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- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
companies perform sales, marketing, and product definition work, while eastern companies in Asia like his perform the engineering and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
they pursue internally, while relying heavily on outsourcing many of those activities to strategic partners. At the same time, they seek to increase the number and nature of product offerings, many of which... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
insurers, a potentially costly process. Stern and her co-authors studied 171 new drugs that Germany’s IQWiG reviewed between 2012 and 2016. They found that manufacturers were... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
impact, especially on practitioners. A central reason is that Porter addresses very specific needs of different practitioner constituencies, providing a framework and actionable ideas they could easily View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
You want people to touch your product and actually get the brand experience. You could get to a point where stores like Best Buy become just showrooms and fulfillment is done... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
would manufacture lithium-ion batteries used in Tesla’s electric vehicles on an unprecedented scale. In early 2015, Tesla announced a new product line of battery packs designed for large-scale energy storage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
number of days a loan remains in syndication. Using market-level and cross-sectional variation in time on the market, we find that a shorter syndication period is associated with a lower final interest rate. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
pricing power from the manufacturer to the retailer, (2) the infiltration of more private-label products into the market, and (3) the rise in commodity costs as a result of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Japanese system, combining its traditional low-cost manufacturing prowess with an ability to bring high-quality, high-margin branded products swiftly to market. Like Samsung, today's emerging giants—Haier in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
perspective endure. This article relates to a presentation delivered by Morris Cohen for Paul's Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Distinguished Fellows Award,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
ensuing ecological risks and costs. We then discuss how an operations management lens contributes to the issue and criteria to help the Sustainable Operations Management perspective endure. This article... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10%... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Cotton Manufacturing At the time of the American War of Independence (1776-1783) and for several decades after it, Great Britain dominated the global production of cotton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Cook Composites and Polymers Co. Harvard Business School Case 608-055 This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
technical variation that, over time, gets resolved, and we tend to see what has been called a "dominant design." I am interested in the interplay between that technical variation and cognitive... View Details