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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
material on how a variety of organizations are cascading their enterprise strategy map and scorecard out to align dispersed business units, support groups, and individuals. Dave Norton and I already have the table of contents for this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
are the first to learn of changing customer needs, first to see competitors' marketing strategies in action, and first to encounter new regulatory initiatives. Top management increasingly relies on the ability of its geographically and organizationally View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
planned and managed in a much more efficient and sustainable fashion than in a dispersed population. Mayors of the world's largest cities agree, with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg leading a global coalition to craft urban centers... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
as it is being employed to unite dispersed functional or geographic groups within a firm. While automatic process execution continues to be valuable for these networks, the greater goal of integration often appears to be better and faster... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of trusted appointees (known internally as the "Dutch Mafia"), whose understanding of Philips technology, commercial objectives, and overall strategy provided the major link between the parent company and its dispersed national... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
equivalent arrival and service rates, total service capacity can be increased. Who Should Select New Employees in Geographically Dispersed Organizations: Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
employment slowly recovered to pre-recession levels. Now, despite an initial round of federal aid dispersed to cities and states in March, and a considerable bounce-back of consumer spending following the reopening of local economies,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poured resources into hundreds of schemes to end poverty. The World Bank alone has dispersed about $550 billion since its founding in the 1940s, Chu said. Adding in contributions from the "alphabet soup" of other organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
disperse their activities to capture the opportunities and cost advantages of doing business around the world. Yet sourcing the low-cost inputs and building assembly plants in low-wage nations do not make a global strategy. Instead,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 6 (June 2008) Abstract A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
activities. Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Periodical:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many companies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
development projects in an Indian software services firm, we find that knowledge repository use has a positive effect on project efficiency but not on project quality. However, when we examine two moderators, geographic dispersion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
own pitfalls, since it leaves companies little recourse in the event that someone else steals their idea. But there are things they can do to protect their idea while still keeping it secret, says Ahuja—for example, dispersing research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
as more effectively manage its geographically dispersed distribution center inventories. It knows as much about me as I know about myself. Up to now, it has been able to satisfy customer needs for rapid response. But during the pandemic,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
the intensive margin vary substantially across technologies; (3) the cross-country dispersion of adoption lags has declined over time while the cross-country dispersion in the intensive margin has not; and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows, managers must decide how to scale the Vision Community process so that it retains its spirit of employee involvement and engagement while encompassing a larger, more geographically View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
this may save travel time and costs, it might be preventing inspectors from doing their jobs more effectively. One possible remedy: Managers could impose a cap on the maximum number of inspections per day, and rearrange schedules to View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
problem at the World Bank? A: It is not a new idea that politics drive the allocation of aid decisions. But the view of politics that we normally have is that donors like the United States, Japan, or France may reward their friends rather than simply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
structural characteristics (team geographic dispersion and task change) that intensify the challenge of knowledge integration. Drawing on information processing theory, we distinguish between a team's knowledge repository use and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne