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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
patient care. The results also highlight the need to develop guidelines to optimize ED test ordering practices. 2025 Working Paper The Hidden Costs of Working Multiple Jobs: Implications for Spending Behavior and Wellbeing By: Paige Tsai... View Details
- 09 Jan 2024
- In Practice
Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year
growing impact on job roles, salary structures, and how companies are organized and managed. This transformation will bring new opportunities but also challenges in adapting to a rapidly changing work environment. Data and algorithms as... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
utilities and their customers manage energy demand efficiently. Pasi explains how Sagewell’s technology helps reduce peak electricity usage, which in turn lowers energy costs and lessens climate impact. He also discusses how smart data... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
massive cost overruns and delays. Second, the United States captured most of these economic benefits, partially because of its geographical situation and partially because it could leverage its military might to obtain a better agreement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
growth opportunities came from education planning and account aggregation, or helping clients collect household financial data in one place. “Actively going after clients by offering information sessions, teaching them financial... View Details
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
Experiment There are concerns that managers repurchase shares myopically to benefit themselves at the costs of shareholders and society. Due to these concerns, the SEC adopted its 2023 Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rules (the... View Details
- September 2002
- Case
Abercrombie & Kent
By: Frances X. Frei, Brian Corbett, Mark Partin and Daniel Rethazy
Describes Abercrombie & Kent, the outdoor adventure company that has provided services throughout the entire history of the outdoor adventure industry. Provides an opportunity to learn how the company successfully grown into a premier player in the industry by adapting... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Service Operations; Marketing Reference Programs; Product Development; Business Growth and Maturation; Balance and Stability; Marketing Channels; Transportation; Growth and Development Strategy; Travel Industry
Frei, Frances X., Brian Corbett, Mark Partin, and Daniel Rethazy. "Abercrombie & Kent." Harvard Business School Case 603-002, September 2002.
- August 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp.
By: Paul M. Healy
Compares two companies in the information capture software industry. Asks students to analyze and compare the performance of two companies (one in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States) from the perspective of a buy-side analyst reporting to the manager... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Environmental Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Reporting; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Economic Growth; Fair Value Accounting; Information Industry; Computer Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Healy, Paul M. "DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp." Harvard Business School Case 106-015, August 2005. (Revised April 2007.)
- August 1994
- Case
Saturn Corp.'s Module II Decision
In the Spring of 1994, Saturn Corp. was setting sales records by attracting more than 25,000 buyers per month. Saturn officials believed there was a long-term opportunity to sell 400,000 to 500,000 cars per year in the United States and selected international markets.... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Production; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; Tennessee; United States
McGahan, Anita M., and Greg Keller. "Saturn Corp.'s Module II Decision." Harvard Business School Case 795-011, August 1994.
- July–September 2020
- Article
Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation
By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Contest; Innovation; Employee Engagement; Organizational Learning; Health Care; Health Care Delivery; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Learning; Employees; Perception; Health Care and Treatment
Jung, Olivia, Andrea Blasco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation." Health Care Management Review 45, no. 3 (July–September 2020): 255–266.
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
critical to success today and in the years to come. They must consider cost cutting as one step on the journey to future success. In a sense, every business, large or small, needs to think of itself as a "new venture" right now.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
double-edged sword. In the short run, working with trusted suppliers reduces transaction costs and furthers the buyer's competitive standing. This is the effect that has been emphasized in previous work. But trust can also make you blind... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
gesture won‘t have inconvenienced or offended anyone. Alternatively, identify an investment that costs little but impacts everyone positively. For example, you could replace the worn out, old-fashioned carpeting in all the public spaces... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
opportunities on the African continent, the club provides services and resources for African students and any student with a professional or cultural interest in Africa. The club also promotes the engagement of the African business... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
welfare-state expansion. My findings help explain and describe the contingencies underlying the political consequences of globalization. February 13, 2025 Article Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs By: Jaya Y. Wen , Ebehi Iyoha... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Positioning; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Denmark; United States; Europe; China; India; Middle East; North Africa
Badaracco, Joseph L., Tom Quinn, and John Schultz. "Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs." Harvard Business School Case 324-114, April 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
perfectly pinned down, which creates both opportunities and challenges. Sophisticated dealmakers are able to take advantage of the ambiguity to shape the game to their advantage. Q: How do sophisticated dealmakers shape the game to their... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Health Care Initiative - Health Care
and innovation, and to disseminate these works. Alumni Opportunities to participate in health care activities at the school, and through the ongoing development of the alumni health care network Executive Education Programs that... View Details