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  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

cash-only offer from Cablevision, and a $15 billion cash-only offer from KKR and Providence. The fact that both Comcast and Cablevision are themselves family-controlled and with a large wedge between the family's ownership and control... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jun 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

get to the top, quality people keep you there." Other respondents helped develop a kind of construct for NSM, one encompassing a number of other management behaviors. For example, Gerald Nanninga couched his support in these terms:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

computer to access data stored on another and to interact with that information. As he publicized his innovation among his fellow employees and across the computing community, people admired the quality of his work. In fact, in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

to maintain just one product. Hospitals want to control the health care delivery system, and they've become oligopolists or monopolists in many markets, thus obviating price and quality competition, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

1839 and 1939. We find large effects of the prizes on competitive entry and the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

and the present. (The comparable figures for India are $330 and $2,104). Nonetheless, likely negative outcomes range from poor quality construction and growing work-related accidents to the remarkably low level of personal trust seen in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Dec 2019
  • What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

schedules, and even safety, something has to be done. When combined with a loss of “voice” at lower levels in the organization, it can be lethal. In the view of some observers, that’s what happened recently at Boeing. The Boeing example A whistleblower complaint blamed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

choose one. But if I have to choose one, I would say I enjoyed the case on Nissan Motor, the auto manufacturer that had been turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how revealing customers to employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Olmsted Teisberg. Key Learnings 1. The U.S. health care system is a paradox in that it has competition yet fails to deliver improving value. Competition has been shown to be an incredibly powerful force in driving increased quality and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 08 Jul 2015
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Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

recognized Robert E. Downing's advice that we may need to define work before asking the question. For knowledge workers, "it is very difficult to determine when the workers are actually working Maybe we shouldn't be asking about hours (quantity) but instead... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 02 Dec 2015
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What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

job Let the numbers fall where they may. You may find that people achieving their dreams has no link with gender equality.” For others, “having the best people doing the job” may have been seen as having a subjective quality to it, based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/History/ The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

competitors. Are there limits to boundaryless behavior? If carried too far, can it result in loss of control over the quality of goods and services delivered by the supply chain? Can reliance on others for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

providing quality care and access while controlling costs. Many businesses are also incorporating employee-centered values and socially responsible values into their core missions; these can appeal strongly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

retail outlets, such that stores with membership fees are more popular even when they offer the same goods at the same prices as stores without fees. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-029.pdf Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

Roche and Boudou considered several explanations for their findings: whether the technology driving the startup was too new or not good enough, and whether the founders took too central a role in controlling or managing the company.... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
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