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  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

positively select into negotiations on observable characteristics of the negotiation environment, only women positively select on unobservables such as their ability to negotiate. Organizational Structures View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2019 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Global Sourcing at Nike

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull
This case explores the evolution of Nike’s global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s... View Details
Keywords: Sourcing; Factory Conditions; Trade; Geography; Geographic Scope; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Labor; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Labor and Management Relations; Complexity; Sports Industry; Fashion Industry; Oregon; Portland; Asia; North and Central America
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  • February 18, 2022
  • Article

Transparency as a Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
In the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide an adequate supply of beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of hospital bed capacity is of great importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care; Health Care Demand; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care Policy; Transparency; Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Capacity; Policy; Health Industry
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  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

impossible to give a unique recipe for all software firms—it really depends on the industry's configuration and the placement of your product with respect to competitors. Q: Your paper concludes by citing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: U.S. Law and Economics in the 1920s By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—The impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 8, 2010
  • Other Article

Multinational Firms, Agglomeration, and Global Networks

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
Agglomeration effects are important but difficult to measure. This column uses a new database with precise geographical information to investigate the locational interdependence of multinational firms. Knowledge spillovers and capital- and labour-market externalities... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Business Subsidiaries; Industry Clusters; Multinational Firms and Management; Network Effects
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  • 26 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play. Zeenat Potia: Can you give some context around the... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

Western technology extensively to face globalization and succeed. Very much Western-centric in approach yet Asian in practice, the Fungs of Li & Fung have mastered techniques View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

just numbers, and that it's odd to have to pay for a number. With prices stuck very close to zero, and demand steady and growing, economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

challenged efforts to transition to a “greener” economy, and this site provided a stark example of energy transformation in process. The Crossbridge Energy refinery was acquired from Royal Dutch Shell by... View Details
  • September 2008 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

Examining the Adoption of Drug-Eluting Stents

By: Elie Ofek
Marketers are often tasked with exploring the factors that impact the long-run adoption of a new product or technology. The new product under consideration here is the drug-eluting stent: a device which props open a clogged artery to the heart and then releases... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Adoption; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
  • 18 Jul 2019
  • News

The Pursuit of Impact

Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder View Details
  • Web

Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

more relevant and effective in three areas: training and education aligned with industry needs, commitments to hire community college students, and sharing View Details
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

well as tying up capital from buying and paying for materials and merchandise well in advance of when they are used. The quality of incoming... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Giorgos Zervas, Boston University

  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

small and dispersed, and they were unsophisticated in understanding the properties of metal-cutting coolants. They were usually accessed by a second tier View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-Level Evidence from the U.S. Production Network

By: Ebehi Iyoha
This paper examines the extent to which productivity gains are transmitted across U.S. firms through buyer-supplier relationships. Many empirical studies measure firm-to-firm spillovers using firm-level productivity estimates derived from control function approaches.... View Details
Keywords: Supply and Industry; Partners and Partnerships; Production
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  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

further forced changes to customers and hence firm-based behaviors. The outcome of customers’ health and fears has resulted not in a traditional recession but a “deaccession,”... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service