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  • 1995
  • Article

Managing Distrust: The Hidden Cost of Downsizing

By: D. Sull and N. Nohria
Keywords: Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Cost; Trust
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  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

were paralyzed by fear of a Chinese takeover of the world. Google didn't exactly leave China or prevail in the face-off over government-banned content. The BP oil spill debacle in the U.S. Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't stop View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

botsourcing for jobs that do require emotion if robots appear to convey more emotion; and (4) people prefer to outsource cognition-oriented versus emotion-oriented jobs to other humans who are perceived as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

are prone to leave or overlook U.S. locations because they ignore many hidden costs associated with offshoring and do not consider how to enhance the economic potential of U.S. locations. Although both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

than they had expected with higher-than-anticipated costs, a monopolistic distribution network, strong competitors, a weak partner ecosystem, and a market that was unresponsive to tariff cuts. In early 2012, a year View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2005
  • Article

Reducing Slack: The Performance Consequences of Downsizing by Large Industrial Firms, 1977-93

By: E. Geoffrey Love and Nitin Nohria
Keywords: Business Ventures; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Performance; Outcome or Result
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  • 08 Jan 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

agreed: "The main reason for the rising inequality is that Free Trade has encouraged/required manufacturing to be offshored and outsourced If we replaced the Free Trade... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • April 11, 2010
  • Article

Solving Jobs Crisis Won't Be a Quick Fix

By: William W. George
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Problems and Challenges
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  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

http://hbr.org/product/decision-making-at-the-top-the-all-star-sports-ebusiness-division/an/314010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-027 Cisco Systems and Offshore Cash No abstract available. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

collection of startup aerospace engineering companies that were intent on disrupting the American space sector with new technologies, management approaches, and competitive pressure. NASA hoped to leverage New Space to View Details
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

costs decrease and as the benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how different licensing arrangements affect the relation between the variance of the returns to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

of the current CEO, Anders Eldrup, the company had become an energy group, present in all steps of the gas and oil value chain and particular, in the EU market leader in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

formal models and theory can account for important aspects of software design evolution in large-scale systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-081.pdf From Outsourcing to Global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

  Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2006
  • Case

Kroger Union Negotiations

By: Dennis A. Yao
A stylized version of the negotiations between Kroger Company and its local unions during the mid-1980s. Management faces a sequence of individual negotiations with local unions during a time of weak economic performance when management is seriously considering... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Wages; Management; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics
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  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

product categories, or stores. Some are even changing long-held attitudes toward consumption. To many folks, filling the home with more stuff or keeping up with the Joneses is no longer appealing. As a result, the degree of uncertainty in business View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch

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