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  • 2009
  • Report

Clusters, Cluster Policy, and Swedish Competitiveness

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Proximity enables firms to take advantage of knowledge spill-overs and exploit supplierdemand linkages with other entities engaged in related activities. Cluster strength thus seems to be one of the important determinants of prosperity differences across geographies.... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Sweden
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    Operational Transparency

    Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully understand and appreciate the work going on behind the... View Details

      Sandra J. Sucher

      Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

      Keywords: apparel; banking; brokerage; clothing; fashion; financial services; furniture; hotels ＆ motels; retail financial services; retailing; service industry
      • Research Summary

      Managing sustainability in supply chains

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      I am examining codes of conduct, management process standards, and government voluntary programs that address environmental and labor issues, seeking to understand what enables some of these programs to actually deliver on their promise of distinguishing organizations... View Details
      Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Strategy; Regulation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Construction Industry; United States; California
      • November 2020 (Revised February 2022)
      • Case

      CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals

      By: Robert S. Huckman, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
      Soon after closing the 2019 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health to create CommonSpirit Health, Lloyd Dean and Kevin Lofton-–jointly appointed to the role of CEO—must make several operational and strategic decisions related to the integration... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Hospital; Merger; Merger Integration; Hospital Mergers; Health Information Technology; CEOs; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance; Information Technology; Health Industry; United States
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      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      When Should Public Programs Be Privately Administered? Theory and Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

      By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton and Adi Sunderam
      What happens when public resources are allocated by private companies whose objectives may be imperfectly aligned with policy goals? We study this question in the context of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which relied on private banks to disburse aid to small... View Details
      Keywords: Paycheck Protection Program; Targeting; Impact; Entrepreneurship; Health Pandemics; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; United States
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      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Averaging Probability Forecasts: Back to the Future

      By: Robert L. Winkler, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. and Victor Richmond R. Jose
      The use and aggregation of probability forecasts in practice is on the rise. In this position piece, we explore some recent, and not so recent, developments concerning the use of probability forecasts in decision-making. Despite these advances, challenges still exist.... View Details
      Keywords: Probability Forecast; Forecast Combination; Forecast Evaluation; Decision Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Making; Analysis
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      • April 2012
      • Article

      The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies

      By: Francois Brochet, Seunghan Nam and Joshua Ronen
      We revisit the role of the cash and accrual components of accounting earnings in predicting future cash flows using out-of-sample predictions and market value of equity as a proxy for all future cash flows. We find that, on average, accruals improve upon current cash... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Value; Equity; Markets; Cash Flow; Information Management; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Stocks
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      • 10 May 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

      disciplines most often found in business schools. We have proposed that innovation in organizations be conceived of as a process of co-design: creative abrasion, creative agility, and integrated problem solving. We know much about the... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
      • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 20 Mar 2019
      • HBS Online

      HBS Online Management Essentials

      Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
      • 17 May 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

      responsible activities is not what companies do best and, according to critics, is thus a poor allocation of corporate resources. The third criticism has to do with due process and democratic institutions. Even laudable and noble actions... View Details
      Keywords: by Manda Salls
      • Research Summary

      THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

      Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

      • 23 Oct 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: October 23, 2007

      to improve their innovation process and then take the appropriate measures to address any deficiencies. Only then can they improve their capacity to innovate in ways that make... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2010
      • Article

      Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study

      Background: Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular approach to improving health care quality, and the US government will soon implement pay-for-performance in hospitals nationwide. Yet hospital capacity to perform (and improve performance) likely depends on... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance; Health Industry; United States
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      • July 2010
      • Case

      Mekong Capital: Building a Culture of Leadership in Vietnam

      By: Christopher Marquis, Vinay Ganti, Kevin Smith and Doug Guthrie
      Mekong Capital, a private equity firm specializing in investing in Vietnam, had grown dramatically since its inception in 2002 and faced numerous organizational issues in 2007. There was a shortage of qualified middle managers, an overall lack of leadership, and a... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Financial Services Industry
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      • 10 Apr 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

      Companies that outsource merely to shuffle off commodity work to save costs might be missing important opportunities to work with vendors and significantly improve the final product. "When it comes to the outsourcing of many complex... View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
      • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 16 Oct 2019
      • HBS Online

      HBS Online Management Essentials

      Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: October 16, 2019 - December 11, 2019 View Details
      • 01 Mar 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Hurry Up and Wait: Differential Impacts of Congestion, Bottleneck Pressure, and Predictability on Patient Length of Stay

      Keywords: by Jaeker Berry Jillian & Anita L. Tucker; Health
      • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 07 Aug 2019
      • HBS Online

      HBS Online Management Essentials

      Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: August 7, 2019 - October 2, 2019 View Details
      • 30 Aug 2016
      • First Look

      August 30, 2016

      conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance; however, it may lead to lower future performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a quota-bonus plan and a punitive-bonus... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel