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- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
PublicationsSetting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics Authors:Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero Publication:Impact: The Magazine of PSI Abstract Health decision makers throughout View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009
these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
supposed to know about the trade order: the investor who initiated the transaction, and the broker who... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
captures what we believe are the most important features of the Linux-Windows competitive battle (faster demand-side learning on the part of Linux and an View Details
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Last month, Boeing stock went wobbly on news that test flights and View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
meanness level that a penal system based on "retribution" tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment. We find that when initial beliefs differ, two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Development at the Base of the Pyramid" explores a 2012 sanitation initiative in which Indian Union Minister Jairam Ramesh advised women not to marry men whose houses... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
School Note 811-016 This note discusses how some firms (start-ups and established companies) maximize customer value and profits via their pricing processes. It is aimed at companies that compete on the basis of performance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
asked whether the objectives of the kind of agreement being discussed are even relevant to the world's needs. While suggesting that major government View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
claim to systematic scientific insight. This book describes the first generation of economic forecasters and the methods they created to predict the future of View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
to enter the fine art sales space, these two auction houses explore modifications to their business model. Some efforts by the two organizations have already begun but are in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
possible priorities for the company's "Project Symphony," guaranteeing the winners a high level of visibility and support across the media conglomerate's broadcast... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
examines the operations strategy of Whole Foods, one of the largest natural grocery chains in the United States. In late 2013, Whole Foods was expanding rapidly, with a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models and theories. In this paper, we argue that operations management scholars should do the same. We highlight initial studies that have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
to demonstrate the full economic and social benefit of BD’s shared value initiatives. The competition for internal capital and the challenges of taking on new types of products... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
just adopted a "New Growth Path," hoping to create several million jobs over the next few years. Both the finance minister and the head of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump
actions was not without risk for the CEOs and their companies” While many CEOs prefer to stay under the radar and avoid public scrutiny, Ken Frazier led the way with his... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
team-specific human capital by investing more in the internal networks and unique capabilities and resources of their own companies. Second, women took greater care when assessing a prospective new employer. In this article, Groysberg... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
emerging and developed markets. The stated objective was to create a corruption-proof social security infrastructure that enables the disenfranchised to access benefits without any diversion to middlemen and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne