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- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
Business School Case 706-052 In 2006, the Philippines faces a difficult choice. Japan has offered the country a trade agreement that includes access to the Japanese labor market for Philippine nurses and other professionals. The same trade agreement, however, means... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
to obtain.” In a study of a Chinese manufacturer that encouraged factory workers to submit innovative ideas to bolster the company’s operations, Gallani and her colleagues find that providing certain perks and incentives for task-based... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7
Although some research has examined overt status rivalries, typically focusing on battles for the top positions, our study contributes novel findings on the effects of disagreement amongst all members' perceptions of their team's status hierarchy. This View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
to practice and from simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the other side's Level II... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/bvillalonga/VillalongaAmit_FM_Final.pdf Working Papers Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
airlines' paper tickets were called lifts? By failing to understand this industry-specific term, firm X had committed a major gaffe. One innocent question, and the company was suddenly out of the running. Trust is particularly elusive in... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
paper addresses these questions by analyzing the available evidence on two related claims: (1) that the current U.S. policy of deferring taxation of foreign profits represents a subsidy to American firms and (2) that activity abroad by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
search, we found nearly 3,000 articles and books had been published on some of the topics you just mentioned. However, there was an apparent discrepancy. There had been this wide, long-standing recognition of Toyota as the premier automobile View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
“The findings of our study suggest that regulatory innovation can support more efficient drug development—in particular, in settings where we have unmet medical needs. This, in turn, could save and extend lives and motivate drug View Details
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Library. The Library’s Special Collections houses one of the largest collections outside of Italy of business papers produced by the Medici family. The collection includes nearly 150 manuscript books containing business records dating... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Contingencies Driving Cannibalization and Complementarity in Multichannel Retailing (revised) Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation incentives. This paper examines this issue, exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
paper with the use of a built-in cutter-blade. After one minute, they unlatched the back of the camera to peel away a print that was face down toward the negative. 74 The film packet, which retailed for $1.75, included eight exposures on... View Details
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By: Rohit Deshpande
Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and safety inventories by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
manufactured by another firm elsewhere, and distributed by dealers everywhere—all underwritten by global cash flows. Often these networks are established without much redundancy planning or other risk-mitigation factors to counter... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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MBA/Executive education from the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management. Maria P. Roche : Runner-up for the Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the 2024 Industry Studies Association Annual Conference for... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne