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  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

cost of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the relationship lasts too long. For commodified goods and services, this tradeoff can be the primary determinant of the duration of supply contracts. I develop a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

to weigh the political ramifications as he considered which initiative to pursue. He knew that despite his various accomplishments, this choice would likely impact his legacy as governor. As he weighed the decision, Daniels began to jot down notes about the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

banks understand the tradeoffs that the public is willing to accept in terms of unemployment for inflation, at least in terms of keeping the average level of one particular emotion (contentment) constant. An alternative use of these data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

judgment or tactical execution. Having a metric in place that rates your priorities and weighs tradeoffs will enable you to make good decisions on the fly. Axiom #3: Learn And Adapt Bolstering your capacity to sense and respond is key to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

tracking configuration changes will pay off over the long run. As many companies discovered with quality management and industrial safety programs, perceptions of tradeoffs between security and productivity are often incorrect. Security... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

to win. Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2211700   Working PapersDelegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors:McElheran, Kristina Abstract Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

measurement-error variances). We then compare five classes of ERPs nominated in recent studies to demonstrate how researchers can easily implement our two-dimensional evaluative framework. Our empirical analyses document a tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

delivery around specific categories of disease. It provides an opportunity to evaluate BWH's approach to integration along all of these dimensions and to identify the nature of the tradeoffs that hospitals—specifically, academic medical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

opportunities: private signals that can be distorted by managers, and public signals that are undistorted but noisy. Headquarters faces a tradeoff between the cost of attaining an accurate private signal and the value of the information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2001
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Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

standpoints—layoffs; cost-cutting to the point where you know you're going to stretch your work force very, very thin; quality tradeoffs that may mean that you're not going to be delivering on what you say, and there may even be a safety... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest how ambidexterity acts as a dynamic capability. We suggest that efficiency and innovation need not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

been priorities in national initiatives. Conclusions. Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging frontline staff experiences with work systems to identify and remove operational failures. In contrast to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

changes in incentives for achieving integration. Examining a systemic tradeoff consciously acknowledged by the organization, we further argue that alignment encouraged by this collaborative engagement can be more important than achieving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

tradeoffs that people make between having more time or having more money, and the extent to which people focus on each resource can have a significant impact on happiness. Considering subjective well-being (or “happiness”) as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

attempts at managing these ”strategic paradoxes” fail because they’re not managed carefully and consistently. (It’s easy to write a great purpose statement or to dream up a new business model but way more difficult to follow through when it’s time to make actual View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

cost/quality tradeoff for a Michelin-starred restaurant," said Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the lead author of the HBS case study Chef Davide Oldani and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

individual's behavior across different situations and over time (in the language of rational choice, character can be thought of as a stable system of preferences that informs the tradeoffs and choices an individual is likely to make in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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