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- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
mathematical models has turned the negotiated order of organizational activities, which necessarily include particularistic elements, into abstract generalizations that favor quantifiable variables. This paper offers another logic, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
of variety in their products because of the experiments they conduct. Instead, the results showed just the opposite. While the cost of experimentation in the furniture industry is relatively low, Verganti and his colleague found that the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://hbr.org/2013/10/fergusons-formula/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Corporate Venturing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
loss—which is how companies often gauge success. As such, they tend to view themselves as overhead, and they paradoxically try to justify their existence by falling into adversarial policing roles in an attempt to cut costs for the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
explaining the success of various training and education programs. We use these distinctions to structure the landscape of strategic decisions that both organizations committed to organizational development and providers of executive development programs must in very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
of 2.5 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles with implications for growth policy and our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
wisdom for banks was that in order to grow they should offer the best rates of deposit or buy another company. Instead, she said, Commerce Bank offered the worst deposit rate in every single local market. It has never made an acquisition.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has already started to be observed. We show that the cost of making it individually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
including streaming content). Even the best product design will end up subordinated to the best multi-sided platform. Software platforms have also been the source of much creative destruction. The reduction in transaction costs and... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
orientation of the "hierarchical industry leaders" can entail large missed opportunities for other members of the ecosystem, who are unable to fully exploit their potential in global markets. We argue that Japan has to adopt several key legislative measures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
scenarios and with expert opinions on emerging risk issues. In order to explain the dynamics of these alternative plots, I show that risk experts engage in various kinds of boundary-work (Gieryn, 1983, 1999), sometimes to expand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
article mainly evaluates Roger Fisher's core contributions to the content or substance of negotiation research, theory, teaching, and practice. The discussion is organized around five thematic prescriptions: 1) focus on the other party's decisions in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
has begun to grow kiwifruit outside of New Zealand in order to have the product on retail shelves year round. Is this the right strategy for the future? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511001-PDF-ENG Asian Agri... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
that attempts to maximize profits. This stage takes into account costs as well as firm's objectives and constraints (e.g., minimum market share requirement). Over the last several decades, marketing researchers and practitioners have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
standardized, and centralized repository, it mitigates information costs for buyers and sellers and, thus, facilitates transactions in the market for ideas. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53959... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600 firms in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
of management became a central focus. This organizational narcissism not only produced the Enron effect, but it cost managers a front-row seat in a changing society marked by the dramatically different yearnings and needs of its own end... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an important unintended consequence: racial discrimination. In a field experiment on Airbnb, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Teaming: An Approach to the Growing Complexities in Health Care: AOA Critical Issues By: Nwaz, H., A. Edmondson, T.H. Tzeng, J.K. Saleh, K.J. Bozic, and K.J. Saleh Abstract—Confronted with rising costs and patients who often have multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
beliefs as well as how a customer's beliefs affect its order quantities. We identify two dimensions of supplier performance: consistency, the probability that a supplier delivers in the current period conditional on availability in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne