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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to be done, moves towards more strategic and creative work and a lot of the core functions of providing and manufacturing tend to get concentrated in a handful of companies and geographies. I think the companies we work with in the United...
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- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
firmsare more likely to adopt processinnovations and why. The empirical context is the adoption of e-business practices among U.S. manufacturing plants in early 2000. Based on detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search will only present more...
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- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many products are View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
650,000 employers. From the start, the venture has forged close ties with colleges and universities—more than 1,400 at last count. In place of on-campus career fairs and recruiting visits, Handshake provides an integrated set of tools to...
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- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
being born globally—chasing opportunities created by distance, learning to manage faraway operations, and hunting for the planet's best manufacturing locations, brightest talent, most willing investors, and most profitable customers...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
presented in mid-May 1995 to 650 students and some 70 faculty members and administrators by students coached in case-method teaching. "Using the tools we've learned at HBS, it served as a catalyst for the SA to solicit direction, ideas,...
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- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
adopting an experimental platform on which information was measured separately from solutions, we were able to reconcile past contradictions and clarify the effects of network clustering on problem-solving performance. The finding both provides a sharper View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This article then identifies more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to, and marketing of, an individually held commitment...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
services. Poindexter: The constraints that we've had have inspired creative solutions, and those creative solutions have been access to better profitability, better tools for serving our customers who are incredibly poor, and so we need...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
manufacture LSD. You can’t get traction. Just don’t go there. (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) Sahlman was daunted, but he...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
school's leaders were closely involved in progressive reforms and presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The case explains the four main new tools for monetary policy (or quantitative easing) the Federal Reserve has...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
jailed again, this time for armed robbery. After five years, the child was taken back by a member of her biological family. Two years later, as the meth crisis raged on, Langford had a phone call from Lee Shaw, formerly of Shaw Industries, a leading carpet View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
manufacturing supply facilities in Southeast Asia live during the pandemic remotely in a 30-day period. Kerr: Juergen, I’m curious. You mentioned earlier the compensation side of the business.Lindner: Yes.Kerr: As you move toward SaaS...
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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Course MaterialsAdobe Systems: Working Towards a 'Suite' Release (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-014 The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and tension as Adobe prepares to...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
definition, unlike every other training or workforce development pathway or option, apprenticeships are full-time jobs that pay you a living wage.Kerr: Going back, obviously the beginning of U.S. history and then through manufacturing and...
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- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large social welfare gains from using...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
coming to visit you and say, “I’m thinking about setting up an apprenticeship program”—maybe not in healthcare, maybe I’m a manufacturer or financial institution, what are the three or four things you would tell me that have allowed you...
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