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- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
and form teams ("circles"). The guidelines for the effort are spelled out in a 30-page "Constitution" used as the basis for orienting associates to the new form of organizing work. Self-management is not a new idea....
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a phased social process. By aggregating previously encountered solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g., construction, analysis, or intervention), and value considerations. As our understanding of this emerging field of study grows, we become aware that...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
What's in a name? Plenty if you're a consumer marketer trying to build a brand. "They are road signs that help people find orientation in the jungle of supply", said Hans G. Gueldenberg, CEO of Nestlé Deutschland AG. According...
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by James E. Aisner
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant debt...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
effects of signals generated by different types of networks on new ventures' formation of future strategic alliances. We argue that the signaling value of a given tie in reducing adverse selection is more pronounced when another type of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
barriers to terminating relationships), the nature of performance change (a gradual decay in performance can increase the likelihood that firms will persevere in underperforming relationships), organizational factors (for example, an emphasis on customer View Details
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further increases in competitive forces...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
staffing, services, physical space, strategic guidance and more — are popping up in the private sector almost as fast as the dot.com companies they hope to hatch. They're pulling in veteran entrepreneurs and established Internet players...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
aligned. It was what we call in the book "forging strategic identity." Sometimes, usually with startups, this is done at the beginning of the CEO's tenure. In other instances this way of thinking develops over time. This process is often...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
resulting from the liberalization of the Turkish economy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811081-PDF-ENG Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange Josh Lerner and Keith Chi-ho WongHarvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49869 October 2015 Harvard Business Review Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are? By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—A manager decides whether he should hide his sexual orientation...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
instructor, and later as a strategist for the Pentagon: O: Observe O: Orientate D: Decide A: Act Boyd's insight came from the need to develop a strategic approach—simple in nature, easy to execute and...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
organizations transition to these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to transitions to platform, open/user...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
together at every level—from the core central concepts of the strategy to the minute details of execution. New World, New Roles When companies generally made their money in a large number of mid-sized accounts, marketing was typically seen as the View Details
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by Benson Shapiro
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Strategic Management Expertise? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao Publication:Boston University Law Review 90, no. 4 (August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the Paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
shareholders as well as other interested stakeholders with rather elaborate information on the company's operations and strategic activities during the preceding fiscal year. However, in the last two decades and in addition to these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its...
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Sean Silverthorne