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- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
training, accounting and information systems, design and engineering, and so on. Business history has widened its scope enormously in the last two decades. A striking feature of the research reviewed in the Handbook is that so much of it...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
market and chose to develop its brand not through expensive advertising but by building core values, client trust, and leveraging Murthy's personal integrity and principles. In 2011, the company introduced its new brand positioning,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
heard was about the value added of an MBA degree. In every interview, deans and executives returned repeatedly to that question, as well as to a large set of unmet needs that they identified in areas such as leadership development, skill at critical, creative, and...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
integrated chain. The presence of an e-intermediary with limited market share improves farmers' profits; however, if the e-intermediary grows too large, it negatively impacts both farmers' and supply chain profits. Finally, as the number...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users and also open collaborative...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
businesses, each of which was not performing up to its full potential, it was uncompetitive. The chairman of the group, Ratan Tata, creatively reorganized the business to make it survive in the new open global economy, and then challenged his group of companies to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
theoretical extensions of the proposed integrated theory. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product Author:Deishin Lee Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
the project; the partner was also required to integrate some local smallholders into the production chain. In December 2009, Codevasf was almost ready to start accepting bids for Pontal. For Clementino de Souza Coelho, director of...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
transform their organizational culture. The case studies in this book show that the companies which have succeeded in low-income markets were ones that strengthened their bottom-up market intelligence—finding novel ways to integrate the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
sustainability issues do not significantly outperform firms with poor ratings on the same issues. These results are confirmed when we analyze future changes in accounting performance. The results have implications for asset managers who have committed to the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
of commuting in everyday life, little is known about why commuting is so aversive, who is most affected by the commuting experience, when people are particularly affected, and how people could better cope with lengthy commutes. View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112031-PDF-ENG Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B) Suraj Srinivasan and Amy KaserHarvard Business School Supplement 112-051 "Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B)" is a supplementary exercise to go with the "Mike Mayo...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
social exchange that resembles the innovation process. Our research suggests that, under particular conditions, novel ideas can be generated and ambiguous contexts navigated without great foresight. Instead, entrepreneurs can arrive at innovative ideas through the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are initially drawn from a known multivariate normal distribution. Mean-variance optimization is designed to produce the highest ratio of excess portfolio return to portfolio standard...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
to maintain just one product. Hospitals want to control the health care delivery system, and they've become oligopolists or monopolists in many markets, thus obviating price and quality competition, and they've become vertically View Details