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  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

discreet: improving Bertelsmann's employer brand; managing Bertelsmann talent across the firm's decentralized businesses; and ensuring early identification and appropriate development of Bertelsmann's top 100 high potential managers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2021
  • News

The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders using a decentralized network of drivers to the group buyers, who handle the last-mile-delivery... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

collaboration and cooperation over decentralized individualism. How can large firms like BP collaborate among units and divisions and still remain financially profitable? A: The approach at BP was developed precisely to improve the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

The Latest Model

a missed opportunity. “Blockchain platforms are mini-economies written in code,” she explains. These digital systems are intended to help people carry out transactions and create value. And who better to help guide the implementation of a new digital currency or View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

posed by greater decentralization not only in health care but in other settings as well. "Some services that we have thought of as commodities actually have subtle features that make them differentiated," he says. "Ultimately, the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model and grow through geographic expansion. Another option was to decentralize more tasks to sellers and/or buyers, for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Q&A: Andrew Kendall

other half will be split equally between general administrative work and being out in the field. We are a decentralized operation, with over eighty reservations and one hundred staff members scattered throughout the state, so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

seeking by the managers. However, this increase in market size will lead to the entry of more firms, which calls for more decentralized decision making. Under reasonable conditions, the aggregate effect leads to a U-shaped relationship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

spent enormous sums, but without getting significant commercial returns. " Today, in-house funding at large corporations still makes up more than half of private-sector R&D expenditures. But in reaction to the decline in results, many companies have either... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We end by running instrumental variable estimates using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist

lead pipe replacement, decentralized water access, leak detection, utility software. It’s insane.” Even in the absence of getting the politics right, Tom sees a “colossal commercial opportunity for water.” Why? “We are about to embark on... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

an effective set of choices. Balancing search and stability, the authors argue, is a central challenge of organizing. They explore this challenge with an agent-based simulation that shows (1) how a change in organizational structure, for example, a shift from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

sector, including space-for-earth and space-for-space activities in LEO, cislunar, Mars, and other areas of operation. Identify feasible ways of regulating and governing decentralized space activities, including the establishment of... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/608054-PDF-ENG Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework F. Asís Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 109-079 Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

Ideal Laboratory In the early 90s, Hewlett-Packard seemed a perfect setting for innovations in pay. A so-called "built-to-last" company, it was highly decentralized and enjoyed a sense of mutual trust, high commitment, and wide... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization and business unit... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

Dennis, and Maria Loumioti Abstract—We study the portability of soft information in a decentralized financial institution. Theories from a variety of literatures suggest that difficulties in capturing, storing, and communicating soft... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne