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20 Aug 2013
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problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

2011
Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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19 Feb 2014
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Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

the University of California, San Diego. The researchers used computer software to analyze the tone of each columnist's writing, determining whether they wrote with a generally bearish or generally bullish perspective. "Some authors... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

We did so by presenting them with different parameters of the task, having them compare and contrast these different parameters, giving them full feedback on their history of choices and resulting outcomes, and allowing them to interact with a human opponent instead of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

an established cost accounting method, time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), to assess the costs of performing an abdomen and pelvis computed tomography (AP CT) in an academic radiology department. We then identified opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

near record high. A 2010 strategy committed the company to a transition to cloud computing. The main driver behind this transition was the development of SAP HANA, an in-memory computing technology that combined database, data processing,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

coverage, care delivery, and spending. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/712466-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-056 ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet Days after Jerry Shen introduced a new tablet computer at the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

argue that the evolving global network structure affects firms' propensity to form bridging ties by shaping the structural opportunities for bridging. We test our theory using the network of partnership ties among firms in the global View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

modular, closed architecture. Over time, the more open firm can drive the ROIC of competitors below their cost of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

reducing inventory costs (defined here as the sum of stockout losses and cost of capital associated with holding inventory). The heuristic increased estimated agent profits by 15% relative to profits realized through agents actual decisions, while also offering... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

to improving important parts of the world food supply. But his biggest challenge was in scaling up his organization to address the multitude of opportunities he wanted to address. Along with its massive investments in gene sequencing machines and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

Ventures, Kleiner-Perkins, and others. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806198 DVD War Harvard Business School Case 706-504 In 2006, the DVD was the most popular storage medium in the entertainment and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense, these are good times for... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

prior art that invalidates the patent being examined, and productivity in the machine learning process technology requires computer science and engineering (CS&E) skills. We discuss implications for artificial intelligence and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

to which citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs. Across two studies using laboratory and field data, increasing operational transparency improved citizens’ views of and increased engagement with government. In Study 1 (N=554), viewing a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored in the View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Business School Case 607-150 Describes the history of clinical computing at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and the development, since the 1996 merger to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

on two of the most important historical episodes in the history of the computing industry, the introduction of the PC and of the browser, to develop a third hypothesis. Both IBM and Microsoft, having been extremely successful in an old... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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