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- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
their economies opened up, reducing the competitiveness between them and enhancing the complementarities. Some companies have already developed strategies that make use of both countries' capabilities. India's Mahindra & Mahindra developed a tractor domestically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
to the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), only one of 5,000 to 10,000 experimental compounds make it to FDA approval, and just 2 of the 10 that get that approval produce enough revenue to exceed the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Indeed, many of the leaders we've celebrated over the last decade or two made their organizations competitive by instituting fairly linear improvements, such as reengineering, supply chain management, enhanced customer responsiveness, and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
knowing the high-stakes industry suffers from significant levels of turnover and spends an inordinate amount of time and money onboarding new staff. In fact, one industry source estimated nurse turnover at more than 20 percent, which View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
less common as manufacturing loses influence, in the following email Q&A Anteby explains that moral gray zones operate everywhere, at all levels of organizations. What's more, they will probably remain strong in the years to come.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
executives set standards for leadership. As good as the late 1980s were to forest products company Boise Cascade (BC) Corporation, the early 1990s spelled near disaster for its primary business — making plain, white copier paper. Like others in the industry, Boise... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
focused in his first couple of years. He got rid of a huge number of product lines. He streamlined the operations and he bet on a very small number of products. The combination of the early success of the iMac, the booming marketing in 1998 and 1999, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
vertically integrated,” he notes. “Studios used to be stand-alone companies that were run like fiefdoms. Now they’re run like major corporations answering to shareholders.” Skyrocketing fees for star actors coupled with the high marketing View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
long-term study. Now owned by Mannesmann, the factory itself still manufactures large-diameter pipes today. Before the 1920s, German firms were often messier, more haphazard, less decentralized than many American corporations. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
businesses and economies. Lessons from history for the US You might be questioning the relevance of these studies; they focus on immigration at the height of manufacturing and industrialization, unlike the artificial intelligence-driven... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
delivers in the current period conditional on a stockout in the prior period. We also provide a method for estimating the impact of changes in supplier performance along these two dimensions on customer demand. Using data from Hugo Boss, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
avoided because of cultural norms. I founded SHE in 2008, and its first initiative, SHE28, was created to stem the significant costs to the health, education, productivity, and dignity of women and girls in the developing world caused by... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity of products and services, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
experience. Prioritizing the shortest tasks is particularly detrimental to productivity. Actively grouping similar tasks also reduces productivity, in stark contrast to productivity gains from exogenous grouping, indicating deviation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good specimen, in this context, means a... View Details