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Strategies for Cross-National Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the pressure of a global economic slowdown, it is critical for nations to work together to develop regional strategies that improve competitiveness across borders. Strategies that coordinate economic policy among neighboring countries... View Details

17 Mar 2021
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Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

need to spend more effort helping new consumers find the right products. On the other hand, these new customers might be less familiar with the return process and take more time to find the right View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

such an interconnected and uncertain world, entire production networks are at risk of disappearing." Case 1: Involve clients and business associations to View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration; Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration; and researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA... View Details

November 1978 (Revised June 1985)
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Hanson Industries (B)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

Provides a complete description of the processes used in preparing a budget (annual operating plan). Starting with basic product line decisions, management prepares a budget that integrates production and marketing within constraints of financial feasibility. The... View Details

Keywords: Production; Negotiation; Marketing; Financing and Loans; Budgets and Budgeting; Planning

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13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

In the past decade, physician burnout has evolved from a serious concern to a troubling epidemic, affecting 50 percent of physicians and physicians-in-training. Excessive workloads, process inefficiencies,... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

September 2015 (Revised March 2016)
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Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph Fuller and Michael Roberts

The case provides a vehicle for teaching about both corporate intrapreneurship and the use of lean startup methods. It tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry

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01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

find turnover increases for the most productive workers. We detect limited effort responses and find no evidence of different effects based on workers’ expectations of fairness or future promotion. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

with shale gas development can be incredibly disruptive locally, and fracking water usage clearly competes with local values and legacy uses. But shale gas View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, American companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

into the new system illustrated to Schock the importance of flexibility and of valuing every team member. Her response was to deepen her involvement in the process by listening to the team View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Brill

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Turning Waste into By-Product

By: Deishin Lee

This paper studies how a firm can create and capture value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced.... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Innovation and Invention; Cost Management; Opportunities; Market Participation; Framework; Profit; Competition; Wastes and Waste Processing; Product; Business Processes

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Every manufacturing process leaves waste, but Assistant Professor Deishin Lee believes much of this left-behind material can be put to productive—and profitable—use. Key concepts include:

The concept of "by-product synergy" consists... View Details

September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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pymetrics: International Expansion

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including... View Details

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Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

that we can take a set of figures and prove anything we want to. Donald Chipman, Supervisor, Western Electric, 1931 Illumination Study, 1926 Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies Collection Research on View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

(ii) designing incentive systems, broadly defined, that motivate both individual performance and organizational behavior. Students will learn to apply these concepts to enhance their own productivity while... View Details

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Innovation

Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Innovation is the process of attempts to develop and introduce new and improved ways of doing things—which is the process of innovation or “applied creativity”. This course focuses on covering different stages of the applied... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

accomplishments — both academic and extracurricular — of the Class of 2002, what you'll see is a triumph of spirit. This trying time for the country was aggravated by some dismaying developments in the... View Details

March 2014 (Revised January 2017)
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From Beijing Jeep to ASC Fine Wines: The Story of an American Family Business in China

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell

In 1985, Don St. Pierre Sr. became President of Beijing Jeep, the troubled joint venture between American Motor Corporation and the Chinese government to build Jeep Cherokees in China. Just over a decade later in 1996, leveraging contacts from his time in the... View Details