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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web Author:Marco Iansiti Abstract Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent...
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Martha Lagace
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Finance - Faculty & Research
full recovery: they inefficiently push to prematurely sell assets and strip competing lenders of their priority. We show this creates a tradeoff between secured and unsecured debt that matches recent empirical evidence. While the...
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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
and informally ensure its members embrace proper business standards? Relying on his faculty experience, Michel Anteby takes readers inside the School to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. In an era...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused enormous View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Technology & Innovation Technology & Innovation December 2014 Article The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization By: Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen...
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- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
hold practical implications for managers struggling with low engagement and inefficiency amid a lack of face time and continued pandemic stress. “One of the big insights from our work has been that, just because you went to the meeting...
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by Kristen Senz
- Web
Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Aligning Reimbursement w... Aligning Reimbursement with Value Value-based health care delivery...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
would have far reaching consequences. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209060 PublicationsInstructor's Manual to Accompany Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases....
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
to receive favorable loan terms. First, bank relationships formed through repeated transactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry between the lender and the leveraged buyout firm. Second,...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
high overhead was a sign of inefficiency or even corruption? Or were they simply averse to the notion that their own donation might go toward overhead? To find out, the researchers tested whether participants would be more likely to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Past Issues - Alumni
more residents on the way, making cities successful is key to the planet’s environmental and societal well-being. Water for Life Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (MBA ’87) helped to transform Manila’s rundown metropolitan water system from an View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
forecasts as well as decisions about inventory. In this interview with HBS Working Knowledge, Oliva and Watson say a key to understanding and avoiding supply chain inefficiency may be a better understanding of the behavioral side of the...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Solutions Jeremy Friese, Carlos Jaramillo Business Track Runner-Up Physica Solutions aims to start and operate office-based medical practices to provide minimally-invasive treatment for varicose veins. Supply Solutions Kevin Sousa, Jun Wang Business Track Runner-Up...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
in terms of what information to record? We find that firms benefit more from a knowledge system when they are larger, face the same issues more frequently, have higher turnover, and face problems about which there is less general...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
deductions or credits. "Banks are extremely chary about extending capital to them. Even if they do, banks charge cannabis firms hefty fees." These inefficiencies are compounded by a dearth of capital. Banks face a severe...
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by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
The primary pedagogical rap on it is that it is an inefficient way to teach some things. This is particularly true, the argument goes, if concepts or quantitative techniques are the subject of the day. Why not instead employ an expert to...
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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Some of these barriers are related to inefficiencies in the domestic business environment, for example those captured in the World Bank's Logistical Performance Index (Arvis et al., 2010). Others are related to market access abroad, for...
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by Christian Ketels