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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
with these historical accounts. This paper, by examining the resource allocation process closely, identifies a specific set of circumstances in which intervention by top management is critical to a firm's...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with implications for the theory and practice...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
the bias on a per word basis hardly differs between the sources. These results have implications for the segregation of readers in online sources and the allocation of editorial resources in online sources...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Two well-documented problems can derail government programs to boost new venture activity. First, they can simply get it wrong: allocating funds and support in an inept or, even worse, counterproductive manner. Decisions that seem...
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- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Palvia, and Albert L. Harris, 207-224. Marietta, Ga.: Ivy League Publishing, Limited, 2007 Abstract In the early 21st century, IT has become more important than ever. Technology evolution, the creation of new channels to global resource...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
are more effective for partisans, candidate advertising is more effective for non-partisans, whereas outside advertising is more effective for partisan voters. Our findings can help strategists efficiently allocate View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
crisis strikes, what will become of it in the longer term? By the same token, allocating resources to long-term exploration might incur the risk of precipitating the fall. Egalitarianism and International...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
launched major changes in its R&D organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
determining the expected return of, and hence the optimal allocation to, less persistent, more turnover-intensive characteristics. The mean-variance optimal tilts toward value, size, and profitability are roughly equal to each other and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch by both the industry and Clearwater. In recent years,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
and the established literatures on resource allocation and incumbent spin-outs. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51520 Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Community Solutions
By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn
Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending...
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Change;
Change Management;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Communication;
Communication Strategy;
Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Capital Budgeting;
Capital Markets;
Country;
Government Administration;
Government Legislation;
Housing;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Knowledge Sharing;
Leading Change;
Resource Allocation;
Mission and Purpose;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Opportunities;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Human Needs;
Public Opinion;
Social Issues;
Societal Protocols;
Poverty;
Welfare;
Well-being;
System;
Equality and Inequality;
Consulting Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
United States;
New York (city, NY);
Florida;
Texas
Trelstad, Brian, and Tom Quinn. "Community Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 322-021, September 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the allocation increased by more than 10 percentage points over the last decade. Alternative vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger and North America–based buyout...
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Dina Gerdeman
- May 2018
- Case
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords:
Data Analytics;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Investment Return;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation Leadership;
Intellectual Property;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Resource Allocation;
Goals and Objectives;
Marketing Communications;
Performance;
Programs;
Projects;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Networks;
Partners and Partnerships;
Research and Development;
Genetics;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company had a plan to share carbon...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Southeastern Pennsylvania University Hospital. He must balance his time taking care of patients, running a practice, managing up, down, and laterally, managing stars with little formal authority, allocating View Details
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Martha Lagace