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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
of Pennsylvania, is codirector of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management. An excerpt from their book follows our interview. Martha Lagace: In a nutshell, what is rocket science retailing? Ananth Raman: It means...
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- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
commensurate with those of other decorative art objects. After 1995, following a movement among critics, art historians, academics, and players such as galleries and auction houses, the same art was classified as modernist and therefore...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
(Baldini & Castoldi) Forchielli offers sardonic advice to Italians, as seen in the book’s blurb in the Italian Amazon: If you are young, quick, just emigrate. Read a lot, especially the foreign press. If you do not know English, at least learn to read. Avoid View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
business for 20 years. Its acquisition of Jet.com, however, let Walmart aggressively expand the top line of its platform revenue and bring in a team that understood platforms. Although still far behind Amazon, Walmart’s acquisition of Jet.com finally turned Walmart...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that we recruit a lot for. Why do I care if you learned Python in a four-year college degree, or if you took it at a class at a community college, or you learned it in the military, or you taught yourself online at night? I don't, as long...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the process, like many other companies, of automation. We’ve got new businesses that we are trying to activate. And one of those things that we have had tremendous success with, with respect to the past, since the pandemic, candidly, has been View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
assess how things were going but not too soon to tap into their collective insights on launching a new venture. Private or nonprofit sector, up market or down, the observations that follow highlight the many approaches to what it means to...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
significant dilution under any restructuring plan. The current chairman and CEO has been with the company for only a year and a half, following a decade of senior management turbulence in which the company has seen nine different CEOs and...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
problem of general management thinking that, because they have a policy and they have a procedure and they have a manual, that it’s actually being followed and executed against. I think the second thing is, many of these types of outcomes...
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
governance. Following the dispelling of these myths, the authors then examine several lessons of more recent Chinese history, exploring where this young country has been in its first century. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
from the developed to the developing country and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. Consistent with the model, we observe that the flow of technologies from N to S co-moves positively with output in both N and S. After calibrating the model to Mexico and the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45468 August 2013 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United States. The field was developed by entrepreneurs like Roger Babson...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
employment activity. This retrenchment follows both Senate and House committee chair changes, occurs in large and small firms and within large and small states, and is most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
consist of action research and interviews with managers and artists involved in innovation and processes of creation, and our intention is to explore the following questions: How do business innovators know when to keep things open and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
across the river at Harvard College and at other locations throughout the University. Speaking on behalf of Dean Kim B. Clark, who was in New Mexico and unable to return due to airline travel restrictions, longtime faculty member Professor James I. Cash View Details
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between how people anticipate preferences and their subsequent preferences. We examine the film rental and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
city's Mission Bay neighborhood.) In addition to a current portfolio of 60 companies, Rock Health organizes industry events such as its annual Health Innovation Summit and offers aspiring entrepreneurs free access to its online Startup...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
with the orchestra. The post was followed by a series of conducting positions in the United States (Alabama’s Huntsville Symphony and the Houston Symphony) and Mexico (the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa) before his guest-conducting stints...
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