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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Edelman, Benjamin, and Stephen M. Ryan Abstract—Every device connected to the global Internet needs a numeric identifier, an "Internet Protocol" address ("IP address"). The Internet's continued growth presents a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance. These swings can occur because each of the four drives was created by evolution to improve the odds of gene survival. When any one drive... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
later in the day, test performance decreases by 0.9% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 0.7%–1.0%). However, a 20–30 minute break improves average test performance by 1.7% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 1.2%–2.2%). These findings have two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
broader social impact of their products and platforms,” says Luca. In his years at HBS, Luca has focused his research on, among other things, ways to tackle discrimination in online platforms, coming up with a series of recommendations for Airbnb; helping to View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
and elsewhere. Yet the book shows that these entrepreneurs contributed significantly to the growth of environmental awareness among consumers, business leaders, and others. However the Earth's environmental health has continued to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
in reinforcing stereotypes, which conflate leadership with masculinity. When the industry or subject of the case is traditionally associated with men and masculinity, the leader-equals-male effect compounds. "A robust body of research has found that seeing or hearing... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
tailor-made to the needs of each country's political, social, and economic priorities. Supplements the case "Nestlé's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition." Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working. We... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
encouraged even relative strangers to hold each other accountable for progress. Thus the team scaffolds enabled the construction of group coordination processes among fluid groups. Quantitative analysis showed that performance improved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Gap, Inc., 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Gap, Inc., 2012." Harvard Business School Case 713-511, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
research to understand when and for whom cash and non-cash rewards increase intrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, and optimal functioning in order to improve the design and implementation of existing reward programs.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
2018 Independently published Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking By: Zaltman, Gerald Abstract—What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
programming model, despite the fact that this would initially slow the project down. From this point on, competitors in the browser space faced a formidable challenge—they were competing not only against the Explorer team, but also against the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
unprecedented frenzy of convergence of 1) adoption of systems such as ERP and CRM; 2) management improvements such as BPRE; 3) problems to solve such as Y2K; and 4) new territory to pioneer such as e-business. Q: Who are the current... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
underrepresented communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, executives worked to continue these efforts, despite supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and erratic consumer spending. Beyond the moral imperatives of confronting... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of agglomeration and investigate the patterns and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
causing many companies to rethink their supply chain strategies, which suddenly seem extremely fragile. When a natural disaster hits, relief organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders swing into action with crisis-response plans that have been... View Details
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
authentic—because they are—and have proven very good at garnering more fans. For instance, the Facebook pages for both Nutella and Coca-Cola were created, unsolicited, by actual fans. In both cases, the companies have encouraged these users to View Details