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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
come to an end. It has been replaced by a system of fragmented markets and relatively unstandardized products that has led to intensified competition, a more unstable economy, and greater business uncertainty. This rising uncertainty, I... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is compelling: a well-run fund can help a firm respond quickly to changes in markets and gain a better view of threats. In some cases, it can stimulate demand for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
sure high returns were tied to management compensation. The pressure to produce unrealistic profit fueled increased risk-taking. And as the government relaxed checks on excessive risk-taking (or, at a minimum, didn't respond with increased prudential regulation),... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
diagnostic tests for screening. Screening games can apply to the cases where by-products, partner fidelity feedback, or host sanctions do not apply, therefore explaining the evolution of mutualism in systems where it is impossible for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
you can't design a system that is based on the faith that all of your employees will perform heroically, all day, every day, for an indefinite period. For a system to work, excellence must be normalized. And... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
find that increases in demand for entrepreneurial capital—as proxied for by patenting, IPOs, and stock market valuations—led to a higher likelihood of the introduction of second-tier exchanges. We find no evidence that new second-tier... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
respect to designing and maintaining their costing systems, including the need to keep the costing system in line with the business processes of the firm throughout its life cycle; the setting of transfer prices, which highlights the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
race tracks, interactive tombstones, and stride-changing running shoes. These four products form the basis to assess the drivers of new product adoption. In particular, one of the critical tasks in marketing new innovations is predicting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well-hidden, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
inspiration and guidance do you think retailers could draw from the Toyota Production System (TPS)? A: TPS highlights include the power of focusing and executing the operational details; the vital role of continuous process improvement;... View Details
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Address the Refugee Crisis A paper written by Swedish student Lovisa “Lisa” Tengberg (MBA 2020) for the spring 2020 elective Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change was selected for development as a case study. “Just Arrived:... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
to Jewish organizational life. Inspired by 30 years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the skills... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
systems. The links between multinational firms form a distinct type of international system for the private sector—one that is simultaneously enmeshed in geopolitics and international markets even as it is also autonomous from them. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
ensuring the health of their employees and their families by demanding more aggressive requirements from their health plans or they must work directly with large health systems. At this stage in our nation's history we face a clear... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
laws the government uses to enforce their whims and desires...For Microsoft to treat such a system of non-objective law with disdain ... and contempt ... is a commendable and uplifting act of principle." Questioning whether outside... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett