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- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. Inspection accuracy is critical to inspections being a useful input to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
discount in price in order to sell to an organization with a comparable journalistic reputation, the fear of a shareholder lawsuit limited the size of the discount, even in a company with a semi-public, family-controlled ownership. What,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
organizational structures such as codes are associated with improvements in supplier labor practices, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving incentive structures. We investigate under what internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
For companies to redeem credibility with investors, argue Harvard Business School professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu, "fundamental and even radical reforms must be made to the way America's markets process the flows of... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
some PowerPoint slides—a process that Bill Burnham, a former CSFB Internet analyst, calls 'the competitive devaluation of underwriting standards.' But nowhere did the wall between research and banking fall so completely as in Quattrone's... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
inventory, what capabilities each player brings to the table, and so forth. Raman: Our discussion of technology advancements, of course, must include the enhanced ability to process all of this data. Today's desktop PCs and even laptops... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
industries and poor selection of investments within industries. Venture capital organizations with more experience tend to outperform those with less experience. Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook Author:Sachin H. Jain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
taxonomy that assembles the field's knowledge about these decision-making bounds and organizes efforts toward deepening this knowledge and developing strategies for improvement. Specifically, we group five identified decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
empirical lacuna, we have developed a research program to measure the internal organization of firms—including their decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
the new technologies, the capitalist society as we know now may change. Instead of organized corporations, we may see more smaller, nimbler, and highly flexible organisations or households popping onto the scene ." Another line of... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Stereotype Content Model Authors:P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy, and S.T. Fiske Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
second quarter of 2023 alone, for example, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, took action on 13.6 million pieces of terrorism-related content and 1.1 million posts on organized hate. “Content moderation is simply not a good way to counter... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been able to intimate themselves into... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
bit of attention; 96 people submitted 410 programs, and 20 of the contestants had ideas that exceeded researchers’ expectations. The best solution increased the accuracy of the data from 91 percent to 97 percent and increased processing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
equal to multiples of their own budget through front-lines process innovation and support of staff on-the-floor. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607130 Broadband and Video Games: Playing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
taking care of ill patients and how we manage that act, how you design the processes that execute on that goal, and how you design the organizations that support those processes." I think Harvard and... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
groups are important to a marketing organization, which group is addressed most effectively by emerging techniques relying on neuroscience, particularly the exploration of the subconscious feelings that may or may not drive behavior? Will such techniques enable an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Common mistakes, the authors say, include failing to view disruption as a gradual process (which may lead incumbents to ignore significant threats) and blindly accepting the “Disrupt or be disrupted” mantra (which may lead incumbents to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
creative muse while sleeping. Task reactivation during sleep can actively trigger creativity-related processes during sleep and thereby boost the beneficial effect of sleep on creativity. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel