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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
many diversified media companies viewed entry into cable as a hedge: they believed that their newspaper readership and broadcasting audiences might decline over time due to competition with cable, and wanted to reduce their dependence on View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
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 diversification (i.e., a firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the UN Global Compact. None of this is news to Smith. A former US Navy aviator who worked at Bendix Aerospace and Booz Allen Hamilton before running (and eventually selling) an advertising...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer brands, the firm had won numerous awards and garnered considerable attention within the advertising...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
information about address value and assuring allocative efficiency. Download the paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41297 Vulnerable Banks Authors:Greenwood, Robin, Augustin Landier, and David Thesmar Abstract When a bank experiences a negative shock to its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
chapter studies how experimental policy design can be a cost-effective way to attain program goals. The last chapter examines geographic disparities in innovation, joblessness, and technological dynamism and studies how reallocation of grants and geographically View Details
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All Industries
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
elements that executives need to align and strengthen. This article describes how companies have used the matrix to clarify their relationships with daughter brands, retool their identities to support new businesses, revamp their overall image, evaluate View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
consumption moves to the digital medium? Provides a view of the news industry in mid-2006 and discusses the impact of an increasingly fractured media landscape and various media format's ability to capture advertising dollars. Both...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
directed to take steps within six months to reduce the waiting time for outpatient appointments—measured as the time to first available outpatient appointment—to no more than 15 days. For Furlan and his colleagues in neurology, achieving this View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages...
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April White
- Web
What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Feb 26 2016 - Forum for Growth
the premium cable network said Wednesday, the first time it has disclosed numbers for the service. Targeted at a generation of so-called cord-cutters or cord-nevers, who pay for an Internet connection but not television, the $15-a-month...
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- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Trump, the demographics of opposition to the president put unique pressure on business leaders. He is astoundingly unpopular with the young. In August, among adults under 35, Trump had a disapproval rating of 62 percent with only 22 percent approval. View Details
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by Gautam Mukunda
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
where he is going, any road will take him there emphasis in original. If any road is okay, the chief executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care where it is going, it does not need to View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care where it is going, it does not need to advertise that fact with a ceremonial figurehead. Everybody will notice it soon enough." In...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
innovator Stephen Chao (MBA ’81), hopes to eventually do production and distribution simultaneously. For now, however, Roadside is finding success by venturing where others fear to tread. “We’re surrounded by studios that can outspend us, so we have to find movies that...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
programming vision, to recruiting and motivating a growing team of employees (some of whom, like Swan, were commuting from other cities at the time). Also in play: managing a tight, closely watched budget while walking the line between View Details
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Arts, Entertainment;
National Security and International Affairs;
Government;
Health, Social Assistance;
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services;
Information;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
Professional Services
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
local ethnic populations and identify a causal link between local networks and firm trade. We also show that firms are more likely to acquire target firms, and report increased segment sales, in countries to which they are connected....
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Sean Silverthorne