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  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

it. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708044 EFI, Inc. (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-044 EFI has a unique sales compensation challenge. They cannot allocate sales credit for their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

Abstract No abstract is available at this time.   Cases & Course MaterialsBayesian Estimation & Black-Litterman Harvard Business School Note 208-085 Describes a practical method for asset allocation that is more robust to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

strategy. On the other hand, one becomes so determined to hold on to territory and advantage that they resist change and even information. Organizations can balance these drives by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

strategy. On the other hand, one becomes so determined to hold on to territory and advantage that they resist change and even information. Organizations can balance these drives by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

the platform can resolve these problems and create value by limiting the number of applications available. By limiting choice, the platform may create new equilibria (including the allocation that maximizes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

informed individuals is likely to lead to improvements in dealing with the problem of economic benchmarking. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2517496 Scale and Innovation During Two U.S. Breakthrough Eras By: Nicholas, Tom... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money, and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. When expressing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

do not receive capital allocations for building or leasing facilities, which represent significant start-up and recurring costs. They must either reduce what they spend on teaching and learning or secure private funding to make the rent.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

certain settings. In particular we find that the impact of the changes on problem solving, standardization of work, and coordination improve the way that the firm learns and its productivity. Using a detailed case study we document the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

problems associated with the profit measures by directing managerial attention to activities that have longer-term consequences on firm performance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

easy to conjure up a glowing vision of how the efforts of NGOs could focus on problem solving without getting bogged down in corruption or bureaucracy. But the strengths of the NGO model have some corresponding weaknesses—in agenda... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

selected through exit early in their careers, made time allocation decisions such as delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated with becoming an inventor,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of competitors, prize View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

serious diagnosis that would be reimbursed at a higher rate. The problem is a huge drain on taxpayers, costing an estimated $44 billion in 2012, a full 10 percent of Medicare's payments. At the same time, hospitals, especially nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After substantial planning View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

restrictions. Woolf had been farming crops for more than 30 years, but this was the first time they suffered a water shortage so severe that crops had to be abandoned in the field. Even if there was short-term relief in the form of an increased View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace