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  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details
  • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
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  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

illustrate the process and power of market design through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

to innovators that have invented and disseminated new battery chemistries, so many projects demonstrate extreme promise for a wealthier, healthier future India. Our research focus area was decarbonizing steel production, a notoriously difficult sector to decarbonize... View Details
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making settings in which, for example, subordinates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Galinsky Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

predominantly male working environments of the factory floor and management offices, as well as her family challenges in a dual-career household. At the end of each chapter are “Pearls from Pat,” which reinforce the effective strategies she’s discovered along the way.... View Details
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12819 Do you Need a New Product-Development Strategy? Authors:Alan MacCormack, W. Crandall, P. Toft, and P. Henderson Publication:Research Technology Management 55, no. 1 (January-February 2012) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

the market can develop. You've got to make sure you can get these guys to an exit, first, second or third," Mullen said. "And a good exit," added Sahlman. "I feel like it's a pretty natural process to find several in a... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government policies that will foster sustainability transitions and address... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup

The company aims to transform health food with a lesser known super-seed (Sacha Inchi), which has a superior nutritional profile compared to most conventional nuts and seeds. The mission was to do this not just through its products, but... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Comfort Zone

and Brazil. It’s not a stretch to understand why this is the case: If airports can reduce processing time through security and reduce anxiety, they will be increasing leisure time inside the airport—and commercial revenues. “But a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Streamlining the Supermarket

order-fulfillment process at Amazon, which acquired the company for $775 million in 2012. Aguerrevere, who had founded a small-format grocery store chain in his native Venezuela, discussed the talk with Max Pedró (MBA 2002), his close... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

(shortest expected processing time). Moreover, they exercise more discretion as they accumulate experience. Exploiting random assignment of tasks to doctors’ queues, instrumental variable models reveal that these deviations erode... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

on track. Underpinning his advice with research and illustrating it with stories from others’ successes, Barnett lays out practical, step-by-step processes to help readers realize their goals. Money, Murder, and Madness: A Banking Life by... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining