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  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2001 (Revised September 2022)
  • Case

Le Petit Chef

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Sandra J. Sucher and Suraj Rangashayi
Brigitte Gagne, Le Petit Chef's director of microwave R&D, is deciding on the product development agenda for next year. She has to decide which of the available projects to fund, and evaluate the overall portfolio of projects currently under development. The recent... View Details
Keywords: Production; Product Development; Projects; Planning; Research and Development; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Resource Allocation
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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

levels of the company, particularly from the CEO. Evaluate the company's other start-up efforts and how it handled projects that failed in some regard, said Jim Barron, vice... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Research Overview

Jillian has an interest in understanding the effect of high worker autonomy and uncertainty on operational metrics. Her research attempts to empirically explore the relationship between efficiency, resource utilization, and quality in hospital settings.... View Details

  • October 2004
  • Case

Continuing Transformation of Asahi Glass, The: Implementing EVA

By: Mihir A. Desai, Masako Egawa and Yanjun Wang
This case explores the use of EVA--economic value added--methodology at Asahi Glass. EVA is among the changes initiated by the CEO aimed at transforming Asahi Glass from a traditional Japanese company to a global firm. Other changes included a corporate reorganization... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Change Management; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Recruitment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation
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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

Project , Command , Esub Tue Dec 31 16:56:14: Submitted from host , to Queue , CWD , Output File , Error File , Notify when job begins/ends, 8 Task(s), Requested Resources , memory/swap limit enforced... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Managers’ Heuristics Affect R&D Performance Volatility? A Simulation Informed by the Pharmaceutical Industry

Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Gary P. Pisano; Pharmaceutical
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

from other firms, rather than developing new projects internally. Examining the channels behind this increase in R&D in-licensing, we explore heterogeneity in treatment effects and competitor spillovers.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

interconnectedness, and complexity. Despite the pressure, Jamie Dimon remained vocal in advocating for the value of a broad scope, large scale financial services firm. However, questions remained about the optimal scope of the bank View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

to cover; the patient population to be included; any exclusion criteria. Q: What is the best method for selecting a medical condition? A: When selecting a medical condition to examine via TDABC, the primary consideration should be clinical leadership; buy-in from the... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

that RCMs are more precise at allocating firm heterogeneous effects to model slopes and intercepts than standard regression models. We also discuss RCMs’ possible limitations due to sample size requirements,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

model incorporating this idea that predicts that although more ideas will be produced during slack time, they will have higher average complexity and perhaps even higher average value. Using data on 165,410 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... September 2016 (Revised October 2018) HBS Case Collection Springfield Hospital by Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan One of the key roles of costing systems is to support... View Details

    Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias?

    Co-authored by Feng Zhu

    Which source of information contains greater bias and slant-text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence? Do the costs of acquiring, storing, displaying, and revising information shape those... View Details
    • Web

    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    capacity cost rates to allocate resource costs, has become the gold standard in measuring the true costs of health care delivery and well described in a growing literature.... View Details
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

    By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
    Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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    • 31 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

    (A) A year after Norwegian grocery chain REMA 1000 adopted Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise social network, Chief Human Resource Officer Tore Høylie is asked to evaluate its impact on company culture View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman