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  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

Imagine an organization made up of a variety of three-dimensional shapes. Rectangular blocks represent the functions: manufacturing, R&D, and sales and marketing. The spheres are regional offices. Pyramids represent product groups—one... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54559 Harvard Business School Case 118-016 Data Science at Target Paritosh Desai joined Target.com in 2013 as VP of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Testing to explore how the retailer could use its relatively small... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

case presents the predicament of a company trying to do right by its customers and its employees as the economic crisis of 2008 hits home. Fifteen years earlier, this Spanish supermarket chain had adopted its own version of total quality management, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction, and an increase in the extent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Risk Authors: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we explore the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

PeopleImages In 2012, federal court jurors listened as Ani Chopourian described the sexual harassment she endured as a cardiac surgery physician assistant at a Sacramento hospital. One surgeon greeted her each morning with “I’m horny” and slapped her bottom. Another... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

hard about taxes in a new way. No policymaker has called to ask for the details of the optimal height tax, though! We hope that businesspeople and the public will think more deeply about taxes once they hear about our idea. Most people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

exchange with auto parts suppliers. This system, initially called TradeXchange, was designed to bring suppliers online so that GM can purchase supplies. For a fee, suppliers were to use TradeXchange to "reduce their costs and pass on... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

the "Big Owe." It took that city 30 years to repay the municipal debt—$1.5 billion in 1976 dollars, or more than $6 billion today. Sometimes "building new urban infrastructure" is a justification for hosting the Games, but this is more of a View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

short, "The economic crisis in which the country now finds itself reflects not the failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system." Nonetheless, the panel's two... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and services. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

inadvertently omitted from social contract negotiations. For example, in 1988, Komatsu, Japan's leader in earth-moving construction equipment, and U.S. conglomerate Dresser Industries combined their North American engineering, manufacturing, and marketing efforts to... View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

or template, which we call a "strategy map," that complements the Balanced Scorecard with a simple, succinct visualization of the hypotheses and interrelationships that are at the heart of strategy.4 (See Figure 2-2.) The... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles, and result in improved allocation of resources through the use of big data, thereby increasing sales productivity. Like many other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

and where the host does not punish symbiont misbehavior. Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations Authors:Frank V. Cespedes Publication:In Business to Business Marketing Handbook. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, forthcoming... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

evolved and adapted in order to meet new business challenges. This ability—to rapidly update, improve, remove, replace, and reimagine the software applications that underpin a firm’s competitive position—is at the heart of what has been View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

performance? Should a company choose to be in the sales prevention business? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/619018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-111 Gilead Mexico With a breakthrough cure for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Cases & Course MaterialsEmotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count Elie Ofek, Jason Riis, and Paul HamiltonHarvard Business School Case 510-050 Emotiv is getting ready to launch its innovative brain-computer interfacing (BCI) technology. The company has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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