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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Professor Bower, since 1970 you have articulated views on the resource allocation process and how it fundamentally shapes corporate strategy. Could you give us a brief overview of the resource allocation process? Bower: Organizations of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
required to enhance human connections and promote a sense of belonging. A large technology company whose remote work teams were scattered across numerous distant locations invented a new role to boost sagging morale: “mayors,” volunteers...
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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609050 NEC Electronics Harvard Business School Case 209-001 Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC, trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
newsroom located in lower Manhattan on September 16, 2008. He knew a historical financial debacle was happening at his doorstep, yet none of his journalists were covering that beat. It would take much effort to get up to speed on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are more negative when the firm is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
patterns that could signify an attack or a system failure. A fundamental component of the theory is how the brain represents information differently than computers do. Data entered into a computer—whether numbers or words—need to be...
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reshaping entire industries. The impact of IT extends far beyond the business world, influencing organizational structures, culture, politics, decision-making processes, and society as a whole. IT is fundamentally changing how physical...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
face-to-face with customers, competitors, and new technologies — quickly and efficiently. In the airline industry, for example, computer technology has fundamentally changed how service is delivered, as well as how decisions are made,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes because of Europeanization and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
venture, but the coalition was fundamentally unstable. Quadir was facing roadblocks no matter which way he turned in his quest to assemble the venture. He came to a point where the rational decision seemed to be to abandon the venture and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
reminder that Atlanta is no stranger to entrepreneurial, global enterprise. And that is what the Games have become - a huge commercial and organizational endeavor that is as much about management as it is about medals. Indeed, a world-class management team is now as...
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Garry Emmons
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
significant needs—and they provide a service to the community. The profits from those stores provide funding for employment and training centers, in addition to funding we get through other government and philanthropy sources. So there are over 600 View Details
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
large. Right? Employers feel like they hire too many college grads who can't write, who can't do math, who can't do some of the things that they used to expect, or that they used to associate with a college degree. So that's the View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
coincided with the creation of the modern corporation, the mass market, and America's economic preeminence. Given this vast sweep of time, Koehn's narrations—in a series of original essays and timelines—serve as signposts to readers, helping them View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
to the customer over time. Customer relationships become continuous and open-ended, service becomes more efficient and proactive, and new business models are enabled. The rich data on location and environment that products provide take...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
in U.S. and international samples. Humblebragging: A Distinct—and Ineffective—Self-Presentation Strategy By: Sezer, Ovul, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Self-presentation is a fundamental aspect of social life, with myriad...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on...
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