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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
alter interactions between functions, in ways that hold major implications for organizational structure. Intense, ongoing coordination becomes necessary across multiple functions, including design, operations, sales, service, and IT.... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
cross-disciplinary group of mid-career, research-oriented faculty—has organized to coordinate activities that promote high-quality research in the field of strategy. This editorial essay summarizes the group's view of the characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital convergence and decreasing magazine sales. Historically a proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: creating a senior management position responsible for e-commerce... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program manager at Adobe and responsible for coordinating the integration of her business unit's product—Device Central—in Creative Suite 3. Murray is copied on an email that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
electricity production and consumption to reduce spikes in demand; and EMBARQ, based in Washington, DC, which coordinates the interests of business and government to organize city transit services. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
advertising and marketing services is best served through the coordination and integration of resources from both inside and outside the company, rather than assuming that these options are mutually exclusive. A review of advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
care and patient education programs provide opportunities to examine integrated practice units, early-stage and preventive care, and clinical coordination along the full care cycle. The focus on diabetes also enables discussion of what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
relationship between changes in the structure of the executive team, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
are witnessing the dawn of a new model of corporate power: The coordination of actions and decisions on the front lines now appears to stem from widely shared values and a sturdy platform of common processes and technology, not from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
4Deserts adventure marathon series in Atacama, Chile; Gobi Desert, Mongolia; Sahara Desert, Egypt; and Antarctica. How can a small company in Hong Kong continue to effectively coordinate such a far-flung, complex, global operation?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
coordinate with one another to reduce costs and ensure that patients were receiving the highest quality of care. PatientPing sold its platform to a range of customers, from small skilled nursing facilities to large health systems, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
account is one that frames the purpose of the for-profit corporation in terms of its function in allowing members of society to meet their wants and needs by coordinating labor and capital in the production of goods and services. August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Federal Reserve System, a new agency, or a coordinating body of existing regulators." On Capitol Hill, Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, initially championed the Fed as a systemic risk... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
interdependence between divisions residual to the formal structure. As a result, those innovations which involve cross-line-of-business interdependence are trumped by the firm's articulated strategy and structure. Social structures could, potentially, fill this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
other leisure boats, and set amongst dramatic coastline, the project would transform the region. Coordinating the many stakeholders in a new country, Jack has to decide the best way to navigate the development risks and whether the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
both organizations and employees benefit by emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves. Paper: http://www.francescagino.com/publications.html First-Party Content and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Daniel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
through corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters. We find that the number of functional managers closer to the product ("product" functions i.e., marketing, R&D) increase as firms focus their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne