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- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
to win. Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2211700 Working PapersDelegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors:McElheran, Kristina Abstract Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
competing accountability demands. This involves deciding both to whom and for what they owe accountability. This chapter provides an overview of common dilemmas of nonprofit accountability, lays out tradeoffs inherent in a range of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
measurement-error variances). We then compare five classes of ERPs nominated in recent studies to demonstrate how researchers can easily implement our two-dimensional evaluative framework. Our empirical analyses document a tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
delivery around specific categories of disease. It provides an opportunity to evaluate BWH's approach to integration along all of these dimensions and to identify the nature of the tradeoffs that hospitals—specifically, academic medical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
opportunities: private signals that can be distorted by managers, and public signals that are undistorted but noisy. Headquarters faces a tradeoff between the cost of attaining an accurate private signal and the value of the information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
standpoints—layoffs; cost-cutting to the point where you know you're going to stretch your work force very, very thin; quality tradeoffs that may mean that you're not going to be delivering on what you say, and there may even be a safety... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
to weigh the political ramifications as he considered which initiative to pursue. He knew that despite his various accomplishments, this choice would likely impact his legacy as governor. As he weighed the decision, Daniels began to jot down notes about the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
attempts at managing these ”strategic paradoxes” fail because they’re not managed carefully and consistently. (It’s easy to write a great purpose statement or to dream up a new business model but way more difficult to follow through when it’s time to make actual View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest how ambidexterity acts as a dynamic capability. We suggest that efficiency and innovation need not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
been priorities in national initiatives. Conclusions. Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging frontline staff experiences with work systems to identify and remove operational failures. In contrast to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of decision making. I develop hypotheses about this tradeoff and test the hypotheses on a unique dataset of 6,130 American startups. I find that startups in which the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
tradeoffs that people make between having more time or having more money, and the extent to which people focus on each resource can have a significant impact on happiness. Considering subjective well-being (or “happiness”) as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
many tradeoffs Barge must make in balancing the benefits of the former organization with those of the new structure to achieve the firm's strategic goal of becoming more customer-solutions oriented. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
and innovation need not be strategic tradeoffs and highlight the substantive role of senior teams in building dynamic capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-088WP.pdf Organizational Designs and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
approach enables more resources to be spent on resolving problems because prioritization receives less attention. To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not been empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne