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- March 2018 (Revised March 2019)
- Technical Note
Control or Flexibility? Structured Empowerment Offers Both — Lessons from Retail & Service Chains
By: Tatiana Sandino
This note explains how several retail and service organizations use a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make... View Details
- 15 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?
- 2007
- Working Paper
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services
By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Targeting, Personalization, and Engagement in an Agricultural Advisory Service
By: Susan Athey, Shawn Cole, Shanjukta Nath and Jessica Zhu
ICT is increasingly used to deliver customized information in developing countries. We
examine whether individually targeting the timing of automated voice calls meaningfully
increases engagement in an agricultural advisory service. We define, estimate, and... View Details
- Web
Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
and help firms and households save and manage risk. These financial services are provided in an array of organizations and structures – from fintech startups to private credit funds to multi-trillion-dollar... View Details
- Web
Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services
Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows 1. STATA Members of the Harvard Business School community can access the WRDS platform via Stata. Stata connects to WRDS through ODBC, a standard... View Details
- Web
HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services
result in a loss of data. As you work, please regularly check your space usage. To check the amount of space you are currently using in a project directory enter this command in an SSH (or ‘terminal’)... View Details
- 15 May 2013
- News
Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green
- 2021
- Working Paper
Multiple Team Membership, Turnover, and On-Time Delivery: Evidence from Construction Services
By: Hise O. Gibson, Bradely R. Staats and Ananth Raman
Firms who want to compete in dynamic markets are finding that they must build more agile operations to ensure success. One way for a firm to increase organizational agility is to allocate employees to multiple project teams, simultaneously—a practice known as multiple... View Details
- March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Supplement
Growing Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2008) (C)
By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2005 and 2008. Having dismantled its long-standing service-line-oriented structure, JLL created two interdependent groups: Accounts and Markets. Accounts housed... View Details
- July – August 2011
- Article
The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo: Evidence from the U.K. National Health Service
By: Julie Battilana
This study examines the relationship between social position, both within the field and within the organization, and the likelihood of individual actors initiating organizational changes that diverge from the institutional status quo. I explore this relationship using... View Details
- winter 1997
- Article
The Effects of Market Structure and Ownership on Prices and Service Offerings in the Cable Television Industry
By: Willis Emmons and Robin A. Prager
- September 2013 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife
By: Anita Elberse, Ryan Barlow and Sheldon Wong
In January 2013, nightlife impresarios Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg are celebrating the re-opening of their famed New York City–based nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one and a half years, Strauss and Tepperberg managed to keep... View Details
- February 2015
- Article
The Great Recession, Insurance Mandates, and the Use of In Vitro Fertilization Services in the United States
By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan, Robert S. Huckman and Mark D. Hornstein
Objective: To investigate the relationship between economic activities, insurance mandates, and the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the United States.
Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic... View Details
Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic... View Details
- Web
Change Your Unix Command Prompt - Research Computing Services
[jharvard@researchgrid] $ This prompt is set by the bash environment variable PS1 , usually specified in one of your login scripts ( ~/.bashrc to be more precise. See this document on what these are and why they matter). There's a weird... View Details
- Web
Stata and Maintaining Version Stability - Research Computing Services
Software Tools Stata and Maintaining Version Stability 2ms Every two years we update Stata in our research computing environment (both desktops and on the HBSGrid). While this is an excellent opportunity to stay abreast of the new... View Details
- 22 May 2024
- News
Nine Students Win Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society
Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
Hundreds of large organizations worldwide have used the groundbreaking Service Profit Chain to improve business... View Details
- March 2021
- Article
The Customer May Not Always Be Right: Customer Compatibility and Service Performance
This paper investigates the impact of customer compatibility – the degree of fit between the needs of customers and the capabilities of the operations serving them – on customer experiences and firm performance. We use a variance decomposition analysis to quantify the... View Details