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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
system to be unfair. Today any player with four complete seasons (or more) and an expired contract is considered to be an unrestricted free agent. The 2020 free agency is notable for the veritable glut of quarterbacks that became free...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with...
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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
proxy for incentive conflict) impact the use of a subset of available performance measures. Consistent with a signaling model of the allocation of contingent control rights, we find that contracts involve fewer contingent control rights...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
decisions are endogenous, and 3) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing) once they have decided to affiliate. We show that search diversion remains a necessary strategic instrument for the intermediary even when the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to...
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- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
products to Asia, who would have guessed that this decision would influence where the most important component for tomorrow's electric vehicles—the batteries—would be produced? But that is what happened. The offshoring of consumer electronics production (often View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions. Using a unique dataset of Chinese and Indian herbal patents filed in the United States, we find that an increase in the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
practice, and at a personal level, the impact she has had on each of our lives. Innovative ideas and novel methods have been the hallmarks of Linda's research on diverse topics: the impact of self‐serving conceptions of fairness on negotiations, the labor View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Author:Noel Watson Abstract In this paper we propose a perceptions framework for categorizing a range of inventory decision making that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. We take the existence of a wide range of inventory...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
informing their teaching in all the School's educational programs, their knowledge educates the next generation of leaders and influences the practice of management on a global scale. As I write, the world continues to face uncertainty. Container ships bottleneck the...
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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a strong learning effect whereby...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Tanzania are more expensive than comparable hotels, and that this difference in price cannot be accounted for by differences in supply constraints. Further, using cross-country panel data, I show that upscale hotel prices account for a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
trading." Fighting is another (perhaps too) familiar negotiation improvisation. In these negotiations, the goal is to beat up on the other party, even if it means that you get hurt, too. Parties in labor contract negotiations...
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by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Business School Case 813-045 Eric Weston is struggling to keep his garden supply business alive. Revenues are up slightly from last year, but profits are down in a poor economy as he attempts to integrate an expensive recent acquisition....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
deliver manpower and supplies overseas, Kaiser, who had never built a ship before, rose to the challenge and successfully directed the construction of thousands of Liberty ships. These merchant vessels gave the U.S. Navy the overwhelming...
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Martha Lagace