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- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact. Q: What are the chief impediments to strategy execution? A: The chief impediment is inertia. Over time, organizations tend to optimize the efficiency of their... View Details
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Brendan Mosher
Defense (DOD) fellowship to Stanford. There, he concentrated on engineering design and worked on energy reduction optimization for a Nissan factory in Tennessee, as well as an innovative consumer technology... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Starting from the premise that successful communication with some 65,000 HBS alumni is essential to optimize the relationship between HBS and its constituents, this committee will examine the existing channels of communication to current... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the by-product. Optimization of a by-product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
guaranteed income. And because that objective filtered right through the scheme, members thought of their benefits in those terms. Ask a member what her pension is worth and she'll reply with an income figure: "two-thirds of my final salary," for example.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs By: Battilana, Julie, Michael Fuerstein, and Michael Lee Abstract—For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online to purchase cars. The online... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
must address a major design problem: Sophisticated investors have been gaming the system by applying specialized screening tools to scoop up the choicest loans with the lowest default rates, leaving less experienced investors with less... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single keyword, where in each round, each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
conscious thought that produced the best results overall. It resulted in participants choosing options that were both compliant with the decision rule and had a high number of positive attributes. Q: One way you and colleagues have tried to sort out the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but can also be used in conjunction with the book. The Action Plan guides individuals through an examination of the critical areas of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
Value Lab at the Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard. The researchers found that PE investors often turn to digital transformation strategies and technology to help revamp portfolio firms, and this investment often accelerates... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
relationship that favored all parties. We discuss implications for research in the economics and management of MSPs. Specifically, we argue that the literature would benefit from work that endogenizes platform design and that considers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland