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- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
chosen to designate an individual as a business leader (i.e., CEO), regardless of specific title, if he or she was regarded as the primary and, in some cases, sole leader in setting the company's direction, allocating resources, and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
margin to a core group of loyal users and you don't talk much about market share? (Market researchers pinpoint the Mac share at 2 to 4 percent of the overall PC market.) Is this a viable strategy for Apple? A: Over the long run, no. There are two View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
simultaneously reduce their domestic activity? This paper analyzes the relationship between the domestic and foreign operations of American manufacturing firms between 1982 and 2004 by instrumenting for changes in foreign operations with...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
review of his company's impressive sustainable development efforts over the past five years (which fill a twenty-page brochure) quickly reveals why Fortune magazine has dubbed Johnson "corporate America's leading environmentalist." Since 1990, S.C. Johnson & Son has...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus connecting tools with thrusts....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
become managing editor. He then moved to Harvard Business Publishing, where he became editorial director, with primary responsibility for Harvard Business Review. Also the author of Office Hours: A Guide to the Managerial Life, a...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
way. It was Primary Day. As was his habit on this occasion of civic duty, Joseph J. Lhota (MBA '80) had risen early at his Brooklyn Heights home in order to vote at his local polling place before departing for Lower Manhattan and his City...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
on clinician productivity in ambulatory settings. Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth (n = 42) over 3 years (695 practice-month observations). Practices were...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
trial attorney in corporate litigation, Shuster-Haynes has been the primary caregiver for their children. She maintains a disciplined writing schedule, as well, by carving out time while the children are in school and by working late at...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
function of an outside care obligation than women. That may reflect the fact that women made better initial choices, their choices informed by the assumption that they’re going to have a significant, usually in most households, primary...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
editors at Harvard Business Press, suggested the Times project to me; and as a historian I thought it would be a terrific opportunity to gain deep exposure to the primary source reporting that newspapers afford. When I was doing research...
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- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF), the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), and the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (AMLF). Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an intervention-involving free,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
learn advanced manufacturing given the advent of more robotics in the manufacturing environment, or to learn sales and break into, say, tech sales. These are many different pathways that our employers have...
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- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
has been successful in up markets, in the current down market its strategic rationale was being tested. As a capital-intensive manufacturer of DRAMs that had to license its designs from abroad, was it able to compete with large vertically...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Chicago really exists for one primary reason: it's a transport hub. It was a transport hub 200 years ago. It's a transport hub today, whether it's originally stagecoaches, canoes or people on foot or today, railroad, air, or data. Chicago...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
executives set standards for leadership. As good as the late 1980s were to forest products company Boise Cascade (BC) Corporation, the early 1990s spelled near disaster for its primary business — making plain, white copier paper. Like...
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Nancy O. Perry