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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The case explains the four main new tools for monetary policy (or quantitative easing) the Federal Reserve has...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage clusters as a tool in economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
firmsare more likely to adopt processinnovations and why. The empirical context is the adoption of e-business practices among U.S. manufacturing plants in early 2000. Based on detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search will only present more...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to be done, moves towards more strategic and creative work and a lot of the core functions of providing and manufacturing tend to get concentrated in a handful of companies and geographies. I think the companies we work with in the United...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This article then identifies more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to, and marketing of, an individually held commitment...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
services. Poindexter: The constraints that we've had have inspired creative solutions, and those creative solutions have been access to better profitability, better tools for serving our customers who are incredibly poor, and so we need...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
community college sees as their mission. But now, with the ability to actually scale online courses and configure them in the way that the local employer—whether that’s a manufacturing employer or whether it’s a healthcare...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
650,000 employers. From the start, the venture has forged close ties with colleges and universities—more than 1,400 at last count. In place of on-campus career fairs and recruiting visits, Handshake provides an integrated set of tools to...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
manufacture LSD. You can’t get traction. Just don’t go there. (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) Sahlman was daunted, but he...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
manufacturing supply facilities in Southeast Asia live during the pandemic remotely in a 30-day period. Kerr: Juergen, I’m curious. You mentioned earlier the compensation side of the business.Lindner: Yes.Kerr: As you move toward SaaS...
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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Course MaterialsAdobe Systems: Working Towards a 'Suite' Release (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-014 The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and tension as Adobe prepares to...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
coming to visit you and say, “I’m thinking about setting up an apprenticeship program”—maybe not in healthcare, maybe I’m a manufacturer or financial institution, what are the three or four things you would tell me that have allowed you...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that took advantage of some existing competencies that we had, but also online recruiting, online screening, which were tools and techniques that they had never used before, nor had we. Fuller: It’ll be interesting to see what types of...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
gender for a man, or education for a college graduate. This part of our identity may bring blind spots, but it is the best tool for influencing change. She introduces the psychological reasons that make it hard for us to see the bias in...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
would do more for mobility for this country per dollar of investment than anything else. Lowell McAdam, Chairman and CEO, Verizon Communications: [Watch Video] Watch Video For the past 30 years, we've been putting the tools in the...
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professional resources or fees to search firms, they emphasize minimizing the number of candidates that are considered and minimizing the time taken to fill a position. That logic gets embedded in their applicant-tracking system—their online View Details