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  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

(multidimensional) objective functions of executive participants and their organizations and show how the trio of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation, and decoupling) that have figured prominently in other industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Tony Domit, vice president of a network business unit, began developing a method that used off-the-shelf components to perform the Xerox networked printer-controller functions. Domit's solution used an IBM personal computer, some special chips, and a controller board... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

and Noble in books, Best Buy in electronics—offer similar rewards. Boots, the UK-based pharmacy and beauty supply retailer, offers a substantial reward of 4 percent, but that rate is more exception than rule. This type of reward is... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro liquidity providers, absorbing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

public infrastructure. As the nation and company grow, the firm also grows and embarks on a strategy of rapid expansion, offering a wide new range of financial products and participating in many aspects of the supply chain. Teaching... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

developing countries. As a result, they must rely on the customer-pull approach: finding ways to solve customers' dilemmas without relying on novel science. Many multinationals entering developing countries pay lip service to serving less-affluent customers but then... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

—GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is to get the data to help you find the best match for you.” —GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “I saw that major health systems were struggling to match supply... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

between 1998 and 2002. Chile did better in this era of globalization, and boomed supplying copper to China. Chile produced one-tenth of the world’s copper, but once more was badly affected when Chinese and world demand declined in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

neither too quickly nor too slowly. The Structure, Size, and Performance of Corporate Headquarters Authors:David J. Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Periodical:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the unique View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

School—Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright—show how a well-designed operations function can become a strategic competitive weapon. Their book is titled Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management positions, we show that changes in the structure of the executive team are tightly linked... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Previous studies have documented wide variation in health-care spending and prices; however, the causes for the variation in supply purchase prices across providers are not well understood. The purpose of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter standard if it can benefit from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

an order of precedence. We demonstrate that in these matching markets with slot-specific priorities, branches’ choice functions may not satisfy the substitutability conditions typically crucial for matching with contracts. Despite this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

to crucial functional systems is not just a one-time task, but an ongoing process. This approach fosters a culture of continuous improvement and preparedness, ensuring that the company is always ready to respond to potential disruptions.... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch