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- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
approach, you can get more efficiency out of the system and still have a nice balance of fairness when you have two conflicting programs in the system." According to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, the View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
Editor's note: Please see related story, Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society. Although companies are increasingly reporting on their corporate sustainability responsibility (CSR) performance, there has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
according to the research. One reason might be that costs are lower for companies that moved production offshore, and the resulting, more efficient firms developed higher-skilled service work, like computer... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
potential reason that voters and political parties can’t even agree on which laws they should target, and whether to loosen or tighten them,” says Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
Fannie and Freddie, which will expose the taxpayer to considerable risk in housing downturns. Given that guarantees have small benefits during normal times, these costs are probably not worth bearing. View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the evolution and impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
team-theory predictions; however, certain findings, such as a negative correlation between delegation and firm size, call for a consideration of agency costs as well. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
would still be true in spite of the worst case scenario occurring (e.g., xyz lives impacted in abc way, xyz skills, networks and experiences acquired, and consequently an... View Details
- October 1993 (Revised February 1995)
- Case
MCI Vision (A) (Condensed)
Concerns the development, introduction, and first-year sales performance of Vision, a telecommunications service aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. Introduced in 1990, Vision surpassed goals in that year, but was significantly below target in the first... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Goals and Objectives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Product; Sales; Competitive Strategy; Valuation
Cespedes, Frank V. "MCI Vision (A) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 594-057, October 1993. (Revised February 1995.)
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
whom the order of information revelation does not influence subsequent behavior. The effect was robust across settings with and without forgone payoffs and when the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
like we got X donations, and we took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
have focused on overconfidence and other background characteristics. Although this individually and psychologically oriented research has pointed to some interesting correlations, we argue that unfortunate... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- July – August 2011
- Article
The Paradox of Samsung's Rise
By: Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee
Twenty years ago, few people would have predicted that Samsung could transform itself from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research and Development; Marketing; Business Processes; Brands and Branding; System; Globalized Markets and Industries; Transformation; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Production; Quality; China; India; Turkey
Khanna, Tarun, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee. "The Paradox of Samsung's Rise." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2011): 142–147.
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
fact, Harvard University research suggests that reopening restaurants last spring, shortly after the pandemic’s first wave, may have led some people to assume that eating out was safe—despite the now-documented links between indoor dining View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
new distribution methods, rising costs of production in China, and changing customer behavior. The company lacked a clear strategy and suffered from organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the former and disapprove of action in the latter, despite identical consequences. The difference is often explained in terms of the intention principle—whether the consequences are intended or incidental.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
of intellectual property theft by foreign competitors grows and secrecy becomes a more attractive strategy for firms to protect and capitalize on their innovations, this question is becoming increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
personally. My own view is that the economic consequences of our present health care system are disastrous and grievously injure the economy. It's not getting any better, and... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace