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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
decentralized nature. The content industry must find ways to embrace the new technology and profit from it. Q: What are the practical "takeaways" for managers in related areas? A: At a broad level, in designing new business...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
conducted business in 120 countries—had shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test....
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
California, policy mattered a great deal. However, Danish firms, building on inherited technological capabilities and benefitting from a small-scale and decentralized industrial structure, benefitted more from Californian public policies....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to...
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- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other such pairs. The situation facing such pairs resembles models of the "double coincidence of wants," and relatively few exchanges have been consummated by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to internal employee use cases as well. Kerr: Tell us about how you are—at Morningstar, just in general—building your AI strategy. Is it something that’s very centralized? With 10,000 colleagues around the world, is it decentralized to...
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- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align the previously View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
1997, 2002). This paper explains how state governments got the funds to pay for education and examines the incentives that politicians had to spend on education between 1889 and 1930. Our findings are threefold. First, we show that the Constitution of 1891, which View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
school board, where it is used to monitor and guide the district's accomplishments. The implementation, however, hits some problems when the superintendent resigns, followed by high turnover among his replacements. Enables a discussion of the role of centralization...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
distributed approach to building institutional knowledge and shared culture Life sciences cloud software company Veeva's origins as a highly decentralized organization and its early adoption of video conferencing paid off when Covid-19...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
markets differed, but the belief in local autonomy and decentralized decision-making became a core value within the company .Meanwhile, the largest American consumer products company remained cautious about international markets. During...
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- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
through which frontline staff can share and learn new ideas, especially for those who feel safe to speak up and believe that new ideas are not tested frequently enough. Practice Implications: The contest’s potential to decentralize...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We also use indices of export prices for each state as...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
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Management Science Track Credit Course Overview The "Web3" paradigm represents a new way of doing business on the Internet, leveraging decentralized platforms running on blockchain infrastructure. And just like the first and second waves...
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