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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Inc.—Engineered Products Division Harvard Business School Case 709-434 Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, deliver customer benefits that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard productivity analysis, specifically omission and attribution issues, and, if so, whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
here as enterprise information technologies. Because complete contracts over IT assets are not possible, relationship specificity is an important consideration; scholarship on the theory of the firm yields a consistent prescription that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
from World War II Internment Firm Trade By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict, on average, which trade links are valuable for firms. Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
team to deliver a highly customized solution that absolutely requires Julia's expertise. This case presents an opportunity for students to analyze two prevailing aspects of organizational life: working in teams and working under pressure.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new initiatives in B2C... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
people witness the luxury, they might want to upgrade, benefiting the cruise line,” he adds. “But it might also lead lower-fare customers to be more disgruntled and unhappy with their current experience. For an airline or cruise line,... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
Establish Transparent Paths to Success Another strategy Fitzpatrick recommends for employers is to be transparent around the skills employees need to progress. During her time managing teams at a leading multinational manufacturing corporation, Fitzpatrick recalled... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
around the world adapt and lead. Climate jobs have never more robust or exciting. From transportation to tech to agriculture, regardless of your experience, I’d encourage all MBAs to make climate a part of your next role." Nathan Nemon (MBA 2020), View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School has ever undertaken." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
around the world adapt and lead. Climate jobs have never more robust or exciting. From transportation to tech to agriculture, regardless of your experience, I’d encourage all MBAs to make climate a part of your next role." Nathan Nemon (MBA 2020), View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
Establish Transparent Paths to Success Another strategy Fitzpatrick recommends for employers is to be transparent around the skills employees need to progress. During her time managing teams at a leading multinational manufacturing corporation, Fitzpatrick recalled... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
eligible electorate. To win the general, assuming a 60 percent voter turnout, he'll need around five times as many customers to close the deal. Conventional political wisdom argues that Trump has to soften his tone, drop the ad hominem... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
terrorist is moot.” Several addressed the more specific issue of Apple’s dispute with the FBI. The question of what a government can demand in a democracy roughly split respondents down the middle. Taking Apple’s side, ZBV said: “The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
Wine Director, and a passionate Chief Beer Guy. Two and a half years in, Reveler Beverage is thriving and gaining loyal customers through their selection of interesting and top quality products, beer and wine tastings, and wine club. As... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
effect. In general, as the delay between order completion and delivery increases, we find that the same customers spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
strategy, creating high levels of customer satisfaction, or motivating people to navigate complex matrix organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-051.pdf Substitution Patterns of the Random Coefficients Logit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/Vietnam_Competitiveness_Report_2010_Eng.pdf Working PapersInside the Learning Curve: Customer-, Domain-, and Technology-Specific Learning in Outsourced Radiological Services Authors:Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R.... View Details