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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
savings, particularly in a future in which Social Security will account for a smaller share of retirement income. How can their options best be preserved? Is the managed mutual fund worth saving? If so, what needs to be done? And how fast... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
weeks or days. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/03/manage-your-work-manage-your-life/ar/1 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Search Diversion and Platform Competition By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American glassware View Details
- June 1977 (Revised September 1992)
- Case
Sorenson Research Co. (Abridged)
Presents the issues facing a high volume, high margin (but lightweight) medical products business. The company is trying to improve its inventory control to reduce inventory investment and improve service. The present multi-site inventory system is described and major... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Investment; Volume; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Performance Improvement; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Sorenson Research Co. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 677-257, June 1977. (Revised September 1992.)
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
organizations. “It’s in that world that you get a glimpse of what is happening in the overall economy,” she says. “The Dun collection is remarkable in that sense because it references all of American society in the industrial age.” “The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed multi-billion-dollar stimulus... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- Web
Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library
early to mid-1940s, graduates of the program typically found employment in industry and government. Management Training Program students, 1940-1941. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
fund the launch of nearly all start-ups. The founders' current income, cash reserves, credit card capacity, and "mortgagable" assets account for most of the early stage capital in the United States.2 Other forms of non-cash... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
actually. And that includes profit. I think we can afford to remove a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere to get us to where the IPC wants us to get, even though we've got to create a giant new industry in the process. DM: There isn't much of... View Details
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS
classes became the first order of difficult business. Should I take classes along my career track? Oh wait, I don’t have one just yet. Should I continue my foray into accounting and finance classes? Practice makes perfect, I’m told, and I... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons I learned from HBS Peek
in Finance and Accounting with a Minor in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. When I applied to the program back in February, I did not realize how much HBS Peek would impact me. These are some of the life and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
featured a keynote address by HBS assistant professor Tomomichi Amano and a personal account by previous HBS Japan fellowship recipient Yasuhiro Sasago (MBA 2020). HBS assistant professor Tomomichi Amano Yasuhiro Sasago (MBA 2020) HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
sales, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), and other metrics. In particular, we find that IT-intensive industries account for most of this increase in turbulence,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
don’t think we know all the ripples yet. What I do know is that Robinhood customers are upending this industry. That makes a lot of people who are considered the old mainstays of the stock market very nervous. Robinhood is changing how the View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:Journal of East Asian Studies (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
their new industry along with the federal standards and workforce they’ll need. Last fall, she began brainstorming with green entrepreneur Donnel Baird, CEO of BlocPower, when both attended events promoting the Biden infrastructure bill,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
problem in the health care industry comes partly from a clash of interests. Doctors are passionate about addressing the individual needs of each patient, while regulators and policy makers are intent on having one piece of legislation... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
encouraged even relative strangers to hold each other accountable for progress. Thus the team scaffolds enabled the construction of group coordination processes among fluid groups. Quantitative analysis showed that performance improved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne