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  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

process including military services, industry, and Congress, hardening them against change, Fox says. The book excerpt below looks at how previous reform studies have fallen significantly short of correcting... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 16 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

Social networking sites such as MySpace.com are some of the most trafficked on the Web—MySpace had 46 million unique users in June and features nearly 100 million personal profiles posted by users, many of whom are in their teens View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

urban sustainability initiatives and to create highly efficient and livable spaces. "The challenges of global urban redevelopment are an ideal opportunity for collaboration between the fields of design,... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Self-expression," published in the March 2013 Administrative Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

important to be left to engineers, and too important to be left to graphic designers," Edelman says. As they continue this line of research, Edelman and Luca are studying some... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • October 1, 2021
  • Article

An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance.

By: B.M. Balk, M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps and J.L. Zofio
Cross-efficiency measurement is an extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that allows for tie-breaking ranking of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) using all the peer evaluations. In this article we examine the theory of cross-efficiency measurement by comparing a... View Details
Keywords: Efficiency Analysis; Performance Benchmarking; Warehousing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

converted from hot-to cold-type printing technologies, and captured the labor cost savings afforded by new techniques. Nieva de Figueiredo, in her study of the post-war U.S. newspaper industry, explains that... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

A Message from Dean Clark

technology will play a role in a new initiative that has grown out of the strong interest many of our students have in entrepreneurship and high tech-businesses. This January, our Intensive Field View Details
Keywords: Educational Services

    Uncovering the roots of innovation

    Distinctive Collections at MIT allowed me to gain complementary insights into the scientific and technological foundations of the industry and the evolution of academic... View Details
    • 12 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 12

    the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Publication:Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 23 Aug 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

    study how consumers react to vocal chief executives. Why JPMorgan Chase Is Investing Millions in Detroit JPMorgan Chase is making extensive investments into the revitalization of Detroit. What does it expect in return? Professor Joseph... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology
    • 01 Apr 1998
    • News

    Plunging Into the Net

    coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based... View Details
    • 26 Sep 2024
    • HBS Case

    If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

    people, about consequences and risks and benefits for other people, and also in a murkier but important sense, the ethics of an organization’s culture View Details
    Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Technology; Technology
    • 26 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

    studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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    This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

    • 19 Feb 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 19

    economic welfare. Paper: http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.45 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Cuili Qian... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 16

    America By: Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 17 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 17

    Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Jul 2019
    • Blog Post

    Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

    change was a reality we lived with every day – experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and increases in sea levels that caused thousands of Maldivians to migrate to my city.   ... View Details