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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
frenemies limited to the Apple-Amazon example. The same pattern may emerge when competing platforms with asymmetric profit strategies. For example, Amazon recently listed its Chinese e-commerce site as a virtual store on the massive... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
reform in China, its causes and its implications, and from the perspective of one private equity play, discussed the issues of corporate governance, conflicts of interest, and the fiduciary duty of corporate managers in an emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
brand strategies. They looked to emerging international markets to fuel growth and broaden their portfolios of alternate beverages like tea, juice, sports drinks, energy drinks, and bottled water. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had vied for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
way for people in emerging markets to engage with the Internet, he said. "We think there's a lot of room for innovation here and a lot of room for richness and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
preoperative holding room was less than that of placing epidurals in the operating room. Personnel reallocation and workflow changes resulted in mean cost reductions of 14% with epidurals in the holding room... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
"While companies might have an intended strategy, the strategy that actually emerges can be very different," says HBS professor Clark G. Gilbert. It is a topic that Gilbert and professor Joseph L. Bower have explored at length... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
General Management Program Harvard Business School Note 407-022 Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program developing into effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
program to reduce health care costs by focusing on providing better care to that 5 percent—often those patients who rack up exorbitant costs with repeat emergency room visits. In a New Yorker article,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
that their jobs routinely require them to stay late at the office, but when you press them, they admit that isn't true. Some occasional emergencies need to take precedence over everything else, but unless you work in a hospital, those... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
medical center. You don't have to be from Boston, Los Angeles, or Houston. You don't need to be affiliated with Harvard. A winning idea could be from anywhere." Ideas submitted so far include a tool for crowdsourcing medical diagnoses; a system for View Details
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
investigates teaming in the high-stakes, fast-paced setting of a hospital emergency room and focuses on the effects of a new organizational structure, which we call a team scaffold, on teaming effectiveness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
technological shifts to closed-body designs and metal stamping technology, as well as the marketing-led idea of the annual model change. The case offers a setting to examine several frameworks: exploration versus exploitation, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
areas of regulation," he explains. In most cases, new regulations emerged from political coalitions forged between specific industries and groups of activist consumers. Questioning The Unquestioned View Trumbull nods in agreement when... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
OnStar as president and CEO for 14 years. A major subsidiary of General Motors, OnStar provides in-vehicle security, navigation, remote diagnostic, and emergency services to more than 6 million subscribers. Now a senior lecturer at HBS,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
aside time to focus that can help restore work-life balance. Joseph Fuller: Make time for ‘deep work’ at the office and home People have struggled to balance the demands of work and their personal lives since the emergence of organized... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
I use to describe this leadership model: leading from behind . I think it captures the type of leader I'm talking about. I got the idea from reading Nelson Mandela. Several years ago-jet-lagged in my hotel room in Cape Town, overlooking... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitative important role in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
the case materials, lectures, guest speakers, and application workshops: First, you must understand the externals in your business and their impact on required sales tasks. Value is created or destroyed in the external marketplace, not in conference View Details