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- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
safety and efficiency, fixing operational failures can yield benefits for both. Thus, prioritizing improvement of work systems in general, rather than focusing more narrowly on specific clinical conditions, can increase safety and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
market. Efficient companies should be the ones that maintain their capacity, and the inefficient ones should shrink or be sold. The same principle is involved in new industries. Instead of subsidizing new companies, government should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of industrial clusters; we confirm these predictions using variations across patent technology clusters. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
see whichever physician is on duty. The best family doctors often aren’t accepting new patients. Health care is a local business, travel is global. Hotel consumers have vast numbers of options and no hotel is permanently closed to new customers; the View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
drew attention to the resource allocation process (RAP) with his seminal study of four organizations in 1970. He concluded that a bottom-up process of idea generation begun by operational managers and shaped by middle management works... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
Market for Time: Fairness and Efficiency in Waiting Lines." In the following e-mail Q&A, Oberholzer-Gee discusses the research and what it might mean for companies who might want to, in fact, create a market for time. Sean... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are more involved in "obligatory" and value creating and control functions than in operational activities; there are no systematic differences in the determinants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis provides new evidence on how the diversification discount and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
valuation estimates to examine whether analysts reliably assess the risk surrounding a firm's fundamental value. We find that the spread in analysts' state-side contingent valuations captures the riskiness of operations and predicts the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
for admitting students and promoting faculty are selfish, replicating themselves faithfully even at the expense of the institution's welfare. A university cannot be made more efficient by simply cutting its View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
By: Buell, Ryan W. Abstract—Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
intelligent software for efficient order delivery, and a customer friendly online interface. Ocado's customer base had expanded beyond the wealthy to include middle-income consumers; even with a delivery charge, grocery shopping through... View Details
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Sealed Air China (TN)
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for [308051]. View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
line. Key concepts include: In multisided markets, some customers contribute to a company's bottom line directly while others contribute indirect benefits, which are more difficult to calculate. Businesses must be able to assess the value of these "free"... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
analysis highlights the difference between operating core units designed for efficiency and market-facing units designed for responsiveness. We introduce key concepts that are essential to the effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
price. ©iStock.com/Rawpixel Ltd Examples of PWYW pricing abound in all industries: Radiohead's self-released its In Rainbows album with "name your price" downloads; the Dallas Theater Center holds "Pay-What-You-Can" nights to draw in new patrons;... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
would, therefore, help to increase economic efficiency simply by improving the flow of economic information. This view, in which government agencies could promote economic stability by providing forecasts, was a far cry from the type of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
effective in the sense that advertisers can reach great scale and do precision targeting. The challenge is to discern consumers' intent. "Search is unbelievably efficient because you look at a little query box. You can tell exactly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace