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- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
the interaction of the number and spacing of a family’s children with the pricing policies of the local school. This within-neighborhood variation in tuition prices allows us to control for unobserved determinants of demand with a fine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
disrupt existing processes and services for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. These breakthrough laser technologies were protected by a strong intellectual property (IP) portfolio, which provided Foro with the flexibility to pursue a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
to respond effectively once they did. We focus particularly on the problems GM encountered in developing the relational contracts essential to modern design and manufacturing. We discuss a number of possible causes for these difficulties:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
and maintaining a conventional ABC system have prevented this innovation from being an effective, timely, and up-to-date management tool. The time-driven ABC approach overcomes these difficulties and has a number of advantages: 1. easier... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
individual passengers’ connection times, the system also produces quantile forecasts for the number of passengers arriving at the immigration and security areas. Academic/Practical relevance: Airports and airlines have been challenged to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference point/reporting procedure/language/labels. As such, they, too, represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
being all-inclusive (as opposed to one where guests are charged for each additional activity or dining option on a pay-as-you-go basis) and whether to convert a large number of the 4-star rooms into 5-star suites. Recently acquired... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
client relationships to the rest of the company, growing their business from just local transactions to the full array of services JLL provided. Second, local brokers became aware of a great number of mid-sized clients whose real estate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a larger result, typically an ultimate target agreement with sufficient support to make it sustainable. When the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
what my book suggests is that we are not the first to face what seem like overwhelming challenges," says Koehn. "There are a number of moments in the past 150 years when the American people and the American economy stood in what... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
identified several important customers, however, who actually preferred suppliers capable of establishing a long-term relationship based on value added, rather than offering the lowest price on individual projects. Rockwater decided to implement a new strategy—to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
and arts and culture management. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515701-HTM-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-040 Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste The global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
asymmetry in message strength in turn permits cutoff equilibria, where players take action after receiving a minimum number of confirmations. Good Morning Creativity: Task Reactivation During Sleep Enhances Beneficial Effect of Sleep on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Points out the roles of bilateral investment treaties and regional economic agreements in making arbitration accessible to an increasing number of foreign investors. Views the various arrangements as substitutes for a global agreement on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
going outside the company's boundaries to gather the necessary data. Different measurement methodologies will need to be used, including aggregating data from transactions (e.g., number of calls from whistleblowers), measurement of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace