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- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
extract maximum value from technologies such as point-of-sale scanners and customer loyalty cards. Highly readable and compelling, The New Science of Retailing is your playbook for turning all that data into a wellspring for new profits...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
responded to the deterioration in Merrill Lynch's position in the first quarter. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310092-PDF-ENG Note on the Asset Management Industry Clayton Rose, Scott WaggonerHarvard Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
marketer, fundamental questions include how much of the customer value created can be extracted by the firm and how to justify the price that one sets for the customer. When students learn that a hammer pad basically consists of coiled...
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by Garry Emmons
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
something into mechanisms within that machine that allow the process to become routine and repeatable. Let’s use an example. Many of us have seen glassblowers who manipulate a glowing hot lump of molten glass and shape it into a bottle or some other shape. That artisan...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-003 ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
are creating societal value in the process or simply helping each other extract as much money as possible from the customer base. Avoiding Parasitic Integration The term parasitic integration is not intended to insult most value-creating...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
individual is an increasingly common issue. Industrial Revolution thinking tries to get around it by trying to extract expertise from individuals and systematize it; the golden goose doesn't exist because...
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- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns, which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
compete on the basis of brands and reputation, and in sectors where companies' products significantly depend upon extracting large amounts of natural resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-035.pdf The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
understands his side's massive advantages in the process. With the economic fate of Welz's newly public smaller firm in the balance, Welz and his team must figure out how to handle some very tough tactics by Spitzer and his minions aimed at View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
pioneered shipbuilding techniques that not only allowed him to build ships at unprecedented rates, but he also spurred the whole shipbuilding industry to do the same. His fame made him the object of envy and scorn for shipbuilders all...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
banks to roll over their short-term debt. We document that there was a simultaneous run by borrowers who drew down their credit lines, leading to a spike in commercial and industrial loans reported on bank balance sheets. We examine...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
nonfinancial information that has not yet been provided. Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective Author:G. Jones Publication:EurAmerica 41, no. 4 (December 2011) Abstract This paper uses the beauty industry to explore...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. The primary explanation for the profitability of bundling relies on homogenization of consumer valuations for the bundle, allowing the firm to extract more surplus. We find bundling can be...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
what-if and formal optimization approach). We discuss pros and cons of these approaches and illustrate them through applications and case studies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-069.pdf Positions of Power and Status: Reciprocity in the Venture...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
venture-funded startups in the networking/data communications industry sectors reveals that those startups that participate in an open standards community, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), have a greater likelihood of...
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