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  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

support for complex resource reprioritization efforts. Keywords: Framing ; Stakeholder Management ; Capabilities ; Transformation ; Leading Change ; Crisis Management ; Resource View Details
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

now possible through an approach that we call time-driven ABC, which we have successfully helped more than 100 client companies implement, including those described in this article. In the revised approach, managers directly estimate the View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

  Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Recruitment (31) Refugees (4) Relationships (152) Religion (5) Renewable Energy (7) Reputation (14) Research and Development (59) Research (107) Resignation and Termination (10) Resource Allocation (11)... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

another, it will be necessary to recentralize control over the resource allocation process, moving it out of strategic business units (SBUs). It raises questions about the relevancy of SBUs as opposed to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • March 2022 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Pakistan Rising: Bazaar's Growth Story (A)

By: Paul A. Gompers and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2021 as Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, co-founders of Bazaar technologies (Bazaar), the Pakistani high growth B2B e-commerce marketplace, are contemplating whether the year-and-a half old startup should also venture into offering financing to... View Details
Keywords: B2B; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Pakistan
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  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

members focus on corporate environmental strategy, operations and reporting; sustainable cities and infrastructure; the role of government and environmental policy; clean energy generation and demand-side energy efficiency; and the effective management of natural View Details
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

these streams and offers human resource management researchers and professionals insights and approaches for helping diverse teams tackle complex problems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional performance and for learning activities. What has changed and what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

with engineering on custom applications, and up-selling or cross-selling additional services. Allocation of sales talent should change. Focus on behaviors in selection. In many firms, this means upgrading assessment skills. Managers are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

slavery. Rather, innovation was, in a sense, a byproduct of bondage. The immense control of planters over their slaves enabled the development of management "controls." Slaves became the subjects of management experiments, their labor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

practical applicability of others. “The FBI division-level strategic plans are useful as management tools, but they are not uniformly threat-based nor do they align with a needed corporate strategic plan for the Bureau that would allocate... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

Group, formed in 1945 as a builder of utility vehicles and now a conglomerate spanning a number of industries, helps educate 90,000 girls in schools each year. “That's a very important thing,” says Jones, “that a company can allocate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and... View Details
  • Web

Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

Project , Command , Esub Tue Dec 31 16:56:14: Submitted from host , to Queue , CWD , Output File , Error File , Notify when job begins/ends, 8 Task(s), Requested Resources , memory/swap limit enforced per-job/per-host; Tue Dec 31... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

v4 space from others. It's unlikely that other networks would return their space for free—why would they? But if the price is right, they may be willing to transfer the space to someone who needs it more. So the core benefit is allocative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • February 2025
  • Article

Variation in Batch Ordering of Imaging Tests in the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery

By: Jacob C. Jameson, Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman and Nicole Hodgson
Objectives: To examine heterogeneity in physician batch ordering practices and measure the impact of a physician's tendency to batch order imaging tests on patient outcomes and resource utilization.
Study Setting and Design: In this retrospective study, we used... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Operations Management; Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Outcome or Result; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; United States
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  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

School Professor Sumantra Ghoshal questioned whether shareholders are even “owners” in the common sense of that term. As he put it, “If the value creation is achieved by combining the resources of both employees and shareholders, why... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett