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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
and have kids, but Guillaume and I decided that we would rather take a reduced income from one of us not working full-time so that there’s a sort of shock absorber built into the system to handle sick days, teacher meetings, school... View Details
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
college. However, recent changes to the state's accountability system necessitated greater focus on helping Codman Academy students meet this graduation requirement. Codman Academy's founding, academic model, leadership, and partnerships... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
argue that competition can lead organizations to provide illicit quality that satisfies customer demand but violates laws and regulations and that this outcome is particularly likely when price competition is restricted. Using 28 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
worldwide for exquisite design of consumer electronics products, strives to better integrate software design into its traditional physical product design processes to meet the demands of a post-iPod world. Details the Bang & Olufsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
deductibles. We show how choice difficulties or biases may lead patients to respond to such increases in patient cost-sharing by reducing demand for high-value care, muddying the traditional argument that the price elasticity of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
excessive risk-taking (or, at a minimum, didn’t respond with increased prudential regulation), stockholder demands for ever higher returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... “The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
MacKay, Alexander, and Nathan H. Miller Abstract—We consider the identification and estimation of demand systems in models of imperfect competition. Under standard assumptions about View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
stars. Successful professional service firms are able to do this more or less consistently on a long-term basis. We found there are four critical aspects to managing these firms effectively: strategy, organization, culture, and leadership. Success View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
planning for new technology that would allow us to do powerful things at the heart of the kind of high-quality education we were committed to providing. Our progress to date is remarkable. You mentioned the use of video in cases. The View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
absolutely want jobs. But we want competitive jobs that can last in a demanding global economy. MP: The sectors where you can generate the most jobs quickly tend to be in things like healthcare and construction—inherently local... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial structures offset... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or aging parent—or both. That juggling act is made even tougher by... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
business unit. The reward system needs to be based on unit and individual performance, where performance is measured in terms of profitability. And in order for both of those things to happen, there needs to be a change in the corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,” says Borkenstein. “Nurses are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016
their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time in the relative weight they put... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne