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- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
risks—a process that can release more equity capacity. Finally, Merton argues, the job of managing the company's derivatives portfolio should not be delegated to in-house financial experts. The strategic...
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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
can economic actors take actions to influence the market outcome so that a "technologically inferior" outcome arises? We conclude that while both technological progress (measured by releases of newer and better versions of...
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- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
advantage of this maneuver is real: strategic defaulters save money. Sometimes they can rent a comparable home. But they risk a lower credit rating, which could bar them from buying another home for up to seven years. Understandably, most...
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- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
releasing information that Fox News Channel could use to attack them in the months leading up to the election. Specifically, the firms chose to delay releasing disappointing financial information until the...
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- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his...
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- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
fundamental fact of life, choices necessarily have to be made about which challenges to address and the best way to tackle them. In this piece, we discuss the distinction between these distinct components of priority setting in health: the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
cooperation with Amazon? Are there other strategic partners to consider? As the largest publisher in the world, should Random House take a stand on e-book pricing and royalty rates? Finally, if the entire structure of the book publishing...
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- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
to try to understand the boundaries of giving away intellectual property for free versus having it closed. We have not reached any formal conclusions. We are seeing possibilities that we need to rethink our intellectual property strategies. It’s really a View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
dramatically since several large public institutions (for instance, the California Public Employees Retirement System and the University of Texas Investment Management Company) have released onto the Internet the returns from the funds in...
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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Working Papers Competition As Strategic Interaction By: Eisenhardt, Kathleen, Rory McDonald, and Cheng Gao Abstract—Strategic interaction has been a topic of scholarly inquiry dating back to the 1960s. Drawing on several seminal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245 Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book publishers wrangled with e-book retailers over royalty rates, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
impossible to create any other way, that becomes your foundation for better-informed decisions and plans. Information isn’t available for the asking. Because it truly is power, people often hoard it, releasing it only to those they know...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
organizational energy released / management time and attention invested. Q: Why do managers benefit from "calculating" the results of this device? A: Not all that long ago, life was different for most of us. We didn't have to deal with...
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Re: Robert Simons
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
is consistent with strategic trade models in which export subsidies improve the competitive positions of firms in imperfectly competitive markets. Download paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=483483 The Effectiveness...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
career in venture capital private equity to launch a global movement that has brought together governments with service providers and has attracted private investment to pay for a variety of social programs. One such program in 2010 reached out to help 2,000 young...
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