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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
short-term debt. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/Comparative_Advantage_paper_20140623.pdf August 2013 Management Science Marketplace or Reseller? By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
encourage investment in the energy sector would also boost competitiveness. What are attractive investment opportunities in India? Sectors that require technical and labor-intensive input, such as software services, business process outsourcing facilities, and call...
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- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
transactions, products, and customers. Anderson, after graduation in 1995, worked at McKinsey where he got the idea for using time equations to estimate how the capacity demands by a transaction vary based on all the contingencies that introduce View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
challenging conditions, such as the following, are present: When cultures clash. Negotiators from diverse organizational, professional, or national cultures often bring clashing assumptions to the table. As Ming-Jer Chen, the former...
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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface or a new video game console. "Input...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
report suggests that while the change dismantled the institutional structure used to administer the recognition system industry-wide, it did not prevent agencies and media suppliers from continuing the same practices individually. That...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2303862 Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets By: Marquis, Christopher, and Mia Raynard Abstract—We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which organizations navigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Business School Case 415-047 BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success In July 2014, the Global Executive Committee (GEC) for BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, held a two-day offsite to discuss the state of talent within...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
between keeping one's distance and staying involved. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-114.pdf Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan R., and Ramana Nanda...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
their research. Faculty presenters were paired with one or more business executives and other experts who added insightful commentary to the topic under discussion. The presentations reflected the wide diversity of interests pursued by...
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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines," the researchers conclude in their paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. "Boeing's unique...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jom.2014.09.008 March 2015 Management Science Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—In fields as View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in the International Labour...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
making sure that those employees advance to the senior ranks, and that our recruitment in the senior ranks has been intentional in that regard, and we know we needed to do better. When we looked at our supplier View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
particular, supportive incumbent industrial structures for input and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
emphasis on coordinating and communicating with the center's many diverse leaders. "Many nonprofits are led by people who only know programs, not operations," Grossman says. "A key strength of Levy's is knowing how to...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand for its final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, which is only now partially closing. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurship-Multinationals-Global-Business-Making/dp/1781951942 August 2013 The European Financial Review Motivating View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Marketing unit. But not anymore. The Second Internet Wave A second wave of Internet disruption threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries as View Details
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by Michael Blanding