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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
the financial capital of the world was fully functional and that terrorism would not stop the American economy. Secondly, the city's economy needed to have the exchange back in business." (The city's financial sector generates 26 percent of the city's economic View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
Abstract—Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
popular notion of management by walking around, management by standing still may offer untapped value: installing privacy curtains around several production lines improved defect-free output by 10 percent, a result he terms the...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have...
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- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
model choices aimed at increasing volume such as building new stores, increasing product variety, everyday low prices (EDLP), and high-powered incentives for store managers. Input and output prices played a smaller role under David Glass...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a cost on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online AI Course | HBS Online
components and outputs of the AI factory. Highlights Dr. Alan Qi, Vice President and AI Chief Scientist, Ant Group Florian Hillen, CEO, VideaHealth Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School...
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- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
while helping data analysis providers understand how to create output that end users will value. Culture.com: How the Best Startups Make It Happen by Robert Stringer (MBA 1966) Crimson Seed Capital Publishing When entrepreneurs seek...
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- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches the outputs of these two production systems. The company has also built extensive expertise in accessing the many mortgage and funding...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
power plants were financed with long-term fixed price contracts for both inputs (gas supply) and outputs (and electricity purchase). More recently, "merchant plants" were financed without the benefit of long-term contracts,...
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- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
and output of analysts in emerging-market contexts. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54281 Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship By: Dillon, Eleanor W., and Christopher T....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on investment and output throughout the period but no significant impact on employment during the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007
particular, we let the upstream firm's marginal cost be private information, unknown to the downstream firms. The previous literature has argued that vertical integration is harmful because it allows an upstream monopolist to limit output...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
“helps businesses provide this increasingly important information in a more rationalized way.” Massie's energy and output is even more remarkable given the fact that some twenty years ago, he acquired HIV in the course of his many...
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- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. In this case students explore the challenges of using sentiment analysis to monitor and understand public perception around brands. Technical topics include building a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
at the Switch? Frank V. Cespedes and Diane BadameHarvard Business School Case 913-505 PV Technologies, Inc. is an industry-leading manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters used to convert the direct current output of solar panels into...
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Sean Silverthorne