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From a contractual viewpoint, the employment relations observed in the early 1960s in large unionized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan represented two contrasting cases. Employment relations in the U.S. were based largely on explicit, elaborate, and... View Details

2014
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The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network

By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser

Purpose — Understanding the Nobel Prize as a 'true' heritage brand in a networked situation and its management challenges, especially regarding identity and reputation.

Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details

Keywords: Nobel Prize; Heritage Brand; Brand Network; Networked Brand; Brand Within A Network; Brand Orientation; Brand Stewardship; Corporate Brand Identity; Reputation; Networks; Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding

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2006
Other Unpublished Work

Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry

By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson

Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Competition; Lawsuits and Litigation

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17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

them to perform, and they can exercise more of their own individual player preferences. By contrast, when performance is weak, coaches feel more pressure to improve, and so they put aside their internal biases in favor of more impartial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

identity; to process payments, subscriptions, credits and refunds; and to collect amounts owed, as applicable. To perform research (such as academic research). To assess admissions criteria and analyze individual and aggregate progress,... View Details

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

NVIDIA DEFAULT compute mode -- multiple processes can use the GPU simultaneously. Individual threads of each process may submit work to the GPU simultaneously. The exclusive_process mode corresponds to the NVIDIA EXCLUSIVE_PROCESS compute... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Wahlen of MIT Sloan—examine whether such “wisdom of the crowd” can beat the odds in predicting a blockbuster at a higher rate than the gut of an individual producer. "While some companies have used crowdsourcing as a way to make decisions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself

check—ideally a patient can be injected with Moderna's mRNA, which offers directions, or a specific recipe, to individual cells, which then use it to produce the protein or antibody needed to tackle the problem. In other words, mRNA... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

and no action." In Diomande Yantoulaye's opinion, "As managers, millennials strongly diffuse responsibility/accountability at individual levels in their organizations their willingness to continuously acquire knowledge makes... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Associate in the Productivity and Output Measurement and Corporate Finance Programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1999. 1998 Paul A. Gompers : Winner of the 1998 American Association of Individual Investors Award for Best... View Details

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the world—the value of housing in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

companies to be sure, but also small- and medium-sized businesses, individual households, and cities and states. And all of these entities (with the exception of US states) can in principle file for bankruptcy protection. But all such... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

value measurement system. In the process, you will learn how to use the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) method, which will enable you to more accurately measure costs for individual patients as well as the total cost of care... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

Versus Emergent Strategy For example, Christensen cites business scholars Henry Mintzberg and James Waters, who in 1985 published a paper defining two forms of strategies: deliberate and emergent. A deliberate strategy, they explained, is a roadmap that a company or an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

of carbon is over $100 a ton. But if we could allow users to opt in to a carbon price, I think that could be a really interesting step in the direction especially as there's broader consumer awareness of helping individuals advocate with... View Details

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

American Leaders in Unions and the Labor Movement This historically focused background note highlights the role of African American Labor Leaders in both the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. In doing so, it attempts to both highlight these noteworthy View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Options: Basics for finding price data

options at any date for any given security. For example, on January 14, 2014, there were JPM put and call options being traded with expiration dates from January 18, 2014 through January 15, 2016 and at strike price from $18.00 to $110.00. An View Details

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

sample have worked hard to keep workers productive, motivated, engaged, and connected through concerted actions. To compensate for the stress caused by remote working, several companies introduced flexible schedules to allow balancing teamwork and uninterrupted View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

among all the partners, regardless of when they joined the firm. In addition, he established a compensation plan that has nothing to do with the revenues of a particular office or the client billings of an individual partner. Instead,... View Details

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

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