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- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
least three plans, one based on "best case," one based on "worst case," and one representing "best guess." One could argue that the process itself has a degree of humility built into it. Fashion retailers speed up the replenishment process...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
challenges them to accept responsibility for their own education and gives them first-hand appreciation of the application of knowledge and skills to practice." Nevertheless, Kathryn Aiken points out that "... studying other crucibles is no View Details
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by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
provides material for students to stage skits in front of the class to illustrate how and why the cheating occurred.) Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/atlanta-schools-measures-to-improve-performance/an/114001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-542...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the 19th century, weapons manufacture, like most industries, had been the exclusive domain of skilled craftsmen, whose families had typically been in the trade for generations. Colt View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements or View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
physicians whether an available alternative drug was more or less costly than the advertised drug, primarily because physicians are not always aware of drug prices. Economic research is needed on the comparative transaction prices of View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Peer influences appear to be substitutes for direct experience: the effects are strongest for those without exposure to entrepreneurship in their family of origin, and for those who have engaged in little inter-firm mobility themselves....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
Stanford’s business school now aims to “develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world,” and MIT’s Sloan School of Manage-ment, “to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world.” A crucial question raised by business...
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- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
predicting digital innovation. While venture capital funding appears to play a role in supporting innovative entrants, closer analysis suggests that this funding selects on other variables that predict digital innovation; in this regulated industry, financial resources...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
some may have hoped. "The birth of every new technology leads to some kind of hype, and when the hype settles it will be clear that crowdfunding is here to say," concludes Nanda. "But I don't think it will substitute for...
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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
substitute teachers to school districts nationwide. The company finds itself at the center of ongoing debates about the nature of work—from hybrid staffing to automation, the skills gap, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As more...
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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
notices only go out once a day. They are not a substitute for regularly checking your space usage. If you are working in an especially large project space you may receive an email at the 99% or 100% full mark, but still have significant...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the Office of the Quartermaster General, Doriot led a revolution in the military by applying science to the art of war. Under his command, the U.S. Army found substitutes for critical raw materials, and developed dozens of innovative...
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- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
offered as the high-speed substitute for mail service in the world of tomorrow. Watson was sixty-five years old when the fair opened, an age when many businessmen think about retirement. But Watson had the energy of a man in his thirties,...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
the United States. Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that facilitate entrepreneurship and growth are often weak, archaic, or entirely missing." By providing substitutes for these...
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by Peter Jacobs
- Web
Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
speakers complement this effort by presenting frameworks, analytical techniques, practical insights, and pertinent real-world examples. Grading Grading is based on class participation (50%) and a take home exam (50%). Interested students can request to View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
find that customer adoption of online banking is associated with (1) substitution primarily from incrementally more costly self-service delivery channels (ATM and voice response unit); (2) augmentation of service consumption in more...
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Martha Lagace