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- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Political Economy Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility By: Galichon, Alfred, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber Abstract—We introduce an empirical framework for models of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
tracking global market trends and finding investment opportunities — such as gold, interest rates, currency, and commodities — that match those trends. Balance Is a Crock, Sleep Is for the Weak: An...
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- January 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region
By: Robert L. Simons
Recounts the financial difficulties and management changes experienced by American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region (NER) during the 1980s. After summarizing industry-wide changes in the collection, testing, and distribution of blood and blood products, the...
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Change Management;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Financial Management;
Restructuring;
Health;
SWOT Analysis;
Social Enterprise;
Marketplace Matching;
Management Style;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Health Industry;
North and Central America
Simons, Robert L. "American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region." Harvard Business School Case 190-078, January 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era that Adam Smith penned his...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you are a tailor and you’re switching from sewing by hand to using a sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
The rise of the "second screen"—watching TV while also surfing on smartphones or tablets—would seem to be bad for advertisers, stealing precious eyeballs from their pitches. Not so, says Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor in the View Details
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Arts, Entertainment
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
companies like Amazon have been contemplating. For years, logistics have been managed by principles such as that of "postponement and speculation." The idea is that to approach the best match between supply and demand at a...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy transactions. We discuss elements of market design that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
do well to consider it as an opportunity instead. An employee who is ready to move on is no longer the best match and there’s no point standing in the way of their dreams. Instead, focus on what you can do to turn your company into a...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- Profile
Patrick Chun
a social-enterprise business that marketed handmade luxury goods sourced directly from artisans in developing countries. Consumers would get unique accessories, and the craftsmen would get a higher share of the profits via our direct...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
which matches consumer demand with sellers' excess inventory -- one of the Internet's big winners. The inspiration of former marketing consultant Jay Walker, Priceline opened for business a little over two...
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James E. Aisner
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
The next step involved creating a match sample. "The first thing we did was try to find for each public firm in the United States a private firm that was of similar size and in the same industry," Farre-Mensa says. Although this...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
unintentionally undermined the intended admissions policy—led to the elimination of Boston’s walk zones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52937 May 2017 American Economic Review Stable and Strategy-Proof View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
challenge will be the extremely concentrated demand, as more than 3 million visitors travel to Cup matches spread over a country that is the world's fifth largest by geographical area. "The dimension of Brazil poses a bigger challenge...
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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Internet and of the international scope of Intel Capital's reach, currently encompassing more than 175 companies outside the United States. With stock markets floundering and many venture capitalists sitting on the sidelines, Intel's...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided funding for a charter run by View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the economy." Innovation has driven the country's strength in world...
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by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
would come out strong, in fact ties from non–Ivy League schools were just as powerful, the researchers learned. They detail the results and implications in an HBS working paper, "Sell Side School Ties" [PDF]. "Our findings suggest that agents in...
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- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has...
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