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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
INRIX analytics offer similar benefits to corporate customers, Mistele adds, providing greater efficiencies to company fleet operations, commuting time estimates to realtors and home buyers, hourly traffic patterns to retailers and... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company to be more competitive because it is easier to source skilled people, access suppliers efficiently, and operate productively. In money management, for example, every road show comes to Boston because there is a cluster of major... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
they’d ask, ‘Who are you?’ I’d reply, ‘I’m your Schlumberger engineer.’ They’d say, ‘No, you’re not. Send a guy out.’” This was in 1994, and after explaining a replacement would not be coming, Kovatch would get to work. By the end of the job, seeing the quality and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Web
Departments | Employment
Services, and Curriculum Services) Business Operations Executive Office Information Management Services ( Analytics, Taxonomy, Search, Data Management) Information Products Team (Working Knowledge, eBaker, Baker Library|Bloomberg Center... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
achieved a 41% year-on-year growth. Yemeksepeti operated with an EBITDA margin of over 50%. Although the company had introduced other revenue streams over the years, commissions remained as the main source of income. Aydin believed that,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust facilitates reallocation between firms by allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
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Entrepreneurial Management Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top A Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits A Manager's Guide to Leveraging Technology Technology & Operations Management Michael Parzen Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Advanced... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
eventually a federation of many specialized companies. As they seldom committed to administrative centralization, their efficiency gain as a business organization remained marginal. The chapter first looks at the appearance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
dynamic consumer segmentation, which operates independent of the homogenization effect, and can in fact be stronger when the homogenization effect is weaker. We also find that bundles are treated as separate products (distinct from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
efficient for consumers and for GM. First, it would reduce the amount of time customers had to wait for their car to arrive. A car ordered online would take only 15 to 20 days to reach the customer compared to the usual 55 to 60. 79... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
analysis highlights the difference between operating core units designed for efficiency and market-facing units designed for responsiveness. We introduce key concepts that are essential to the effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-041 Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti The case describes the application of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
price. ©iStock.com/Rawpixel Ltd Examples of PWYW pricing abound in all industries: Radiohead's self-released its In Rainbows album with "name your price" downloads; the Dallas Theater Center holds "Pay-What-You-Can" nights to draw in new patrons;... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
would, therefore, help to increase economic efficiency simply by improving the flow of economic information. This view, in which government agencies could promote economic stability by providing forecasts, was a far cry from the type of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
effective in the sense that advertisers can reach great scale and do precision targeting. The challenge is to discern consumers' intent. "Search is unbelievably efficient because you look at a little query box. You can tell exactly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
between the multinational company, which adjusts its products and practices from country to country (at great cost), and the global corporation, which operates “as if the entire world (or major regions of it) were a single entity; it... View Details