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- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
level regulating against outsourcing, controlling borders to discourage labor migration, or training for "quality"—including attitude and skills as well as other attributes? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
concluded that, “Bureaucracy in those examples was very effective.” Among the few suggestions for improving the functioning of bureaucracies was this from Guy: “If you want to have an efficient and effective bureaucracy, then you need to... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
that turns on its head the old rules about ethically “pure” and “impure” work, according to the study. Starting up an online news site or freelancing are now seen as “pure” endeavors, enabling journalists to have View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
wealth—in excess of $8 million (Study 1) and $10 million (Study 2)—are wealthier millionaires happier than millionaires with lower levels of wealth, though these differences are modest in magnitude. Second, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53182 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary Care Plus, using an interdisciplinary team of a primary... View Details
- November 1985 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
R&R
Outlines alternative mechanisms for getting into business. Shows the means by which an experienced entrepreneur can gain control over the necessary resources in order to lower the fixed costs of business entry. Provides a mechanism for discussing the role of... View Details
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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
lengthier times to payment. Once IT systems can support bundled reimbursement, sending a single bill and processing a single claim will dramatically reduce the administrative View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
include housing. Returning veterans could not find affordable homes. A condominium costs 12 times annual income; and the country has a dearth of rental units. In Israel, demand... View Details
- February 2006 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Sippican Corporation (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Presents a time-driven version of the Wilkerson Co. activity-based costing case (101092). Faced with declining profits, Sippican Corp. is struggling to understand why it is encountering severe price competition on one product line. The controller collects data that... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Model; Strategic Planning; Cost Accounting; Motivation and Incentives; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Business Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting
Kaplan, Robert S. "Sippican Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 106-058, February 2006. (Revised September 2006.)
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
accessing valuable resources primarily controlled by White people, according to the study, Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites’ Geographical and Institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53835 July–August 2018 Journal of Healthcare Management Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various Process-Improvement Strategies in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
can cascade into large accidents. Moreover, practices that conflate competence with toughness lead workers to ignore precautionary measures and take unnecessary risks. Thus, the costs of men's masculine... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
article proposes that the review process initially be adopted on a pilot basis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53264 September 2017 Health Affairs Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
envision a world in which there was a computer on every desk at a time when personal computers didn't exist. But he also realized that the way to capitalize on that future was to focus his energies on View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Our logistic regression models indicate that (1) realized post-purchase price drops lead to a higher probability of return, and (2) anticipated price drops after purchase lead to a higher probability of using cash on delivery, a payment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
awareness of cybersecurity issues. Combined with the ability to block ads, the growing costs of acquiring customers online, the experience of “Zoombombing,” and controls on... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes