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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
collaboration is becoming a new and important source of competitive advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Explicating Lean Principles by Examining Indian Software Services Authors:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-040_96933ceb-3097-4432-97d1-0b32625889f9.pdf January 2014 Harvard Business Review Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy By: Ready, Douglas A., Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas Abstract—When most of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left many without any access to View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
repertoire of personal qualities, including qualities that run counter to conventionally masculine scripts. Our findings point to the mutability of masculine identity as a social status achievement and to how organizations can disrupt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim testified before the Committee on... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
manufacturing compliance services company to the U.K. and Europe. He has to decide whether to hire Wayne Snelgrove and how to define the scope of his responsibilities. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
commitment. “If I can support doctoral students, they will go on to teach hundreds if not thousands of students and impact even more people through their research.” On the topic of organizational behavior, Nadler emphasizes the evergreen View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that... View Details
- 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
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract—We study... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
nature of accounting standards proposed between 1973 and 2007. Among other results, we find that length of service on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
government relations is part of the inner circle. You can look at Turkcell and see it as a typical emerging-market story. Government intervention is everywhere. Regulators even set prices, service by service. The competition is tightly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
Graduate School of Business Harvard Business School Case 308-010 In fall 2007, Stanford Graduate School of Business adopted a new curriculum that it heralded as a "revolutionary change in management education." The new approach aimed at increasing the level... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
delivery systems take advantage of new approaches for interacting with patients. Historically, telemedicine has been seen by many health care systems as a source of competition; my hope is that more systems will start to think about telemedicine as a View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
private-labeled digital devices at competitive prices. Yang credited Amazon for the company’s success. In addition to Amazon’s established infrastructure that helped it save on retail and logistics costs, “the key to building high quality... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne