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  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

business. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609011 China's Evolving Labor Laws Harvard Business School Case 308-092 The (A) case describes key provisions of the new labor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

itemizes what it spends on cotton, cutting, sewing, dyeing, finishing, and transporting each shirt, consumers become more attracted to the brand and more likely to purchase. “By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain everything you did for the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

undertake coordinated action despite the fact that they are often composed of very diverse units; and the role families play in these organizations. Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the U.K., is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

low-wage workers.” Another point of view rejects the notion that such a competition exists. David Wittenberg commented, “Workers don’t ‘compete for your profits,’ they contract to provide services for a wage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for digital labor markets, and 3) quantification of own- and cross-country elasticities for contract work by... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

Abstract All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

of the common contracts people sign with themselves each year. If you have resolved to eat healthier, try ordering your groceries a week in advance of delivery. Internet delivery services make it all too... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances Authors: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Publication: American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze how variations in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

program in El Salvador is giving unemployed youths the skills to work in the country’s growing service sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53719 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

has sharply declined over the past 30 years, from 60% or 70% to only about 20%. What accounts for this trend? Disruption is coming for management consulting, the authors say, as it has recently come for law. For many years the professional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

balances the four drives while avoiding negative leadership and leaders who are missing the drive to bond. Order the Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470623845.html Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity Decisions in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown to rationalize deposit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

of consumers towards high fee inferior products. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54865 forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

exclusive right of way, typically an elevated guideway, though track can also be installed at or below ground level. A vehicle leaves when passengers are ready, and service is nonstop from origin to destination, with no intermediate stops... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

afterward, he and his mother contracted yellow fever; they were lying in bed together, very sick, when one morning he wakes up to find she's died. That's something you just don't get over, and I believe it contributed to the chip he... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Financial Services

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