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- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
downtime. Departmental specialists can assist customers during busy periods and order merchandise and arrange their sections during slack hours. The results? Customers receive... View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
picturesque suburb. Instead, global workplace surveys portray a generation that yearns for more flexible work arrangements and prioritizes work-life balance over career progression. Millennials want to... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
to all but guess inventory levels and locations across the supply chain at any point in time. This is because there is no agreement on something as simple as how a part number is defined or how inventory... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
managers' influence activities. An explicit focus on toolmaking extends accounting research that has hitherto focused attention on the structural arrangements and interpersonal connections when explaining... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Presidential Adviser
When President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) went on the road in early January to promote his stalled economic policies, he was accompanied by his top economic adviser, Allan Hubbard (MBA ’72). It’s Hubbard’s job on such trips to sit down with the local media View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
the better off you are. More generally, being as careful as you can be with resources, and flexible in terms of the types of arrangements that you are willing to enter into, are particularly important in an... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
companies to share both risk and reward on specific projects. But how do they define borders in the essentially borderless world of science? Anna Protopapas Part of the trick is to agree to boundaries wherever possible in the initial... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
the world became adept at working from home. In “Zoom forever” speculation, many companies are now planning to continue this arrangement after the pandemic, and a majority of workers say that this sounds... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
trusted regulatory environment: Taking a page from the playbooks of Singapore and Switzerland, both KAEC and Phu My Hung worked within national and provincial frameworks to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
direct or indirect? Are agreements constructed from general principles "down" or from specific provisions "up"? And so on. The bulk of this essay develops these two points but with some... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
continued, and environmental groups led a global boycott of paper producers that worked with local logging companies. In the late 1990s, negotiations began between the logging companies and the environmental... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
set out to surmount the Soconusco's geographical isolation. He sent surveyors to assess the region, he negotiated the approval of an international port, and he arranged for an international shipping company... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
expert and crowd preferences might be expected to differ greatly. We instead find substantial agreement between the funding decisions of crowds and experts. Where crowds View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
case is based have been disguised. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-026 The TTIP: Bridging the Transatlantic Economy In 2016, the United States and the European... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
agreement (one denying Iran what Graham Allison calls an "exercisable nuclear option"). Credibility will be difficult since Iran has often ignored U.S. and allied "red lines." To boost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
stay away from the small business marketspace. The company inked distribution and implementation agreements with the same IT consulting firms that had served as such capable channel partners for SAP's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
construction consultancy firm Davis Langdon through a major organizational change in Europe and the Middle East. In the past, compensation arrangements had not incentivized partners to collaborate across the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
advancement, a retirement plan and other benefits, along with life in a picturesque suburb. Instead, global workplace surveys portray a generation that yearns for more flexible work arrangements View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
introduced Koehn to Gayle King, a close friend of Winfrey's and the editor-at-large of O, The Oprah Magazine. King was delighted by the case in progress, and arranged an... View Details