Speed Of Adjustment - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

Keywords: by David F. Drake

22 May 2007
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The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel

August 1988
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Credibility, Real Interest Rates, and the Optimal Speed of Trade Liberalization

By: K. A. Froot

Keywords: International Trade; Trade Policy; Trade; Policy; Interest Rates

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May–June 2021
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Getting Up to Speed in Your Sales Efforts

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Zoran Latinovic

In a study before the pandemic, Pricewaterhouse Coopers found that companies had made little progress in the previous decade in speeding up their cash-conversion cycle, as the cash crunch generated by the pandemic painfully demonstrated. In most firms, sales velocity... View Details

Keywords: Sales Velocity; Opportunity Selection; Deal Size; Win Rate; Sales; Management; Cash Flow

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September 2006
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The Speed of Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation

By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth

In an experiment, players ability to learn to cooperate in the repeated prisoners dilemma was substantially diminished when the payoffs were noisy, even though players could monitor one anothers past actions perfectly. In contrast, in one-time play against a succession... View Details

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09 Aug 2010
News

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

This HBS working paper focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes data from 75 field studies to illustrate how managers adjust span of accountability and span of control to... View Details

2013
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Adjusting National Accounting for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

By: Mark Egan, Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson

Many national accounts of economic output and prosperity, such as gross domestic product (GDP) or net domestic product (NDP), offer an incomplete picture by ignoring, for example, the value of leisure, home production, and the value of health. Previous discussed... View Details

Keywords: Health; Valuation; Accounting; United States

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1995
Other Unpublished Work

State Poverty Rates Adjusted by Variations in Costs of Living Across States

By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar

Keywords: Wealth and Poverty

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September 1992
Case

Star Cablevision Group (B): Adjusting to a Stock Market Correction

By: William A. Sahlman

Second case in a series of six cases. This case describes the company as it adjusts to a stock market correction. View Details

Keywords: Financial Markets

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits The access to the tea and silk district will enable us to be sure that we can produce at fair prices; and the navigation of the Yangtze and other rivers will make steam very important. — John Heard to... View Details

January 2025
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A Winning Strategy (B): Innovation in Olympic Speed Skating

By: Rebecca Karp, Maria Roche, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Tom Quinn

This case describes the aftermath of decisions made by two innovators in the Olympic sport of speed skating: the U.S. Men’s team, which devised a new approach to the team pursuit event; and Nils van der Poel, a Swedish skater who created a new training plan that defied... View Details

Keywords: Sports; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Improvement; Sports Industry; United States; Sweden; Netherlands; Norway

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08 Feb 2012
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New money fund rules could speed consolidation

2007
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The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Victor Calanog

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18 Feb 2016
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Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process

clinical trials process. Today, it takes at least 10 years and billions of dollars for one FDA-approved drug to move from research labs to medicine cabinets. Precision medicine will bring faster innovation, targeted medicine, and better... View Details

January 2025
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A Winning Strategy (A): Innovation in Olympic Speed Skating

By: Rebecca Karp, Maria Roche, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Tom Quinn

This case describes two innovators in the Olympic sport of speed skating: the U.S. Men’s team, which devised a new approach to the team pursuit event following their disappointing performance in the 2018 Winter Olympics; and Nils van der Poel, a Swedish skater who... View Details

Keywords: Sports; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Knowledge Sharing; Sports Industry; United States; Sweden; Netherlands; Norway

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22 Jan 2013
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From Inside Out, Speed Your Company's Social Transformation

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Variance-Minimizing Monetary Policies with Lagged Price Adjustment and Rational Expectations

By: Jerry R. Green and Seppo Honkapohja

This paper considers a macroeconomic model with rational expectations in which prices are incompletely flexible. Markets therefore fail to clear. In such a model monetary policy is not neutral. The variance of real and nominal quantities and interest rates is sensitive... View Details

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