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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
protectionist reversals together mean that few companies can afford to remain focused on their domestic markets. Managers responsible for marketing in a multinational or global enterprise must design appropriate marketing programs for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
directors and thematic working groups that shared information, drove partnerships, and facilitated investment across businesses and the municipality. These contracts were not branded as “sustainability” initiatives – they were just viewed...
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- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument for the intermediary, thereby showing that it occurs even when...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
labor policy and the economy. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52552 Bundling Incentives in (Many-to-Many) Matching with Contracts By: Ma, Jonathan, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—In many-to-many...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in manufacturing plants where it had implemented teaming, which was designed to move decision making as close to the product as possible by delegating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active...
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- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
(Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 705-441 Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are initially drawn from a known multivariate normal distribution. Mean-variance optimization is designed to produce the highest ratio of excess portfolio return to portfolio standard...
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Martha Lagace
- 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 View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
protocols. In the new model, stroke care would be delivered across facilities in an integrated fashion, with a single hyper-acute facility designed for the care of the most acute and severe cases. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
in revenue growth by taking aggressive steps to limit its operating costs. The publishing group used fewer contract resources than planned, while postponing certain capital projects and vendor agreements. As a result, the School’s total...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51237 2016 The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
patterns. We present a model where beliefs determine the types of contracts that firms offer and whether workers exert effort. Some workers become criminals, depending on their luck in the labor market, the expected punishment, and an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
automakers, but a psychological one,” Salter observes. “It required altering long-established methods, traditions, and ways of thinking. It comes down to this: How do you rewrite all the implicit, explicit, and inefficient contracts and...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
technologies, services, and products available through the ecosystem. In doing this, niche strategies trade off risk with productivity. Strong economies can often be found by niche players by leveraging a single platform—for example, NVIDIA can optimize its View Details
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
advantage of our program as possible,” Huntsman says. To that end, CEC partnered with D.A.R.E., a nonprofit known for its youth-oriented antidrug and antiviolence outreach, to create a program designed especially for juvenile offenders....
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Anthony Tan and COO Hooi Ling Tan (no relation to one another) expanded their Grab car-hailing app to Jakarta in June 2014. Later that year, Uber launched its car service in the city. Grab had started as MyTeksi in Malaysia in 2012, View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents hired by a public...
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Sean Silverthorne