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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
with an increase in service quality, in this setting there is no significant relationship between service quality and profitability. My findings highlight the importance of attending to process discipline in certain service settings. They...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. Choosing the shortest tasks first is particularly detrimental for speed. Batching is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 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
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
(forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
disastrous effects of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Another class participant pointed to an example of high-value data use documented in the Data.gov case study: In Virginia where there were problems with a bidding process,...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
development of the new Asia-Pacific Research Office. As the HBS faculty increases its activities in Asia, the School must stay in touch with academics and practitioners who live there, Hayes observed. "Perhaps in the process of getting to...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Streamline approvals. A complicated decision process can burden the fund with too many goals and lead to ineffective investing patterns. Provide powerful incentives. Companies that don't offer adequate compensation to their venture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are hoping to forestall a third...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209012 TCS: The MCA 21 Project Harvard Business School Case 609-024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based in India, must decide whether to...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
organizational processes among corporations and nonprofits. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmarquis/GolfingAlone_FINAL.pdf Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Response: How China's Environmental Enforcement Is Catching Up to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
industries may split apart. Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Periodical:Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2, Psychology Press, forthcoming Abstract Negotiation is a...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect to intellectual property (IP) allows firms to better capture value in situations where knowledge and value...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
financial advisor, Barclays Capital, had also been working with KKR and its partners to create a bid process that could favor them. In addition to the fee from Del Monte for advising on a successful sale,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Society Has Social Science Taken Over Electoral Campaigns and Should We Regret It? By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51036 May 2016 Harvard Business Review Embracing Agile: How to Master...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
critical opinions about the company’s management and wary of a corporate takeover, 26-year-old Warwick launched a successful takeover bid that was worth about $1.5 billion in US dollars. Just three years after Warwick’s takeover, the...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37 years old, was in the View Details
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)