Time And Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

company's long-term success. And Job's track record is hit or miss, he says. Take Apple's return to investors. Yoffie says that if you invested a dollar in Apple in 1992, it would be worth $.79 today. The S&P 500 over that same View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

Thus, founder Jack Ma and his management team, who own a little over 9 percent of the company, can still retain control of its destiny. (Meanwhile, although Hong Kong stock market authorities are officially... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

game is supposed to be quality up and cost down. And this is one where that has not happened. And it's been very slow with the quality... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

talent. Boldness and quickness go hand in hand on the battlefield. As Warfighting states, "Since war is fluid and opportunities fleeting, focus applies to time as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

Allison Ciechanover (Harvard MBA 2002) and Kunal Modi (Harvard MBA/MPP 2013), a manager at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. The influx of wealthy tech workers into San Francisco'sneighborhoods is the subject of a case... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

promotional spending (including that directed toward physicians) as a percentage of pharmaceutical sales remains relatively constant over time and thus the growth of DTCA represents a shift in the mix of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

20 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How to be a Customer

the contract price if the seller's costs clearly exceed expectations or promise to refer the supplier to a friend. You may want to do business with the same supplier again. (Why waste time on selecting... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

Profile

Lara Hodgson

government customers. While running Nourish, which sold a patented line of spill-proof purified water for infants and toddlers, Hodgson grew increasingly frustrated with the difficulties of getting paid in a View Details

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

the former explanation: that the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that Amazon's entry reduces the shipping View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

salience of one's own ethical standards at the time of temptation (that is, when one faces the decision to cheat) reduces unethical behavior, a conclusion reached through a combination of lab and field... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

likely to see a lot more deaths: a 10 percentage point increase in poverty is associated with 10 additional conflict-related deaths. Once we control for poverty, measures of caste and linguistic diversity... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

environment not by doing nothing, but by accelerating past organizational routines based on established assumptions.— Donald N. Sull The benefits of this knowledge sharing, however, are likely to decline over time as the industry settles... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Jan 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

Laurence Dutton SUMMING UP How Should America Admit Talented Workers of the World? The notion of attracting talented workers to the United States deserves support, especially at times when the unemployment rate is low. But the H-1B... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

June 2024
Case

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details

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05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for... View Details