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- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
campaign compare when the tasks are performed internally rather than by an independent outside agency? Ownership of an in-house agency rests with the advertiser and allows the advertiser greater control over matters such as the assignment of personnel and the... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
regulators and platform companies to get together and discuss how best to coordinate the information that each of these parties has about service providers. Lagace: What does this mean for policymakers? Farronato: I think governments... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
more coordinated regulatory approach to oversight of financial services. Industry should be included and at the table to ensure that they have a consistent mechanism to provide feedback and advice on how any new regulation will hurt or... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
open collaborative sample. Based on a detailed analysis of the cases in which the mirroring hypothesis was not supported, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency as a means of achieving coordination without mirroring. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
variable store traffic. What Mercadona shows is that all this torture isn't necessary. You can offer employees stability and still run a very successful supermarket chain." The Specialist Knows The Mercadona case, which Ton has taught in the MBA course View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
case decisions are 1) what factors are critical to the decision; 2) how to calculate the tradeoffs among transportation costs, inventory costs, and order costs; and 3) how the company's managers should coordinate to make the decision.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
accelerate the diffusion of new environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopters. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-030.pdf The Political Economy of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
that health-care delivery is centralized in hospitals that are seen as too big and inefficient. In contrast, others find fault with an overly fragmented system that may result in significant coordination and quality problems. Huckman says... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social indicators. Both states faced constraints in the form of budget deficits, competition from other states, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
enough to cover costs of safety improvements. Sridevi Kalavakolanu, a Wal-Mart director of ethical sourcing, told attendees the company wouldn't share the cost, according to Ineke Zeldenrust, international coordinator for the Clean... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
We also identify the mediating role that communication and leadership play in generating these effects. We find other-regarding workers tend to depress efforts by 15% on average. However, selfish workers are nearly three times more likely to lead workers to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
public relations agency, instituted a Client Relationship Leader (CRL) Program for its top 32 global accounts. The purpose of the program is to ensure that all of the firm's resources across geographies, practice areas, and specialty areas are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
making, and practice. We discuss important implications and offer suggestions for further research. Read the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0618 Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management Authors:Cynthia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
tasks can cost physicians extra coordination time, plus doctors still need to review and authorize orders in an EHR before they are submitted. The study examined the relationship between physician productivity, the degree of digital... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the smaller religious groups as well as... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
bankruptcy. While initial ownership concentration is important for coordination of a prearranged bankruptcy filing, it is consolidation of ownership during bankruptcy-and specifically consolidation of ownership of voting classes-that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
in green building expertise. Our findings suggest that government procurement policies can accelerate the diffusion of new environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopters.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne