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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
will often consider the giant risk but ignore the smaller risks that create friction in the supply chain," says M. Eric Johnson, director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business in Hanover,... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
Accomplishing that requires permanent, work-based learning programs that support educators’ degree-granting programs and employers’ hiring strategies. Closing the gaps and reducing the frictions between completing one’s education and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
defensive for years. Organizations have been delayering—eliminating middle management jobs—to try to be more agile, with faster decision making and execution. Downsizing in the name of economies of scale has hit middle management hard. Some regard middle managers as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
right approach.” In the new working paper The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Teixeira and HBS Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe propose that online stores take a page... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
quick, and (3) learn and adapt. Axiom #1: Make A Bump Plan Military strategist Carl von Clausewitz coined the term friction, "the force that makes the apparently easy so difficult." Friction doesn't just refer to adverse weather... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and unequal, there is little direct evidence on the magnitude and sources of these frictions. We conduct a field experiment with 752 employees at a multibillion-dollar corporation to address these questions. We provide evidence of significant View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
part of the joy of shopping at places like Marshalls or T.J.Maxx or the old Filene’s Basement is the idea of hunting for a bargain. That friction is designed to make you feel like you’ve conquered something, and we’re seeing companies... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
economies of scale are outweighed by frictions and inefficiencies that accompany bigness. This principle has served Nucor Steel well as it has risen to the premier place in US steel making. Similarly, Arkadi Kuhlmann, in putting together... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
developing more molecularly novel drug compounds, as opposed to more so-called "me-too" drugs. This pattern suggests that, on the margin, firms perceive novel drugs to be more valuable ex-ante investments but that financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
cope with the Arab Spring, with war in Syria and Yemen, as well as the threats from Iran and ISIS and continuing friction between Palestinians and Israelis. The key to these issues is Vision 2030—the plan his son, the Crown Prince, has... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of internal capital markets shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
relating to the agricultural assets, which create frictions such that market value and book value do not converge despite the application of fair value for the majority of the firm's assets. The case also highlights how fair value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
governance-related frictions and not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and reduced-form estimates reveal significant negative performance implications from suboptimal peer selection. Compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
the country had become a darling of the international aid community. As the country was preparing for the 2011 Party Congress, however, signs of growing economic frictions were becoming increasingly visible. The case closes by setting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55629 Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract— Copyright infringement may result from frictions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
to strategically delay providing the service. Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract— An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman