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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
addresses this gap and develops a theoretical background for further theoretical and empirical work on interorganizational cooperation between not-for-profits. We emphasize that for not-for-profits, unlike for-profits, neither inputs nor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches the outputs of these two production systems. The company has also built extensive expertise in accessing the many mortgage and funding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
power plants were financed with long-term fixed price contracts for both inputs (gas supply) and outputs (and electricity purchase). More recently, "merchant plants" were financed without the benefit of long-term contracts,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
Considering how much money is spent in the field and the advances that the US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. Dafny: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
radiologist's experience reading scans from the same customer and involving the same anatomical area was found to produce the largest increase in efficiency, with an additional 1,000 cases of cumulative experience increasing a radiologist's subsequent weekly View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
they look at on the global rankings? Bill: There are two basic fundamental systems. One is by reputation and one is by output. What output do you measure? Usually today it is primarily research output in a... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
model choices aimed at increasing volume such as building new stores, increasing product variety, everyday low prices (EDLP), and high-powered incentives for store managers. Input and output prices played a smaller role under David Glass... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a cost on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an impact, what will it take and how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Abstract—Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
concern about climate change in different countries with national commitments to reduce CO2 output under the Kyoto Protocol, the correlation is evident (see Figure 1.2). In general, countries whose population perceived climate change as... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
Kennecott also arranged for an Export-Import Bank loan plus U.S. political risk insurance. The mine's output would then be sold to North American and European industrial customers under long-term supply contracts, with collection rights... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
the sector, is that the metrics it uses to track its investments are largely output oriented, not outcome oriented. As an example, Acumen has invested in a Kenyan business that builds toilet and shower facilities in central business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
ghostwriter, and there's only one of these six books that's coauthored and that's the casebook, which is Strategic Dynamics. High Output Management is a book that's gone through at least two editions. It's a book people still refer to,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
that firms focusing on a particular task—at either a divisional or firm level—experience higher output and productivity with respect to that task than unfocused firms. After controlling for selection, scale, and learning effects, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. In this case students explore the challenges of using sentiment analysis to monitor and understand public perception around brands. Technical topics include building a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel