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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
of performance feedback in motivating productivity in repetitive tasks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-078.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic and financial bidders. The sale process described is that of a private auction, including a confidential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
is expressed in myriad ways, from the success of the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the proliferation of laws extending human rights in every domain. The new individuals have plenty of things. They have access to plenty of services. But they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
specific customer or market need. They might sell and maintain the product or share that role with others in an industry or with those outside traditional industry boundaries. Distributors enable buyers and sellers to connect, communicate, and View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
to receive favorable loan terms. First, bank relationships formed through repeated transactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry between the lender and the leveraged buyout firm. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm such as Cisco Systems has used... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
becomes confused about its purpose and whom it is designed to serve. In popular marketing textbooks, students are taught that a customer is any person or organizational unit that plays a role in the consummation of a transaction with the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
part of an effort to market the company as a caring, responsible institution and even to market the nonprofit as a credible organization meriting support. Transactional Stage. Significant numbers of firms and nonprofits are migrating into... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
which often assumes that decision makers are rational and understand the implications of their choices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 214-018 HgCapital... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
buyers and sellers. Often, they're people who would not have met if not for the Internet. The advantages of this are you can reduce transaction costs if you're buying and selling, particularly if you're buying." This is where the... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness constraints from a broad class of allowable constraints. The method then designs a point View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had... View Details
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
terrorism tends to rally folks to patriotism, corruption does just the opposite, and that damage is severe and incalculable...a meltdown of confidence in our system is potentially far more devastating." (Mark Montgomery); "The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
recorded information including the asking price of the rental, the characteristics of the apartment or room, and the average rating each host had received. (The site's structured rating system lets guests rate the hosts and properties on... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
to today's Network Era characterized by the Internet. From roughly 1970 to 1980, DIS concentrated on the management of mainframes and the chief individual responsible for information technology, the Information Systems (IS) manager. At... View Details
Keywords: by Staff