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- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
policy implications of these findings. The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open source, and users extensively mix... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
neutral. 'Fair Marriages': An Impossibility Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Publication:Economics Letters (forthcoming) Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible, i.e., fair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
employees were passing by the clinic location on a typical day. Each employee was assigned an anonymous ID code, which allowed Beshears to match the data with whether that individual got a flu shot without identifying workers by name. The... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
should prepare as we do in the classroom, learning about the fateful decisions ahead and where each choice is likely to take them. Q: What do you hope readers will take away from the book? A: Awareness of the road ahead, matched by an... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
that can be mixed and matched in many combinations, depending on customers' needs. For example, General Motors designs and produces several transmissions, engines, and chassis that can be used to produce nearly its entire line of autos of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
in defined-contribution pension plans, such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
on consumers, platform managers, and policymakers. Martha Lagace: What piqued your interest in this research? Chiara Farronato: I study market design choices of online platforms from eBay to Airbnb. Online platforms help match many... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
model’s correct and incorrect classifications, the cutoff point on the curve that matches true positives and true negatives, and the payoff matrix Wehunt and Morse construct. Students can then follow the link directly from their model to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
feelings about the news; under Francona's reign the team, which had not claimed a championship since 1918, had won the World Series twice in three years. For Groysberg's part, he believes that Francona's management style--collegially, from the bottom up--simply didn't... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
the workers—something that can be taken away if things get rough. It's part of what's making the company profitable. Too often, retail managers keep their employees dangling and switch their schedules around on short notice because they feel they have to be free to... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
time to maintain high standards and efficiency. Leaders of firms from start-ups to tech giants should give themselves the room they need to manage employee performance while shifting headcount to match strategic priorities when the need... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy
By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
Khanna, Tarun, Raffaella Sadun, and Susie L. Ma. "Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy." Harvard Business School Case 720-356, September 2019. (Revised August 2020.)
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
matching estimations, and regression discontinuity designs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50067 Harvard Business School Case 315-049 Cravia: An Entrepreneurial Endeavor in Dubai Walid Hajj (HBS '95), CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
attracting top talent,” says Cheng. “I don’t want to discount the day-to-day concerns board members deal with, but they don’t seem to match up with the critical issues we see covered in the popular press.” The researchers wrote up their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
leading and making decisions. In the book Mukunda offers specific ways to avoid making a poor candidate choice: Avoid deceptive signals. Someone who has ridden family wealth to high office, for example, may have accomplished less than meets the eye. View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each question and answer,... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract We investigate the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Using a matched sample of 180 companies, we find that corporations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new products or holiday packages that match their... View Details