reporting); Continuous monitoring View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive
all lawyers but just 6 percent of partners. Kathleen L. McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, is motivated to explain why—and how—demography remains a...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
style-driven business, but go with it. —Ted Hibben (MBA 1986) Start the delivery operation but structure it for spin-off, because there’s clearly an opportunity for e-commerce logistics in Mexico. As part...
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Beyond the Target Customer: Social Effects in CRM Campaigns
By: Eva Ascarza, Peter Ebbes, Oded Netzer and Matthew Danielson
Customer relationship management (CRM) campaigns have traditionally focused on maximizing the profitability of the targeted customers. The authors demonstrate that in business settings characterized by network externalities, a CRM campaign that is aimed at changing the...
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Social Effects;
Field Experiment;
Mobile;
Customer Relationship Management;
Network Effects;
Consumer Behavior
Ascarza, Eva, Peter Ebbes, Oded Netzer, and Matthew Danielson. "Beyond the Target Customer: Social Effects in CRM Campaigns." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 54, no. 3 (June 2017): 347–363.
- August 1994
- Case
Kyocera Corporation: The Amoeba Management System
Describes Kyocera's unusual approach to profit centers. The firm's basic units of operation are profit centers called "amoebas," which are sales or manufacturing units with full responsibility for their planning, decision making, and administration. Amoebas are...
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Cost Management;
Organizational Structure;
Profit;
Management Systems;
Manufacturing Industry
Cooper, Robin. "Kyocera Corporation: The Amoeba Management System." Harvard Business School Case 195-064, August 1994.
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
organizations in which he and his firm invested. The objectives to which he referred were Collins’s and Porras’s BHAGs, preferably a ten times improvement in some performance metric. In his book Exponential...
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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
still a junior faculty member, focused on making tenure and writing a second book. That’s the year she got a call from the law firm Leigh Day, which was looking to sue View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- January 2020
- Case
SK Group: Social Progress Credits
By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg
SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength...
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Keywords:
Impact;
Impact Investing;
Impact Measurement;
Social Value;
Social Development;
Conglomerates;
Measurement Of Purpose;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Capital Markets;
Innovation;
Environmental Impact;
Collaboration;
Social Enterprise;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Issues;
Measurement and Metrics;
Value Creation;
Cooperation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Employment;
Accounting;
Energy Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Chemical Industry;
South Korea
Serafeim, George, Ethan Rouen, and David Freiberg. "SK Group: Social Progress Credits." Harvard Business School Case 120-071, January 2020.