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- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
Exchange Commission-approved NYSE and Nasdaq governance listing standards. The risk now is that boards will become overly focused on regulatory compliance and not perform their broader and more managerial responsibilities adequately. Can... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
finance course. I’m not a leader, but I am a good manager, and I can make decisions. I like to affiliate myself with smart, dynamic people who are creative. I like to make things happen, but I don’t need to be there when they hand out... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
managerial model emerging out of these capabilities the "sense-and-respond" approach. He and HBS professor Stephen P. Bradley explore the implications of this paradigm shift in their upcoming book, Sense and... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
http://or.journal.informs.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/60/5/1199.full.pdf+html Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics Authors:Cary, Matthew, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog
key theme in this module of the course is that growth is a dynamic process involving a balancing of market opportunities (demand) and organizational capabilities and resources (supply). Profitable growth... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
drug business. They relied, however, on licensing rather than building their own in-house capabilities for drug discovery and commercialization. In the low-tech OTC [over-the-counter] sector, they consistently maintained a strong profit... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
firms has intensified more recently. Tech-nology Fountainheads sheds light on the differences among the two groups - especially in terms of early development, missions, structures, and the distinct ways in which they operate - and considers the View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we estimate the welfare implications of this change and find that firm values increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
of energy to generate electricity is another dynamic area. If we're going to meet the goals set by the Paris Climate Accord, much of the transport sector, which is based largely on fossil fuels, will need to switch to electricity... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
cost estimating, contracting, implementation, project control, and evaluation managerial performance. Too Hot to Handle? How to Manage Relationship Conflict Authors:A. C. Edmondson and D. M. Smith Periodical:California Management Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the optimal policy is not to hold reserves at all. This finding is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
years, unit members have studied numerous organizations, ranging from Taco Bell to Intuit, to determine what maximizes profit and growth in service organizations. In so doing, they have formulated a key business dynamic that they term the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
doesn't mean the US can follow this model." Yadeed Lobo was more optimistic. As he put it, "The United States is good at achieving turnarounds " But he warned that "the biggest obstacle will be organizational and View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
corporate participation in programs that lack certification but instead incorporate civil society scrutiny can, under certain conditions, serve as a credible signal of environmental management capabilities by discouraging firms with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
the future and the managerial skills required of the "conflict-competent organization." Assistant Professor Patrick W. Sileo mathematically analyzes bargaining behavior and how people should select negotiating situations and tactics. For... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
Welcome to the age of business interdependence, say HBS professor Marco Iansiti and collaborator Roy Levien, authors of the new HBSP book The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
unhappy organization is unhappy in its own way, but once we set aside the details, the fundamental dynamics of decline—and recovery from it—in these three companies turn out to be remarkably similar. Indeed, across a wide variety of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter