Process Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

that corporate insiders' excess control rights aggravate the potential risks of insider expropriation of outside investors and thereby increase firms' external finance constraints. Cases & Course Materials Woolf Farming and Processing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

is not enough to offset the average deviation penalty. To develop our results further, we explore two common ordering heuristics: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. We find that choosing the shortest cases first... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a larger result, typically an ultimate target agreement with sufficient support to make it sustainable. When the unit of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

because they were a chain, they were a business; they had very advanced processes like very good information systems. Health Stop grew to be a $100 million company. But these guys were run out of business by the hospitals and by the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

level the informational playing field. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-033.pdf Signaling Firm Performance through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items Authors:Edward J. Riedl and Suraj... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

education, health care, and the environment at the organizational level of analysis unless we figure out a way to measure collective performance when multiple actors are involved. But funders tend to want to reward individual... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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