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  • 28 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 28

high-quality products at reasonable prices, and runs a highly popular advertising campaign that spoofs current events. It offers its farmers 80% of the consumer's dollar for milk, compared with 35%–40% typical in some Western markets. Amul's cooperative dairy model has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

(b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

in-person learning. We know the experience we offer in on-campus programs—where participants get away from their work/home environment, reside together in living groups, share meals and social activities, and have intensely fruitful one-on-one discussions with peers... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

replicate the effects across a bunch of different domains ranging from Web service to vacations to cameras. Q: What is your practical advice to managers to avoid overchoice? A: There are a couple of different ways to deal with overchoice.... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

School Case 112-096 In June 2010, Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services operator, acquired the African assets of Bahrain-based Zain Telecom for $10.7 billion-the largest ever cross-border deal in emerging markets. Bharti's executives envisioned that they would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

for its work in HIV/AIDS, where its innovative medicines now accounted for 60% of all patients on anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines. Much of this was accomplished through generic licensing, which brought a $10,000/year treatment regimen down to $100! Should the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. It is a state of mind exemplified by an appetite for risk-taking, a bold spirit of adventure, and an... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

show that it improves short-term productivity. However, although it improves performance in the short-term, we find that an overreliance on this task selection strategy hurts performance—as measured both by speed and revenue—in the long run. We then turn to the lab to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

as we replicate analyses like this one in a variety of different settings, we will establish benchmarks that can be used to compare one organization with another. Q: What are you working on now? A: A variety of extensions of this project.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

collaborate with on this effort? Can this model be replicated at scale across the country? Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218110-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-079 Membership Rewards® from American Express... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

adversarial activities of insurers, practitioners, hospitals, etc. can be integrated in new ways that actually support individuals seeking care, while wringing out the massive replication of administrative effort across these enterprises.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

relative to other U.S. technologies. Since the signaling component of a World's Fair prize was replicated through publication of an invention in the Scientific American, our results suggest that publicity for promising research fields is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 05 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

hypothesis in a lab setting that involved recalling the Ten Commandments, and then performed a similar ethical field study at an insurance company, where they successfully replicated the findings they saw in the lab. "This was nice, since... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Robert Goodwin

months, totally immersed in a humanitarian project in someplace like Africa or India, it engages you in ways that are difficult to replicate when you come back to a corporate context. That can make reentry pretty challenging for everyone... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

replicated by other organizations. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413118-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-049 Germany's Green Energy Revolution No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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