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- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract—We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010) Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
launched major changes in its R&D organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based model. The case also explores... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
decentralized nature. The content industry must find ways to embrace the new technology and profit from it. Q: What are the practical "takeaways" for managers in related areas? A: At a broad level, in designing new business... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
and previous studies of decentralization in China, I discuss this work according to the theoretical approaches (institutional, ideational, and socio-historical) used to explain the origins of regional differences. I conclude by examining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
infrastructure, there’ll need to be a shift in the IT layer that ensures those assets can be coordinated and optimized. Singularity is using an algorithmic approach to achieve carbon reduction and sustainability, cost savings, and reliability through a more View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s local circumstances. Our research site switched from its traditional decentralized hiring model... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
California, policy mattered a great deal. However, Danish firms, building on inherited technological capabilities and benefitting from a small-scale and decentralized industrial structure, benefitted more from Californian public policies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
bringing market forces to space is so important. It’s going to take decentralized creativity of people who know their businesses well and know what their customers need. I hope every business leader out there asks themselves and their... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
control and order processing, particularly the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized inventories. Students must complete a quantitative analysis of the costs and benefits of several alternatives. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test. Should the knowledge management tools be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other such pairs. The situation facing such pairs resembles models of the "double coincidence of wants," and relatively few exchanges have been consummated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Groups in Decentralized Organizations (revised) Authors:Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-090.pdf Team Familiarity,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align the previously View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
1997, 2002). This paper explains how state governments got the funds to pay for education and examines the incentives that politicians had to spend on education between 1889 and 1930. Our findings are threefold. First, we show that the Constitution of 1891, which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
school board, where it is used to monitor and guide the district's accomplishments. The implementation, however, hits some problems when the superintendent resigns, followed by high turnover among his replacements. Enables a discussion of the role of centralization... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
both organizations. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708-417 PublicationsLeading and Creating Collaboration in Decentralized Organizations Authors:Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace