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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
strategy. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Publication:Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a scalable, data-driven method for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
business school in the 1970s, Segel spent part of his studies in Florence. “It had an enormous impact on my life,” he says now. Segel fell in love with architecture and design there, a passion which led him into the real estate business... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
support value-based care is essential. A value-enabling IT platform must organize data around conditions. February 2020 2020 TDABC Starter Kit by Professor Robert Kaplan and Dr. Syed Shehab This article is designed for new partners to... View Details
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Courses - Private Capital Project
models such as venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts. Participants will study investment criteria, management strategies, and decision-making processes essential in the field. Private Equity and Venture Capital The Investment Management course is View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Enterprise Track, 2021 Shelly Xu Design (SXD) Shelly Xu, HBS 2021 Ahmed Fardin Junga Park, HBS 2021 Social Enterprise Track & Crowd Favorite Winner Vocal Justice Shawon Jackson, HKS Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Alumni Track, 2021... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
negative. It remains so once we add an extensive set of further industry- and firm-level controls. Rising import exposure also reduces global employment, global sales, and global R&D expenditure at the firm level. It would appear that a simple View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Figure 1. Senior management is the organizing mechanism and voice of the employees. The family council and family assembly are the organizing mechanisms and voice of the family. The board of directors is the... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
labor-intensive manufacturing process and the high prices of Zotter chocolates limit the scalability of the company, even though the founder desires to grow. While the founder has many ideas for the firm, it is not clear which path would be View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
illegally dumping trash outside of officially sanctioned collection areas are steep—violators can be fined $4,000 and have their vehicles impounded—but until Tisch came along, there was no enforcement mechanism and therefore little... View Details
- June 2008
- Article
The Multiunit Enterprise
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque
A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives
Garvin, David A., and Lynne C. Levesque. "The Multiunit Enterprise." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 6 (June 2008).
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
a result, gave Foody optimism about the commercial prospects of the technology. Foody believed the technology had the carbon savings, cost effectiveness, and scalability needed to decarbonize several hard to abate sectors. Nevertheless,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007
at least 3 decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along 4 basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy, and (4) board governance. We argue that civil society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s understanding of those levels, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
narrow, optimized supply chains," Shih says. "They put all of their eggs with one supplier that had the best product at the lowest price." Suppliers Squeezed, Too At the same time the suppliers, also under pressure to... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture
By: Ranjay Gulati
Customer centricity has been an important part of the culture at Cisco Systems since its inception. While part of this is attributable to values put in place by the founders and retained by subsequent management, it is also closely interwoven with its organizational... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employees; Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Business Units
Gulati, Ranjay. "Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture." Harvard Business School Case 409-061, January 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
by about 17 percent, Greenstein explains. “There are lots of suppliers behind the scenes inventing new ways of designing their components and redesigning and restructuring the supply chain,” says Greenstein. “In our paper, we brought out... View Details
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
systems for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool,... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving education to employment outcomes, View Details