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  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Case 508-074 The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to ownership structures that allow for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608151 Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative Harvard Business School Case 608-102 When Quanta Computer, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of laptop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

not a recommendation to manufacture a false enthusiasm to gloss over problems. Speaking about and to employees' pride has to be authentic; employees will quickly sniff out managerial insincerity, and the manager's communication will... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

regulate the industry, and the company became a pioneer in establishing a regulatory model and developing good manufacturing practices for stem cells and human tissue. ViaCord’s first transplant was in 1995, saving the life of a young... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

the partner type and private consumption. We estimate our model using the 2013 "Living Costs and Food Survey" database. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54695 forthcoming The Economics of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

Molded) grommet, was supported heavily by the product development group because it was simpler to design and improved the leak seat. Process development was against using it because it cost more, complicated the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

annual public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

secular trend for India's manufacturing urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

structure between software applications. Our test uses data from a large international telecom company. In total, we analyzed 103 applications and 243 dependencies. Results show that the enterprise application structure can be classified as a core-periphery... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

markets—a far cry from the buffer zones and spheres of influence surrounding the large twentieth-century hierarchical organizations. They typically didn't know whether their product would work, what it would really cost to make and sell... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring patent holders to allow others... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman