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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a larger-scale View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
chains, and evaluate opportunities inherent in typical restaurant business models as well as those created by disruptive changes affecting and shaping the industry. Michael and Andy will co-teach the course using written cases, as well as... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
one with a handful of technical people to a company that now has over 100 members in three locations worldwide. We’re working to revolutionize the weather-technology space by putting together a perspective that embraces data, models and... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
company to pull out of the exchanges. The largest health insurer in the US, UnitedHealth Group, never really embraced the exchanges in the first place and has also suspended the sale of many of its plans on the exchanges for 2017.... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
The more thoughtful of them provide a primer on applying the concept. Deborah Nixon's comment echoed several others when she said the idea has been around a long time in other forms, by other names. "The larger an organization becomes, the tougher one View Details
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
of posts on founder mindsets that improve success odds , Tom Eisenmann Managing for Results , Peter Drucker Novations: Strategies for Career Management , Gene Dalton & Paul Thompson The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team , Mark... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers, or input suppliers. These tradeoffs lead to a comprehensive discussion of the defining features of MSPs. The formal model we develop focuses on the MSP vs. vertical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
You want people to touch your product and actually get the brand experience. You could get to a point where stores like Best Buy become just showrooms and fulfillment is done by Amazon because they are much more efficient at it. I could envision a time when some of... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
an average of 20 to 30 minutes just to learn how to shop in most text-based Internet grocery-shopping systems. By contrast, it takes them only two to three minutes to learn how to shop in a 3-D virtual store modeled after a familiar... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
lowering risk. Sean Rosen Is Not for Sale by Jeff Baron (MBA 1978) (Greenwillow Books) Killing Limbaugh by Landon Carter (MBA 1967) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) The Awakened Relationship: Transforming Upsets and Blame... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of double-digit growth. Moreover, this View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
copyrighted content over peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing networks and its impact on the music industry and to assess the viable business models for the industry in the future. Competitiveness: Business Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
in a two-sided market. We compile a unique and comprehensive dataset using sales data from the U.S. daily deal market and specify a structural model based on Nash bargaining solutions. We find that Groupon,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
recommendations ." Gerald Nanninga posed an interesting question: "Today's workforce is evolving ever more closely to a 'contract employee' model . So, if you think of yourself as your boss and your supervisor as your client,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
until we make sure that the treatments and services consumers are getting are effective and affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn’t fix anything. What we need is a system of new value networks that will disrupt the old business View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
work that goes on inside of them.” That’s a profound piece of wisdom that guides how we think of our campus to this day. A great campus is an inviting campus. For instance, we could ask our Exec Ed students to live in hotels, as other... View Details
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
program for children, and VincuVentas, a tech-based talent agency for sales professionals. Bichara is quick to note the Social Enterprise Initiative’s backing over that summer and as he heads back to his native Mexico with a Social... View Details