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- 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008
assessment and development. The (A) case describes the firm's strategic position as the "manufacturer" of three primary product lines—annuities, insurance, and mutual funds—which they sell to banks, broker/dealers, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Charlotte, which in 2014 owned and managed hospitals and acute care facilities in three states. In 2011, Carolinas launched Dickson Advanced Analytics, which incorporated complex clinical, financial, demographic, and claims data to develop analytical tools that would... View Details
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
honor code significantly reduced or eliminated unethical behavior. While dishonest behavior motivated moral leniency and led to strategic forgetting of moral rules, honest behavior motivated moral stringency and diligent recollection of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
need? What is the optimal setting and context in which they should be delivering care? What processes should they use? There are all sorts of operating managerial and strategic decisions that we haven't even... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
arises from behavioral biases and misperceptions of probability distributions. Finally, nonpecuniary taste-based factors may be important in motivating both the decisions to enter into and to persist in entrepreneurship. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
conflict between the old and the new. Successful CEOs first develop a broad, forward-looking strategic aspiration that sets ambitious targets both for innovation and core business growth. They then hold the tension between innovation unit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
which has employed team acquisition as a successful growth strategy for many years. The Quaker-founded firm’s compensation policies, strategic planning, consensus-based decision making, and even office décor... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Austin, explores the motivations behind such partnering.What motivates organizations to collaborate? It is important to understand the motivating forces behind the decisions of businesses and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to enter... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
Air pollution not only corrupts people’s physical health, but can also contaminate their morality. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53173 August 2017 Journal of Management Education Teaching Versus Living: Managerial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of reviews, what is the optimal way to construct an average rating? We offer a structural approach to answering this question, allowing for (1)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14
decisions were made in Redmond and managing an organization that was perceived as less strategic than its sister Microsoft India Development Center with which it shared the Hyderabad, India site. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53441 forthcoming Operations Research Letters Orienteering for Electioneering By: Kallenbach, Jonah, Robert Kleinberg, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial optimization problem that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
robust evidence that market leaders were significantly more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of e-buying but commensurately less likely to adopt the more radical practice of e-selling. The findings highlight the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of strategic next steps for the group.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
the dimensions of human behavior, decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement of our research assistant who has a theater academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
case outlines the decisions Rollins took in terms of leadership and other strategic matters and shows how the center is performing a year after its initial disappointing progress. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
School—Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright—show how a well-designed operations function can become a strategic competitive weapon. Their book is titled Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace