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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital gain of 1.2 billion, 13% of...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of...
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- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
markets, where customers needed more customization. We found weak evidence of better financial results where salespeople had lower creative talent before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
marketing of pottery, I could go back to the few 18th-century newspapers in Britain; when I am chasing Abraham Lincoln down for the book I am currently writing, I can gather rich information from newspapers of his era. So the Times...
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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
of success is that a manager may not realize the need to constantly adapt strategy—the old adage “when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail” may apply. The careers of several long-time successful NFL coaches help shed light on...
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- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most valuable customers, those with the longest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which information sharing systems affect employees’ creative work. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53887 2018 Handbook of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
occurrence of organizational errors. Further, in the light of a recurring critique of prior error-related organizational studies as being narrowly context-bound and therefore of limited interest to organizational researchers in general,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
manufacturing components and processes change, and IT security becomes the job of every function. Companies need different skills and expertise, which creates new imperatives for HR. In the marketing function, the ability to track a...
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- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
about professional ritual, rhythms, and disciplines that underlie the general approach to what they did with the music as well. If you look at how theater ensembles work, there is a notion at the People's Light & Theatre Company, a...
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