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      Managing the Manufacturer-Retailer Interface

      By: Janice H. Hammond
      Janice H. Hammond is studying the impact of coordination on the performance of manufacturing and retail channels. The focus of her research is on the supply "channel", the set of firms that undertakes the chain of activities that begins with acquisition of raw... View Details
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      Mastering Strategy Execution

      By: Robert Simons

      Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

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      By: Aiyesha Dey
      Financial Reporting and Control
      Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability... View Details
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      By: Ryan W. Buell
      From creating flight itineraries online, to interacting with tellers to complete complex banking transactions, to engaging with the government to address civic problems, customers are playing an increasingly vital role in the performance of operations in a broadening... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Retention; Customer Behavior; Operational Transparency; Customer Compatibility; Engagement; Customers; Decision Making; Design; Management; Operations; Quality; Relationships; Social Psychology; Technology; Value; Banking Industry; Service Industry; Travel Industry; Web Services Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      By: Jorge Tamayo
      Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

      Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
      Keywords: Industrial Organization, Industrial Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Energy Generation; Performance Efficiency; Market Design; Crime and Corruption; Manufacturing Industry; Energy Industry
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      By: Ashley V. Whillans
      Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
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      By: Michael W. Toffel
      My research examines how companies manage environmental issues, occupational safety, and working conditions in global supply chains. More recently, I have also begun researching the drivers and implications of CEO activism, where organizational leaders speak out on... View Details
      Keywords: Environmental Performance; Environmental Strategy; Labor Management; Transparency; Institutional Theory; Economic Analysis; Quality Improvement; Operations Management; Supply Chain; Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Safety; Quality; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Pollution; Environmental Management; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
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      By: Vincent Pons
      Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

      He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
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      By: Kris Johnson Ferreira
      Professor Ferreira's research primarily focuses on how retailers can use algorithms to make better revenue management decisions, including pricing, product display, and assortment planning. In the retail industry, anticipating consumer demand is arguably one of the... View Details
      Keywords: E-commerce; Analytics; Revenue Management; Pricing; Assortment Planning; Field Experiments; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry
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      Program for Leadership Development

      By: Michael L. Tushman
      Accelerating the Careers of High-Potential Leaders

      Successful businesses know that investing in the next generation of leaders is critical to sustaining competitive advantage and achieving corporate growth over the long term. The Program for Leadership... View Details
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      Social Determinants of Health

      By: Susanna Gallani
      Healthcare provider organizations are becoming progressively more involved in ways to improve health equity and address social determinants of health (SDOH). In this line of work, Prof. Gallani studies organizational factors interacting with the implementation of SODH... View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare Organizations; Performance Management; Accountability; Health Industry
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      The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

      By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
      Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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      Sadun, Raffaella, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh. "The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online October 23, 2023.)
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