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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration Authors:E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino, and L. Argote Publication:Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration." Organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
corporate practices, and the persona of the expert witness. This paper describes an actor-network coming into being and shows how credible institutions, organizations that manufacture integrity as their main sellable product, adopted a...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
process as well as attempting, in parallel, a strategic sale to create a competitive bidding process. Ak Gıda was cofounded in 1996 by the Ulker and Topbas families as a result of a joint vertical View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
assessment from the solving phase. In most cases, innovators engage simultaneously in definition/solution/assessment stages and iteratively define the problem and its solution. Open innovation breaks this vertical View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
the Intel 8086 to the world’s largest and most sophisticated information processing organization, the International Business Machines Corporation. IBM epitomized the computer industry as it had been for at least two decades: vertically...
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- March 2016
- Case
IC Group A/S
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on...
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IC Group;
IC Companys;
Carli Gry;
InWear;
Mads Ryder;
Niels Martinsen;
Premium Fashion;
Fast Fashion;
Business Units;
Business Divisions;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Profit;
Revenue;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Business or Company Management;
Acquisition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Distribution Channels;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Segmentation;
Web Sites;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
Scandinavia;
Denmark;
Sweden;
Norway
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "IC Group A/S." Harvard Business School Case 716-446, March 2016.
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
has been successful in up markets, in the current down market its strategic rationale was being tested. As a capital-intensive manufacturer of DRAMs that had to license its designs from abroad, was it able to compete with large vertically...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
founders are faced with the challenge of how to maintain growth. Do they vertically integrate more into the back-end, or should they try to do acquisitions in adjacent markets? The case is intended to be...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
education around academic disciplines, explains Joel Podolny, dean of the Yale School of Management and a participant in the March colloquium. (He previously was a professor at HBS.) “The strict disciplinary model of management education arose at a time of large, View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
several key features of intermediated supply chains. We complement the model's insights with observations from a numerical study. Results: In the absence of an e-intermediary, auctions cause farmers to either overproduce or underproduce compared to their ideal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
even cartels treat them as valid and often successful forms of business enterprise rather than inferior options to large, vertically integrated firms. Q: Is there a major theme running through the book? A:...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
corruption, which increases managerial credibility. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law enforcement and more widespread assurance of sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
show that this surge in suppliers’ liability risk had a large and negative impact on downstream innovation in medical implants, but it had no significant effect on upstream polymer patenting. Our findings suggest that liability risk can percolate throughout a View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
property right allocations, we find that studio-financed films receive superior marketing investments compared to independent films and that these investments fully mediate the positive effect of vertical View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight control and enabled their companies to grow, Bartlett says, "it also fragmented resources and...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some analogous work on View Details
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Martha Lagace