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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

If You're #1, Watch Out

and disks, and then to producers of chip-manufacturing technology, as each area in turn became the focus for innovation to improve performance. Old-school wisdom suggested that market leaders should "stick... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

  Working PapersThe Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2012
  • News

Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

business-location decisions at an alarming rate, and those activities being offshored are more job-rich than those coming in,” said Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

customers by teaching them the correct ordering protocol. Dell deals with arrival and request variability in its high-end server business by outsourcing customer service while staying in close touch with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

HP and Dell that have outsourced most of their computer product design to ODM firms like ASUSTeK, only to watch them morph into competitors. Students can also examine how organizational resources, processes,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2000 (Revised June 2002)
  • Supplement

Nick Fiore: Healer or Hitman? (B)

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Strategic Planning; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)

emulators — turned out to be just the right size. It’s not too small — we’re growing nicely — but not too big, so there aren’t a lot of other people in it. What I’d like to do over: We were very hands-on in the beginning. We might have realized sooner that we could use... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

record before this spill, which may also have contributed to the creation of this fund. After this, the case describes the various ways in which the U.S. government is involved in offshore oil, starting from the leasing of tracts, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Comment

Discussion of 'The Use of Management Control Mechanisms to Mitigate Moral Hazard in the Decision to Outsource'

By: Dennis Campbell
Keywords: Management; Decision Making; Ethics; Job Cuts and Outsourcing
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  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

  Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

factors in explaining the increased presence of NGOs in the last few decades: a trend towards more outsourcing of government services; new ventures by would-be not-for-profit "entrepreneurs"; and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Finding a Balance

government has been unresponsive to date. With Western companies such as Microsoft, GE, and IBM making significant investment in IT outsourcing in India, the pressure is on for the government to toe the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

    Joseph I. Miller

    outsource their engine production to Cummins. By the end of his tenure, Cummins had reached the billion-dollar revenue mark and had captured over 45% of the domestic market for diesel engines. View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 19 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 19

    margins from its Help Desk contract with Fonaveu, a large, strategically important customer. Emergia is considering tactics such as overdelivering on calls that incur lower costs (while underdelivering on high cost calls), offshoring the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 May 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: May 12, 2009

    Edge" (708-051); "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA" (708-022); and "Supergrid" (707-016). Purchase this note:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

    performance. They have effectively outsourced the evaluation of CEO performance and compensation to the market, and often to consultants. As an example, from 1990 to 2001, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
    • 16 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16

    Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne