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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
broadly than operational boundaries, is likely to be a superior strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational contracts that support technical View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises questions of growth, including the challenges of replicating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
examine the organizational transformation of risk experts in two large U.K. banks, where we study the dynamics of the risk management function over a period of five years. Our findings indicate that the rising influence of a staff function on strategic decision making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Kleindorfer and Yoram Wind. Wharton School Publishing, forthcoming Abstract Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
process improvement in interdependent service settings: increasing process capacity at one step in the process can increase demand at that step, as well as for a subsequent shared service, and both can result in an overall negative impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Second, despite an initial flurry of protectionism and inward-looking politics, it will become clear that the best way to lessen the severity of worldwide recessions is to increase the volume of interdependent trade among nations. Which... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
capital sector. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract Multi-sided platforms (MSPs), which bring together two or more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
about their managerial challenges. They identified them easily, but most viewed them as distinct issues to be solved independently, rather than seeing their organizations as integrated systems in which these are all interdependent parts... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
respect to designing and maintaining their costing systems, including the need to keep the costing system in line with the business processes of the firm throughout its life cycle; the setting of transfer prices, which highlights the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Initiative serves as an umbrella for a wide range of research projects, course development activities, and related endeavors. Now in its fifth year, the work of the Initiative has coalesced into three distinct yet interdependent areas of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choice of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
between groups within organizations but has not investigated or theorized the ways in which differences in task and context influence how organizational groups best learn from error. Using process uncertainty and actor interdependence as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Periodical:Administrative Science Quarterly 52, no. 3 (September 2007): 32-69 Abstract This study of the procurement relationships of two major U.S. auto manufacturers examines the effects of two dimensions of organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
organizations and in the right locations to deliver high-value care. The strategy for moving to a high-value health care delivery system comprises six interdependent components: organizing around patients' medical conditions rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
needed for patient care. We found that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments' routines was a major source of operational failures. The low levels of interconnectedness occurred because of how the internal supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
variables rather than givens for the analysis. Beyond identifying and specifying parties and fronts, negotiation campaign analysis and design calls for assessing interdependencies among fronts, deciding on separation v. combination of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make traditional antitrust market analysis difficult. The information technology (IT) industry today consists of a rapidly evolving and massively interconnected network of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel