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  • June 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Reversing the AMD Fusion Launch

By: Elie Ofek and Ryan Johnson
AMD management needs to make a critical decision on the launch sequence of its next-generation technology called Fusion. The Fusion processor concept merges the central and graphics processing units (CPU and GPU) onto one chip-- yielding advantages in performance... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Competition; Value Creation; Computer Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to Coordination and Performance

By: Heidi K. Gardner

Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members disagree about where each member ranks on the... View Details

Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Perception; Status and Position; Cooperation
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The Influence of Ownership on Accounting Information Expenditures

This paper analyzes the association between ownership, top management incentives, and expenditures on accounting information. We argue that organizations with privately appointed boards of directors such as for-profit and non-governmental nonprofit organizations use... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Ownership; Health Industry
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    Heating Sector Transformation in Rhode Island

    In a heating transformation study presented to Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo,... View Details

      Customers As Innovators: A New Way to Create Value

      Product R&D at many companies is a major bottleneck. The difficulty is that fully understanding the needs of just a single customer can be an inexact and costly process--to say nothing of the needs of all customers or even groups of them. In the course of... View Details

        Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period

        Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts make investment recommendations on Snap: two with buy... View Details

        • 29 Oct 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        The History and Influence of Andy Grove

        being an historian is the perspective provided by the passage of time. You have a frame in which you can place events. The historian is willing to sacrifice, for that priceless asset, immediacy and access. We have a lot of perspective on... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
        • 01 Jun 2023
        • News

        In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

        Tanzania. Now based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ngoyi finds her global experience is a good fit with her current role. In May 2022, she was named CEO of the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA). A $670 million investment fund and subsidiary of Afreximbank, FEDA View Details
        Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance
        • 08 Aug 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

        have produced an unintended consequence: a rising sense of time scarcity. We provide evidence that using money to buy time can provide a buffer against this time famine, thereby promoting happiness. Using... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 09 Mar 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

        enforcement on air pollution controls. In California, OpenCounter streamlined registration for small businesses and provided zoning clearances in a fraction of the usual time. In New York, Mark43 is developing software to analyze crime... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding
        • January 2016
        • Case

        Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

        By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
        This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
        Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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        • 19 Jun 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

        Applied Corporate Finance Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive social impact. In this paper, I... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 15 Jan 2019
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

        our statistical results with qualitative information from interviews, which highlighted the importance of reinforcing the organizational goals’ message and providing support for their attainment. We also show more favorable effects for... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 08 Mar 2021
        • Blog Post

        International Women's Day Featured Stories

        institutionalizing the resources needed for our community to engage deeper with DEI topics. This role has allowed me to create and support the inaugural class of Section DEI Reps, provide feedback on the MBA financial aid formula, and... View Details
        • 13 Jul 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: July 13

        is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 31 May 2011
        • First Look

        First Look: May 31

        analyze all questions and answers from the inception of the Google Answers service through November 2003, and I find notable trends in answerer behavior: more experienced answerers provide answers with the characteristics askers most... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 28 Apr 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

        driving the commercial success of a complementary product.” Advice for creative gatekeepers The most important implication of the research may be for the powerful platforms that act as gatekeepers on the creative content we consume: Without an incentive structure... View Details
        Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
        • 16 Dec 2021
        • Blog Post

        African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

        problems and the HBS classroom challenges me to critically think about everything I say and do. But my background has been the most significant in my Technology and Operations Management (TOM) class, where I often provide first-hand... View Details
        • 04 Feb 2010
        • What Do You Think?

        What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

        learned that it is helpful to host a 'conversation' between my rational/analytical side and my intuitive side." Phil Clark's advice provides a useful close: "If you are seeking the perfect solution, you likely are making no... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett
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        Emily Schlichting

        the private sector that to effectively implement policy reform, I needed to understand how business works, particularly in health care." To pursue her ultimate objective, "a health care system in the U.S. that provides everyone... View Details
        Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education