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- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on investment and output throughout the period but no significant impact on employment during the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
particular, we let the upstream firm's marginal cost be private information, unknown to the downstream firms. The previous literature has argued that vertical integration is harmful because it allows an upstream monopolist to limit output... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
assistant bot, in beta release, to facilitate your successful completion of the course. 5-6 hrs Module 1 Explore the characteristics of an AI-powered firm, its impact on business and operating models, and the components and outputs of the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
really a misnomer to call planning strategic,” he says. Rather, most planning is an annual affair linked to the budget process, routinely taking four or five months to complete. “But sales must respond customer by customer in market time, not internal planning time.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services
And other, unforeseen uses. Scratch spaces on compute clusters are usually high-performant (e.g. Lustre or similar) and very large. Typical usage scenarios for scratch storage are: Working space for running jobs (temporary files, checkpoint data, etc.) High performance... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
infusions (say, from the IMF) may actually backfire because they eventually lead to longer life expectancy, further population growth, greater consumption of output produced by the investment, and a return to the previous condition of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
that, “‘imposters’ could well bring in the balancing element in the teams of today where more people are the exact opposite in terms of work output to ‘talk’ ratio!” Cathy Lee speculated about whether imposters “are more loyal.” A comment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
power of leadership through example, persuasion, and culture. Leadership is a complicated phenomenon that is not easily broken down through just one lens; it’s an accumulation of these perspectives, which is what we’re trying to get at. What were some of the tangible... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
popular notion of management by walking around, management by standing still may offer untapped value: installing privacy curtains around several production lines improved defect-free output by 10 percent, a result he terms the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
contingent reserves, and reserve dependent output costs. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-010.pdf Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
who can someday support their parents. When investment from outside does occur, it may extend life expectancy, thereby increasing population until it consumes the higher level of output produced by the investment, restoring the previous... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches the outputs of these two production systems. The company has also built extensive expertise in accessing the many mortgage and funding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
power plants were financed with long-term fixed price contracts for both inputs (gas supply) and outputs (and electricity purchase). More recently, "merchant plants" were financed without the benefit of long-term contracts,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
outputs based on factors such as measurability, cost, understanding of cause and effect, and desired levels of innovation. We discuss the technical feasibility of monitoring and measurement, the cost of information, and the effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
development. We then develop a contingency framework for measuring results, suggesting that some organizations should measure long-term impacts, while others should focus on shorter-term outputs and outcomes. In closing, we discuss the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne