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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
powerful, but in a centralized, technocratic system, will be very powerful, because somebody has to do the research that informs all of this. The final group is the human resource people in corporations. They turn to limiting the choice... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
clubs," we show that 1) fees serve as a signal of price discounts, such that stores that charge fees are perceived as offering better deals for identical items; 2) the presence of fees can increase consumer spending and overall store... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
technical and management team members. Now running desperately low on cash, Perlman had to contend with many potential deal partners, including VCs, angels, and industrial partners (as potential sources of cash); consumer electronics... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Herman B., and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Mega-Crises: Understanding the Prospects, Nature, Characteristics and the Effects of Cataclysmic Events Abstract Emergency response organizations, as we have argued in earlier writing, must deal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
new course in our required curriculum next year. This course will draw on a great deal of work at the School and focus on three issues: Individual decision making (how you as a leader confronting ethical dilemmas or difficult View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
co-written by professor Dilip Soman of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, demonstrates that sometimes offering too many choices prompts the confused consumer to defer a purchase or run to the arms of a competitor... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
teaches the other two. They divide the course into four parts, the first three of which address timeless entrepreneurial dilemmas: deciding when to found a company, building the founding team, and dealing with investors. The last leg of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—Existing evidence on the impact of door-to-door canvassing comes from small-scale experiments that assign treatment at the individual level (at which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
government's support on Newbridge's investment and had to back out of the deal with Newbridge. Weijian Shan has to make a choice between two alternatives: 1) Give up pursuing the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
both. The choice is a false dichotomy. Implementing this dual approach involves three key tasks. Each has directive and enabling components. The first task is envisioning, which requires instilling both realism and hope. The second task... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
level the consumer seems to benefit What are the downsides for consumers?: no choice in platform content feed from ‘preferred’ sources, personal information, and pattern recognition issues to name a few. So governance and policy settings... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f0a1b93d#/f0a1b93d/12 Working PapersLocation Choices under Strategic Interactions Author:Juan Alcacer Abstract The literature on location View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
the person who was best suited to lead the early stage of company development is no longer the best person to continue leading the company. Now, the product has to be sold: You have to create a sales organization, manage multiple functions, View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
capabilities"—and to keep those doors open. For both sexes, it's important to keep the range of choices open in educational opportunities and other activities. We have lost the capacity to fall in love,for many reasons, but above all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship, illegal and informal forms of business were commonplace, diversified business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of large-scale business, corporate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and value of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace