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  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

1990s, many companies introduced ERP systems that captured data at the transaction level. It was natural to think how we could modify ABC systems to benefit from the ready... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 28 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

study was written by HBS professors Dennis Campbell and Srikant Datar, with Tatiana Sandino (HBS DBA '04) of USC's Marshall School of Business. "Franchising is a very observable, real choice that organizations make." -Dennis Campbell "The basic idea is to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 24 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact of debiasing this previously unexplored barrier of consumer decisions to "buy time" in a field experiment with a U.S.-based sharing economy company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Eliciting Advice Instead of Feedback Improves Developmental Input

By: Hayley Blunden, Ariella Kristal, Ashley Whillans, Jaewon Yoon, Hannah Burd, Georgina Bremner and Michael Yeomans
Most organizations encourage employees to provide feedback to one another to support learning, personal growth, and career advancement. However, employee feedback often fails to improve performance because it lacks concrete, specific guidance. We provide a temporal... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Personal Development and Career; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation
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  • 03 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

benefits, but any incentive system can be gamed. "Merchants that think they've found the secret to zero-risk marketing have not," Edelman says. It doesn't exist. View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing
  • Article

Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

  PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2006
  • HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

Director Masako Egawa (HBS MBA '86), working with research associates Chisato Toyama (HBS MBA '99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. This case challenges students to think about different systems of corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

transport/ride launched in 1967), and numerous airports. However, these systems were largely designed to move a large number of people on a fixed schedule along a track from point to point to point. In today's revival, people movers are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

approval," Trichakis says. "The Office of Civil Rights is involved too. Everyone is still in the loop of thinking about how the system should look: how many points for dialysis time, waiting time,... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • 14 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • February 2004
  • Case

Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion

By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
Human beings are driven by reasons and emotions. On the one hand, as rational choice theorists assert, human beings are resourceful and evaluative as they strive to maximize their own interests. An individual's interests can converge or diverge from the interests of... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Interests; Organizations; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • November 8, 2018
  • Article

Transitioning Payment Models: Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care

By: Thomas W. Feeley and Namita Seth Mohta
In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already happening. Respondents report that a quarter of... View Details
Keywords: Payment Methods; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Transformation
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  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

clinicians' working lives. Understanding the relationship between the four components, and between the operating systems for delivering care and learning from care, will be essential for care delivery organizations as they View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • fall 2008
  • Article

Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations

By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are... View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Operations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Perspective; Theory
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  • 02 May 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

what some might think is the most revolutionary concept in marketing to come along in a long time in a very matter-of-fact way. Bob Nemens commented, "Traditional marketers may be quick to dismiss Internet chatter as coming from the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

we are willing to contribute ideas in the workplace or try to compete for a promotion,” Coffman says. “If talented women in STEM aren’t confident, they might not even look at those fields in the first place. It’s all about how good we View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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