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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/product/european-integration-meeting-the-competitiveness-challenge/an/714405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-023 Wal-Mart Lobbying in India? In 2012, as part of a routine disclosure under U.S. law, Wal-Mart...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209105 Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms Harvard Business School Case 209-104 Most companies around the world are family controlled and/or closely held. The need to value...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
monitoring, and care for routine health issues. On-site physical therapists offer coaching to prevent injury and services to speed recovery. On-site diabetes educators work with groups of employees to engage them in lifestyle changes that...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
influential
, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves disrupted by existing work...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
needed for patient care. We found that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments' routines was a major source of operational failures. The low levels of interconnectedness occurred because of how the internal supply...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
dynamic occurs because an organization's problem-solving routines and normal patterns of communication tend to constrain the space of designs within which it searches for new solutions. Such a link, if confirmed empirically, would be...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
collaboration by making information available when and where it's needed. They routinely capture data on processes to discover how work really happens. Finally, they study these data in an effort to find ways to improve execution. Taken...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
ingrained. She hypothesized that if she could get households expecting a new baby to make PriceMart a part of their routines before becoming parents, she might keep them as customers for the next several years, winning significant...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
collaborative, absorptive, adaptive, and learning capabilities. The ability of sport organizations to share and absorb knowledge from their partners and to integrate this knowledge into their planning and management processes was critical. The study shows how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
he respects have said that in Russia it is almost impossible not to pay bribes to get things done. Why? Because local and federal laws conflict as if by design, which leads to gaps that some officials believe they can exploit. But, across the globe, Ramanna says,...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
2009 Abstract This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large-scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for disaster situations, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Yet a vigorous tradition in the accounting literature establishes that firms routinely sacrifice long-term investment to manage earnings and are rewarded for doing so. This paper presents a model that reconciles these apparently...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
of the rebel with the breadwinner's willingness to contribute to societal institutions. The man-of-action is a utopian figure because he resolves the identity dilemmas that American men routinely face in their everyday lives. To make a...
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by Manda Salls
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly routine mechanism for building trust. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2377353 When to Sell...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
Consumers are more likely to consume when a price is vivid and fresh than when it is obscured or distant.— John Gourville In other research, I have investigated how the unbundling of price into routine payments affects the decision to...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into harness with business people and...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
routine part of most people's lives, there is no doubt that technology—especially Internet technology—is having a huge impact on the financial services industry. With much hype and headlines, Web trading has revolutionized the securities...
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by Susan Young
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and routine sequences possible. This abridged version of the note does not reference the case "OXXO's Turf War Against Extra." It is intended to be used in a classroom setting where "OXXO's Turf War Against Extra" is also being taught,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the...
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Martha Lagace