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    TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or The End of the Beginning?

    TransDigm, an incredibly successful yet relatively unknown company, manufactures a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts utilizing a somewhat controversial strategy. In the 10 years following its IPO in March 2006, its stock price increased by... View Details
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    Patent terminology: Provisional vs nonprovisional

    What is the difference between a provisional and non-provisional patent application? A nonprovisional patent application is normally considered the "regular" utility patent application. It’s what you file to get the USPTO... View Details
    • 05 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Business and the Global Poor

    Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have the start of an answer. But... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • April 2021
    • Article

    Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson
    An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work-from-anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work-from-home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility, work-from-anywhere (WFA) programs... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Flexibility; Work-from-anywhere; Remote Work; Telecommuting; Geographic Mobility; USPTO; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance Productivity
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    • 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil (A)

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Daniella Suarez
    In 2011, Gilberto Dimenstein, a well-known Brazilian journalist, created a new model that connected disparate resources to revitalize Sao Paulo. He wanted his model to expand across Brazil and the world. Dimenstein covered many of the social issues facing Brazil as a... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Urban Scope; Social Issues; Education; Knowledge Dissemination; Learning; Leading Change; Brazil
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    The Comprehensive Effects of a Digital Paywall Sales Strategy

    By: Doug J. Chung, Ho Kim and Reo Song
    This paper explores the multiple and comprehensive effects of a digital paywall sales strategy, an increasingly common means of go-to-market for media firms. Specifically, we examine the effects of a digital paywall on a media firm’s two sources of income—subscription... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Paywall; Demand Substitution; Spillover Effect; Synthetic Control; Sales; Strategy; Media; Newspapers; Publishing Industry
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    • 07 Sep 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Martin Dimitrov, Tulane

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    Executive Education: Finance for Senior Executives

    By: Malcolm P. Baker

    Finance for Senior Executives provides the frameworks to strategically use financial resources and position your company for future success. By examining corporate finance from both internal and external perspectives, this HBS Executive Education View Details

    • Web

    Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni

    Careers Finding Job Opportunities Careers Finding Job Opportunities Starting to get the job search underway but feeling overwhelmed? These tools can help you stay organized and informed as you start to explore your options. Finding Job Opportunities Alumni Job Postings... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

    “The main onus is on businesses to make more hours available to part-time employees. That will enable employers to utilize workers they already have with company-specific experience, bolstering their income and reducing the odds that they... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 15 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

    automation but prefer higher levels of automation for others than themselves,” De Freitas says. “This is because they think that they are better at driving than increasingly automated systems. We believe this creates a barrier to adoption.” “Whether people View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    20 NOV 2024 | Climate Rising In this episode, host Mike Toffel speaks with Pasi Miettinen, CEO of Sagewell, a company that uses AI to help utilities and their customers manage energy demand efficiently. Pasi explains how Sagewell’s... View Details
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    Marketing - Faculty & Research

    psychologically analogous to the dual pathways of persistence and flexibility in human ideation. Further, we distinguish between the utility of LLMs as key ideators versus humans as key ideators, conceptualized through the LLM ideation... View Details
    • 28 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Scott Duke Kominers; Technology
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Intrinsic Motivation and Referrals Within Firms: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution

    By: Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
    Many organizations rely on internal referrals between employees with differing comparative advantages. Yet when an employee encounters a lucrative opportunity, they may be motivated to retain it even when doing so harms efficiency. We develop a framework that... View Details
    Keywords: Loan Officers; Strategic Behavior; Strategic Disclosure; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail

    By: Chaoqun Chen and Donald Ngwe
    Shipping fees are an important aspect of online retail for both consumers and sellers. A common fee structure is contingent free shipping, in which consumers are granted free shipping for basket sizes above a minimum value and are charged a flat fee for orders below... View Details
    Keywords: Shpping Fee; E-commerce; Multi-category Demand; Search Costs; Shipping Membership; Spending; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry
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    • April 2017
    • Case

    The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta
    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia
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    • 01 Jan 2014
    • News

    Competing with Privacy

    • 27 Sep 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management

    • April 2023
    • Article

    Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

    By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams
    OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

    DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry
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