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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
outcomes of an organization’s immediate interventions or the ability to affect system-wide change. By graphing the two levels of scale against the two levels of impact, we have constructed a four-quadrant framework. Quadrant #1 focuses on the activities of a single...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the teens every year, so they’re always bringing in new folks. And they want to make sure that they become trained very, very quickly. And if I can literally show someone guided workflow, they become more efficient faster. Imagine this:...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
herd of elephants in Ghana? Working for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) might seem like a logical step, but Andrew Murphy (MBA ’07), director of strategy, research, and development at the WWF’s Markets Group, would disagree. He insists his...
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- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
address pollution. IVL developed an important role as knowledge producer and as an intermediary of environmental knowledge between the late 1960s and the 1980s. The proactive response of Swedish big business is shown to have been based on a belief that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
occupation or possession by grant/gift, and tributary or chieftaincy. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54766 Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
never work late or on weekends. I’ve found that if you work efficiently during the day, you can “just leave” at 5:30 or 6. These are pretty simple things, but over the years the effect of being home for dinner and to see the kids added...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
to avoid notice, and makeshift printing machines. As students of the sciences, the ink-smudged underground printers of Mikrus were not content with the samizdat method of reproducing leaflets, so they built their own more efficient...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the equity View Details
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by Carla Tishler
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
manufacturing components and processes change, and IT security becomes the job of every function. Companies need different skills and expertise, which creates new imperatives for HR. In the marketing function, the ability to track a...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
goods sold in a profit-seeking enterprise. Expenses charged to HBP, HBX, and Executive Education include direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside professional services in I.T. and other functional areas, and marketing and...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
2016, driven by notable successes in our revenue-generating units. Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) continued to manage volatility in its markets by enhancing its content offerings and investing in its digital platform. Executive...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
particularly, credit to those institutions? You’ve been a leader at Eastern in using so-called “fintech advanced technology” to automate small business lending. Is Covid going to accelerate that? Is it going to change that? How are you thinking about your go-to View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
independence without sacrificing energy security in the EU. The case chronicles latest efforts, and unintended consequences, by all-union authorities in Brussels to untie the Russian knot by implanting American inventions in the European soil: liberalized, transparent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers we added over the last couple of months, Eric Schmidt almost fell out of his chair, and he said, "What did you say? This is incredible. Do you need more marketing...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
employee experience, so that as organizations grew, you'd have consistent experiences, but it was mainly focused on efficiencies and productivity. And we stayed there for a long time. This is where centers of excellence started and policy...
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