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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding how trust impacts delivering superior performance
Why does one company succeed, while another fails? The research of Rebecca M. Henderson (MBA 1985, AM 1988, PhD 1988), University Professor, indicates that a fundamental difference concerns informal relational contracts between employers, employees, and View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
looking at the health of America’s supply chains shouldn’t just consider large companies, but also small innovative suppliers of both goods and services. Are they getting access to the capital, the trained workforce, and the intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
that normative or preconceived beliefs about the functioning of the social world may guide social behavior in children. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54387 Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Abhay Saboo
number of high-impact roles including monitoring the quality of 6,000 suppliers and overseeing the transfer of CT scanner production from Japan to China. "It wasn't just about technical issues," Abhay notes, "but how... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the companies involved in moving goods... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
conduct and to monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether or when these organizational structures can actually raise labor standards. We extend the literature on private politics and decoupling by identifying... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
complementors...using as an example Intel and the microprocessor-manufacturing game...as Nalebuff and Brandenburger explain: Along the vertical dimension of the Value Net are the company's customers and suppliers. Resources such as raw materials and labor flow from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
product offerings, start treating the third party suppliers like partners, and invest in local distribution centers.” Other concerns included those associated with changing customer shopping habits, the use of new technologies, and... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
about the allegations. They found that after a lawsuit was filed, the government changed the terms to shift more of the contract risk to the supplier during the investigation. It did so by increasing the proportion of work the company... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
environmental performance. Several voluntary programs have arisen to encourage suppliers to report this information in a standardized manner, but the information companies report might misrepresent their performance and can thus mislead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Employers Suppliers Policymakers Policymakers Policymakers Policymakers play a key role in the transition to a value-based health care delivery system. Many older laws and regulations that attempted to prevent fraud and abuse in the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
traditional commercial air transport.” Which is eventually how, on April 2, a plane owned by the New England Patriots flew from China to Logan International Airport, carrying more than a million N95 respirator masks that the Baker administration arranged to buy from... View Details
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In "Sarah... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
clean energy technology, and customer demand for products and services. Another case looks at Norsk Gjenvinning, Norway’s largest supplier of recycling and environmental services, which was purchased by a private equity fi rm in 2012.... View Details
- Web
Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Employers Suppliers Policymakers Patients Patients Consumers, as health plan subscribers and patients, should be the ultimate beneficiaries of a value-based health care delivery system. They can and should act as catalysts for change —but... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
accuracy of those assessments. We analyzed nearly 17,000 code-of-conduct audits conducted at nearly 6,000 suppliers around the world. We found that audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
overseas suppliers. One example is Hasbro, which began sourcing from firms in India, Vietnam, and Mexico in the last five years. Moving existing suppliers out of China. Goertek, a supplier of Google’s Pixel... View Details
- Web
Improving the Local & Regional Business Environment - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
improvements in the local business environment in the regions in which they have major operations. Factors affecting the local business environment —discussed in more detail in Michael Porter’s work on economic development—include the availability of a skilled... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
suppliers of assets for rent, physical products, or services with customers demanding them. Among the most notable two-sided platforms in terms of their tremendous early growth were Airbnb, Etsy, and Uber. They offered short-term property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne