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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
alcoholic beverage to a sophisticated natural product and fine accompaniment for gourmet food. By creating wine as a symbol of social status, the reimagined wine industry became a reinforcer of social and class divisions in the United...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural strength and the will of a one-party government. Meeting the growing demands of...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
crowds can be expected to provide wisdom and show, theoretically and empirically, that their efficacy is related to crowd sophistication and task complexity. Consistent with this framework, we find that a "crowd-of-crowds" approach, which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
late 2009, Marisa worked in acquisitions at Douglas Private Equity Advisors. During the first year Marisa spent a lot of her time reviewing documents, making site visits, and running numbers, using a sophisticated software program called...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
broad-based government guarantees to one with market discipline exerted by sophisticated and at-risk investors in bank debt. The federal government should not be encouraging mergers among large institutions in the financial sector, which...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Increasingly, the case method is being used to teach sophisticated techniques like valuation, forecasting, and competitive analysis. These techniques are essential to modern business literacy and are required for employment at investment...
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by David A. Garvin
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
"traded businesses"—like manufacturing, sophisticated services, and tourism that are exposed to international competition—and local ones. For any large population there are a lot of local needs—food, housing, utilities—but...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way that makes this View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
environment, there are hopeful signs that sophisticated management teams are reevaluating their rush offshore and, in some instances, are moving high-end mobile activities back to the United States. Read the article:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
both coercive options and upside potential, as international negotiators have often done, works against this integrated strategy. If this approach opens a zone of possible agreement, sophisticated negotiation will be key to reaching a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
members of the platform community policing themselves? Facebook, for example, has about 30,000 people working on curation of the Facebook platform. The problem is there are more than 2.5 billion users. Thirty thousand people, even with the help of AI and View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
how companies, especially those based in developed economies, compete. To survive, companies and their managers will adapt. As some are now beginning to realize, an important part of that adaptation will require a new understanding of art and art making, a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government planners recognized the challenges of...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
sophisticated set of financial incentives that are applied to both administrative and clinical staff. The case allows students to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of financial incentives in clinical medicine. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
testing lab by which I test advertising software and look for fraud. Some of them are manual while others are automated. There's no reason why I should have more sophisticated tools than online advertisers, yet in practice many online...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
it articulated a set of foundational concepts. As early as 1900, some firms chose to differentiate their products in order to do a better job of satisfying customers' diverse needs. In subsequent years, the marketing discipline developed increasingly View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Your Customer Relationships By: Avery, Jill, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker Abstract—Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
simply the calm before the storm? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/vodafone-in-japan-a/an/711464-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 711-469 Vodafone in Japan (B) By 2005, Vodafone Group was losing its footing in the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
to get financially sophisticated people out of the system.' The worst is to say 'financial engineer.' I suggest it's just the opposite. The problem, in part, is that senior managers, regulatory overseers, and members of boards of these...
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