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  • 30 Nov 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Sabrin Beg, University of Delaware

  • Summer 2016
  • Article

Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Balance and Stability; Operations; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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  • 18 Sep 2021
  • News

Celebrating AI-Infused Talent Management at the Eightfold Conference

  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?

The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details

  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

improving public education. The book is titled Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. According to the authors, "Our goal in writing this book was to dig beneath the sorts of surface... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • January 1989 (Revised February 1993)
  • Case

Warner Cable (A)

The new general manager of Warner Cable's Medford, Massachusetts complex faces a number of turnaround challenges in 1985, including service deficiencies, customer complaints, high turnover, and low employee morale. By 1988 he has turned the situation around, but some... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Because workers focus too narrowly on how to achieve those objectives, rather than looking beyond the scope of their role to improve the business more broadly. Gallani conducted the study—which was published in the journal Contemporary... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Behavioral Operations

Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Gary P. Pisano
  • February 2021
  • Article

A Dynamic Theory of Multiple Borrowing

By: Daniel Green and Ernest Liu
Multiple borrowing—a borrower obtains overlapping loans from multiple lenders—is a common phenomenon in many credit markets. We build a highly tractable, dynamic model of multiple borrowing and show that, because overlapping creditors may impose default externalities... View Details
Keywords: Commitment; Multiple Borrowing; Common Agency; Misallocation; Microfinance; Investment; Mathematical Methods
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  • January 2014
  • Supplement

Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (C)

By: Richard Hamermesh and Lauren Barley
On September 11, 2013, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied St. Jude's request to rehear an appeal on the "double patenting" ruling for the '439 patent. Further, it removed the injunction threat that was hanging over the... View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices; Vascular Closure Device; Patent Litigation; Patenting; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Biotech; Technological Innovation; Patents; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 26 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

shock-absorbing rubber in astronaut helmets. Kate Sweeney has always been fascinated by how space technology can be used to improve people’s lives back on Earth. Sweeney, who is about to complete her M.S./M.B.A., offered jointly by the... View Details
  • 1985
  • Working Paper

Sequential Innovation and Market Structure

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
This paper concerns the introduction of a sequence of new, higher-quality durable products in a market in which there already exists a lower-quality substitute. The product has the further attribute that a real resource cost is incurred at the time a higher-quality... View Details
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    Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

    The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to... View Details
    • 27 Nov 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

    suggestions for how to improve them. Typical of these were Thad Juszczak's recommendation that "The process of performance feedback should be continuous." Continuous feedback is an antidote to Hany Derias' concern that "the... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • February 1998 (Revised June 2000)
    • Case

    Delamere Vineyard

    Delamere Vineyard is a small, integrated winemaking business in Tasmania, specializing in pinot noir (red) and chardonnay (white) wines. Richard Richardson, Delamere's owner and winemaker, manages and operates the vineyard and winery largely alone. His products have... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Quality; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia
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    • 26 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

    that affect groups of people engaged in collaborative product design affect groups of people engaged in the collaborative production and delivery of goods and services. As with complex technical systems,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun
    We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Conservation; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 03 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

    Must-have features of yesterday are today's can-live-withouts. Trusted brands are especially valued and they can still launch new products successfully, but interest in new brands and new categories fades. Conspicuous consumption becomes... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 04 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

    according to new research. The researchers found that the students facing temptation were more apt to make mistakes and were less productive By banning web surfing, employers are essentially asking their workers to resist temptation until... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding