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- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
experiences. Coming from a business development background, I had never thought about working on the operational side of a business. But my Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Class – taught by the...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
growing faster than expenses for the second consecutive year. The resulting growth in cash from operations enabled HBS to continue to make strategic investments in priority areas while still ending the year with a healthy unrestricted...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
development projects in an Indian software services firm, we find that knowledge repository use has a positive effect on project efficiency but not on project quality. However, when we examine two moderators, geographic dispersion and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC)...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Times. The AHLA also launched a campaign to portray Airbnb hosts as being, in reality, commercial operators looking to compete illegally with hotels. As margin pressure increases from Airbnb properties over time, hotels will be forced to...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of industrial clusters; we confirm these predictions using variations across patent technology clusters. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
Financials Supplemental Financial Information 1ms page 2 of 2 Expenses The School’s total operating expenses for fiscal 2018 were $766 million, up by $35 million, or nearly 5 percent, from $731 million for fiscal 2017. The increase was...
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- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
tracking configuration changes will pay off over the long run. As many companies discovered with quality management and industrial safety programs, perceptions of tradeoffs between security and productivity are often incorrect. Security concerns can drive View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
difficulty responding to its plan to position itself as the only company whose technology supported the entire installed base of operating systems, including those for the Macintosh and old versions of Windows and Unix. The momentous...
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by Daniel Penrice
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
interesting to note how culturally sensitive Zalando has to be as a company due to operating so closely to the customer in so many different countries. It often feels like Europe can be treated as one country, but for a digital disruptor...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better sleep, and there’s cost savings...
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Dan Morrell
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
see whichever physician is on duty. The best family doctors often aren’t accepting new patients. Health care is a local business, travel is global. Hotel consumers have vast numbers of options and no hotel is permanently closed to new customers; the View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
drew attention to the resource allocation process (RAP) with his seminal study of four organizations in 1970. He concluded that a bottom-up process of idea generation begun by operational managers and shaped by middle management works...
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by James Heskett
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
Market for Time: Fairness and Efficiency in Waiting Lines." In the following e-mail Q&A, Oberholzer-Gee discusses the research and what it might mean for companies who might want to, in fact, create a market for time. Sean...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Executive Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. "A leader's guide for the next decade. Porter and Teisberg's book provides a new strategic perspective that will enable dramatic improvement in the quality and efficiency of patient...
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
W. Feeley, Mary L. Witkowski, and Heidi W. Albright This paper provides further details on our work to help MD Anderson’s Center for Cancer Care Innovation identify and act on several process improvement opportunities. The report illustrates the power of TDABC to drive...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
arena, for example, Forest Reinhardt has found that when companies see environmental regulation as an opportunity to look critically at their production processes — not just to figure out the minimum they can do to comply — they can make their View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Mercadal “We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the United States electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups dominates despite modest View Details