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- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager of the division leading the process is experiencing disagreement and conflict among the members of the senior management team. This case describes a difficult... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
company, such as marketing, communications, or consumer behavior specialists, to help design a code that will be understandable to employees. Uber, for example, rolled out a mobile app-focused version of its ethics code to better serve... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
adhering to five design principles. The success of several new products illustrates how. One is the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a low-cost wheelchair that can navigate rugged terrain in places with poor infrastructure; a modified version is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Newtown, versions of this process had been put into practice in those locations. My mayor wasn’t inclined in that direction, however. He felt that when money went into foundations (which are the epitome of HBS Professor Howard Stevenson’s... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
different versions of their applications for each social networking site. Facebook's managers had to decide how to respond to OpenSocial. Should they join the initiative or keep Facebook Platform proprietary and seek further... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
work. The case forces the student to choose among the four orders, given limited capacity available, other business likely to come along, and the requirements of each order. The case is an updated version of Fabtek (A). Purchase the case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and routine sequences possible. This abridged version of the note does not reference the case "OXXO's Turf War Against Extra." It is intended to be used in a classroom setting where "OXXO's Turf War Against Extra" is also being taught,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
Some also claim that enforcing the individual mandate is not feasible, but Switzerland's 97 percent enrollment rate for its version of the individual mandate indicates that it's possible. The Swiss achieve this compliance through... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
potential customer population when pricing at a level that, under the condition, can be shown to be an upper bound for a rational price choice for the firm irrespective of the prices chosen by its competitors. We show that under a somewhat stronger, but still broadly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
ways of promoting them. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806172 The STAR Schools Initiative at the San Francisco Unified School District Public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
pattern, with neighborhoods situated near physically attractive areas tending to become physically attractive themselves. It also found that neighborhoods closer to downtown business districts improved—a relatively new version of... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and the new process flow for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only after multi-year lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
compatible versions of the platform. This article examines factors that favor proprietary versus shared models when designing new platforms, then explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and shared platform during network... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
revealed a consistent pattern: most people choose experienced happiness for longer time frames but not for shorter time frames. Since people typically live hour-to-hour, these findings imply that people may end up living a different View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
they've won. And the spot changes with each new competitive achievement—moving targets. No wonder we're stressed out. Maximized versions of success are more than superficial presentations. They have the power to co-opt our innermost... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
negotiating. The plaintiffs are the patent holder and its sole licensee, who is also a CKC competitor. (This case is a revised, alternative version of "C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (Abridged)," HBS No. 607-006.) Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace