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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
variety of industries use this approach. Bush Boake Allen (BBA), a global supplier of specialty flavors to companies like Nestlé, has built a tool kit that enables its customers to develop their own flavors, which BBA then manufactures....
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by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
of going with Carlyle as a buyout partner, and then (ii) increasing the value of that business following the buyout. Since the profitability of a buyout depends on finding high-quality deals, the firm has focused to date on leveraging its contacts in the banking...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
organizations had 512 trustees and numerous senior staff. Levy oversees the Lincoln, but has no hiring or firing power within its organizations. Like many nonprofits, Lincoln Center has both thrived and struggled over the years. By the...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
used to characterize the jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing political powers at the IASB and own potential political power at the IASB. Based on how countries are classified along these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50234 December 2015 Harvard Business Review What Is Disruptive Innovation? By: Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald Abstract—For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products—and discusses New Balance's operations decisions to support that strategy. These include significant use of domestic manufacturing at a time when nearly all other competitors sourced finished shoes from...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
required by participants and those provided by suppliers (“the skills gap”) and the gap that separates skill acquisition from skill application (“the skills transfer gap”). We canvass the literature on skill measurement, acquisition, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
inspiration and guidance do you think retailers could draw from the Toyota Production System (TPS)? A: TPS highlights include the power of focusing and executing the operational details; the vital role of continuous process improvement;...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
challenges and opportunities posed by digital platforms, The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power is a new book by Harvard Business School Professor David B. Yoffie and coauthors Michael...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
happened in natural gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And, there's always money to be saved in industrial sourcing. If management really focuses on purchasing and puts effort into it, you can always save money by creating more competition between View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new auditors with each audit. The answer: Audit teams revisiting the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has been on Fortune's list of the 50...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
the identities separate). We suggest that the alignment or misalignment of these pressures and preferences shapes peoples' experience of the power relationship between themselves and their organization/occupation and affects how they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Astrachan, Pieper M. Pieper and Peter Jaskiewicz. The International Library of Critical Writings on Business and Management Series. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009 Abstract Providing clear goals for a company and communicating them are among the most...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
culture and to protect organizationally powerful groups—in our case, men and the firm’s leaders—and in so doing sustain workplace inequality. Due to the social defense, two orthodoxies remain unchallenged—the necessity of long work hours...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted...
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Sean Silverthorne