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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- July 2007
- Case
Kristen's Cookie Company (A) (Abridged)
By: Roger E. Bohn and Janice H. Hammond
The student is starting his or her own business, baking make-to-order cookies. Basic times of each operation are laid out and the student is asked to determine the consequences for the operating system. Serves as an exercise and review of concepts such as capacity,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; SWOT Analysis; Operations; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity
Bohn, Roger E., and Janice H. Hammond. "Kristen's Cookie Company (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 608-037, July 2007.
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
is to assume that quality of labor is genetic ." Flavius Chircu said, "I would simplify the analysis by substituting 'quality of labor' with 'quality of output,' be that output a product, service, or mix thereof." In Sneh... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
resource capacity that are necessary to fulfill the sales and production needs of the strategic plan. Without this coupling, operational plans either provide too little or too much capacity for the strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
central part of their mission, asserting that they educate and develop leaders for society. And yet, if we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership is actually given fairly short shrift. The gap—between... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
whooping crane, and the power company urgently needed new generating capacity and a greener image. After a costly legal impasse that threatened to last for years, the three groups designed a better deal that included a smaller dam built... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0733-558x&volume=33 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Authors:Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy Publication:5th ed. Cengage Learning, forthcoming An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
Stadium (with 85,600 seats) was reconfigured into Turner Field, capacity 50,000, over a period of seven months and a cost of $200 million. The retrofit worked well for 20 years, when the site served as home to the Atlanta Braves baseball... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
be divided into strategic and operational activities. Strategic activities include, among others, long-term capacity planning and network configuration of warehouses, distributors, and retail stores. Examples of operational activities... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
instances, they're caught between a rock and a hard place. They want to demonstrate accountability to funders, but at the same time they need to push back and share their analysis to explain why they're not measuring impact." There's risk... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
export-orientation is feasible in the current economic climate. On the demand side, the sluggish growth in advanced economy markets and the excess capacity globally might leave insufficient room for countries to achieve export growth... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
everything they do. “New technologies in the supply chain, such as artificial intelligence, have the capacity to similarly ripple through the economy in a way that consumer products simply can’t.” The supply chain economy leads to... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
in crises. These survey results form the basis for our analysis and advice below. Do consumers want to hear from brands during a crisis? Yes, they do, but only when that communication is comforting and reassuring to them and provides... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' we... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
year, reaching half that production capacity in January and the rest by the end of April. Yet if governments had invested enough upfront to bring the second half online just three months earlier, the economic savings would have topped... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
litigations on firm strategy. Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time This study of ultrasound test orders in hospital emergency departments shows that, paradoxically, increasing View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
information about the quality of the firm's opportunities. While we conduct our analysis in the context of an inventory stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and restructured. Such reform will have a profound and lasting impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate networks that influenced global economic relations, peace, and democracy in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne