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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control over El Salvador-based savings...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2010
- Article
From Strategy to Business Models and onto Tactics
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart
The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "the logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual...
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Business Model;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Framework;
Negotiation Tactics;
Competition
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan Enric Ricart. "From Strategy to Business Models and onto Tactics." Special Issue on Business Models Long Range Planning 43, no. 2 (April 2010): 195–215.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarzijan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701873.do February 2015 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Improving...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
companies. It stood to reason that private firms, which tend to be highly leveraged, would hoard even more cash as a precaution. But according to a first-of-its-kind study by Joan Farre-Mensa an assistant...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured...
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- 17 Sep 2015
- News
Seattle and Cleveland Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Joan P. Schaefer (MBA 1997) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Cleveland Regional Event, September 17, 2015. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from the Seattle, Washington and Cleveland, Ohio regions gathered on September...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The event is cosponsored View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
committee, led by Joan McCabe (MBA '81), offered sound advice and counsel as we grappled with the difficulty of canceling the conference in Buenos Aires and is monitoring the progress of the Shanghai and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
runner-up in the social enterprise category of the HBS Business Plan Contest. They used the $5,000 cash prize and the same amount in services from The Bridgespan Group to turn their business plan into a reality. They garnered support from a wider range of artists —...
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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
know, the 2002 Global Alumni Conference was scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last March. After careful consideration by the School and conference organizers in Argentina, the Global Alumni Conference Committee, ably...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
(MBA '79) is a genuine guitar hero. Because of his managerial chops, a legendary American guitar company, once almost silenced by insolvency, has lived to play on. Founded in 1894, the Gibson Guitar Corp. had lately been singing nothing...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
the best location to start a business, assemble the necessary resources, adapt to local environments, and execute for success. Creating Value through International Strategy edited by Africa Arino, Pankaj Ghemawat, and View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Directors. Ballots will be mailed View Details