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- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
digital assets are (they're not always obvious). A team of senior managers from across the company should take an inventory of data and systems, assess how valuable each is to the company, and decide how much risk the company can absorb...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
describes how investors can—and do—pay closer attention to retailers' inventory levels. “When it comes to implementing science in retailing, the 'missionary' is more important than the scientist.” Raman, who specializes in operations...
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- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
their control for leadership effectiveness. He suggested that tribal leadership, described in a book by the same name, is “a perfect fit for the fast moving networks of the Seventh Sense.” It describes organizations formed around natural...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
inventory without the use of technology," says John Jong-Hyun Kim, a senior lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg fellow at Harvard Business School. "And yet, schools have been slow to adopt and integrate technology in the...
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- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
norton ariely.pdf Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers? Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Firm-level sales...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
in, in the Arrow case as Chief Operating Officer of the company? Did you start at the top? BJ Hess: I wish I had started at the top. No, actually I don't. I started very far from the top of the company. It was a job, it was not a career, I was the View Details
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54490 May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Most leaders view employee...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
benefit from revealing unit cost information to consumers. A natural field experiment conducted with an online retailer suggests that cost transparency boosts sales. Six subsequent controlled lab experiments replicate this basic effect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
even after controlling for the focal district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for incumbent conditions in 2000-2005. The results highlight that the traits of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016
an artifact of soundtrack alone because attitudes toward sharks did not differ among participants assigned to audio-only control treatments. This is the first study to demonstrate empirically that the connotative attributes of background...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in "sin" industries, and exhibiting commitment to IR. I find that the results are robust to the inclusion of firm fixed effects, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated firms that View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a local appliance store, which held...
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