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  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

competition can impede the reputational mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom line. Government Technology... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

testosterone. Taken together, all but one conceptual replication has demonstrated support for the embodied effects of expansive nonverbal postures. However, multiple experiments have found that the postural effects appear to be bounded by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises questions of growth, including the challenges of replicating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

replicate CIMIT at other locations around the globe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608036 Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

benefit from revealing unit cost information to consumers. A natural field experiment conducted with an online retailer suggests that cost transparency boosts sales. Six subsequent controlled lab experiments replicate this basic effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

flexible childcare options, would be well-received by U.S. consumers and help it stand out from the existing, more-standardized options. The question now is how, and how fast, to grow. Should it just replicate the exact model it has... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

over time. Two lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases due to differences in perceptions of expertise drive the effect. Our research contributes not only to operations research, but also to the practice of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

parts order comes through, so they have the part ready to ship as soon as the order is placed. 86 Here too, GM was attempting to replicate the new business models pioneered by companies like Dell and Cisco. However, GM was not alone in... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

almost all other products and services. This was a match of ambition with capability that can be replicated in other fast growing, semi-informal cities in the developing world. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown

imagined out of India hadn’t happened before. It was assumed that, you know, we are, as a set of engineers, very good at replicating things in a fairly efficient manner—producing code in a very efficient manner—and scaling the computation... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

laboratory replication of these findings, showing that unexpected breaks lead to increased performance when they allow people to maintain attention on the focal task. Our results suggest that the characteristics of a break can lead the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Thus researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust patterns in data, allowing the researcher to engage in inductive or abductive theory building. ML’s strengths include View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

positively related to attitudes of openness to others. In a third study, I conducted an interpersonal dyadic negotiation experiment with business school students and found that, as predicted, these effects replicated and extended to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

Voice of Experience A lot of people think that dot-coms in Asia are just taking U.S. technology and replicating the same business models. That may have been a valid criticism in the past, but things are really changing.” The speaker is... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

philanthropy in the creation of high-performing schools, which they have been able to replicate with high degrees of fidelity." Cutting Losses Unfettered by oversight from a local school board, most charters are authorized by state boards... View Details
Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan

The servers were wearing masks, we had disposable menus, and there were protocols for coming into the restaurant. Sitting in the restaurant with friends and having food that you can’t replicate at home—I don’t care how good you are at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions tend to View Details
Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

operations. Through its financial incentives, personal and professional development initiatives, and worker-appreciation programs, NatureSweet had cultivated a truly unique, uplifting workplace culture in its Mexico operations. Ambelang aspired to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

provider. Yet to compete against Baidu and other Chinese Internet giants in the long run, Qihoo needed to find a way to replicate its PC market success in the mobile market. How could Qihoo continue to evolve its search engine business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne