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20 May 2013
News

Use your money to buy happier time

23 Aug 2018
News

This is how successful CEOs spend their time

February 2010 (Revised January 2013)
Case

The Dabbawala System: On-Time Delivery, Every Time

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Mona Sinha

Describes the Mumbai-based Dabbawala organization, which achieves very high service performance (6 Sigma equivalent or better) with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Logistics; Alignment; Management Systems; Human Resources; Innovation and Invention; Mumbai

August 1976 (Revised October 1976)
Background Note

Cash Flow and the Time Value of Money

With the use of charts and examples, gives a detailed description of cash flows, the time value of money, and discounted cash flow analysis. View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Value

April 1993 (Revised June 1998)
Case

Time Inc.'s Entry into the Entertainment Industry (A)

Richard Munro, Time Inc.'s chairman and CEO, must respond to a hostile tender offer from Paramount Communications. Paramount conditioned its bid on cancellation of Time's plans to merge with Warner Communications. Several months before the hostile Paramount bid, Time... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Market Entry and Exit; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

November 2009
Article

Fast or Fair? A Study of Response Times

This paper uses a modified dictator game to investigate the relationship between response times and social preferences. We find that faster subjects more often chose the option with the highest payoff for themselves. Moreover, our within-analysis reveals that, for a... View Details

Keywords: Relationships; Time Management; Social Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Profit

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August 2020 (Revised October 2020)
Exercise

To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Student)

By: Ashley Whillans and Liz Goldenberg

Working professionals are often in the predicament of needing to make a choice between activities that will grant them more money or more time. Indeed, in large-scale representative panels of working adults, most respondents report feeling pressed for both time and... View Details

Keywords: Time; Time-as Money; Money; Time Management; Decision Making

May 2016 (Revised June 2017)
Case

India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Tarun Khanna, Namrata Arora and Tanya Bijlani

Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three million farmers in the state of Gujarat. It is India's largest food product marketing organization, selling 46 products, including... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Expansion; Dairy; India; Cooperatives; Milk; Leadership; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Competition; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India

15 Apr 2012
News

Me and my shadow use our time wisely

15 Mar 2009
News

Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?

24 Mar 2009
News

Oversaving, a Burden for Our Times

08 Mar 2017
News

A Steady Voice in Difficult Times

listening to the patients is the most important thing I do. “I will be a chaplain probably for the rest of my life—that’s what I think right now. It’s pretty amazing to be in a job that you feel like you’re supposed to be in. Being able to help people when they are... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations

emotions from the events that had occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1, 1921, when a white mob killed an estimated 300 Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses along 35 square blocks. Ratajczak spent more time than usual... View Details

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

the current economic downturn, companies need marketing skills more than ever. But while every corporate mission statement pays lip service to respecting customer needs, actual customer expertise is typically a mile wide and an inch deep. A good CEO knows how to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

1992
Chapter

Corporate Governance and Investment Time Horizons

By: J. W. Lorsch and E. MacIver

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Investment; Time Management

2010
Working Paper

Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

By: Alvin E. Roth

This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Market Timing; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Competitive Strategy