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- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
operations traditionally specialize in portions of the planning activities, which results in conflicts over expectations, preferences, and priorities. We report findings from a detailed case analysis of a successful supply chain planning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807145 Micro Insurance Agency: Helping the Poor Manage Risk Harvard Business School Case 307-089 The notable success of insurance products for low-income clients of its microfinance network leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/programs/crisis-leadership/Working%20Together%20in%20Crises--CRJ%20March%202012.pdf Capturing History: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 Authors:Moss, David, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
Garvin and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 311-008 In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm they had built View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
was uncomfortable with many of the assumptions being made, because they had a blame-the-victim quality that I didn't like and I didn't identify with. I was trying to speak out about that, and as a sociologist I saw lots of structural issues that weren’t being... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
OrthoChoice: Bundled Payments in the County of Stockholm (B) By the end of 2008, all major hospitals (one of which was private) and three private specialized orthopedic centers signed OrthoChoice contracts. In 2009, hip and knee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
prescriptions for companies, investors, and policymakers seeking ways to improve the industry's performance. According to Pisano, the biotech industry's problems stem from its special character as a science-based business. This character... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
should consider creating additional pooled early-stage investment vehicles to take advantage of the specialized expertise of some of its members who have been professional investors, and to create some diversification for its members. IC... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
instrumental assistance, such as loans of cash, to psychosocial assistance, such as friendship and caring. I observed that these helping relationships all shared a similar characteristic: all of these men had worked at Baxter. I began to think and write about this as a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
assuming superior productivity of one vintage over another, we examine contingency effects on productivity by heterogeneity in prior specialized knowledge bases in complementary human capital and provision of concurrent expert advice.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract asbestos-related diseases, such as mesothelioma and lung cancer. Nine years later, Grace is poised to emerge from bankruptcy with a plan of reorganization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
except in special circumstances. What alternative do you propose? A: Tagging is such a central implication of the standard model that, as tax scholars, we really must be able to explain its general rejection in real-world tax systems. If... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
control and agenda setting. In the special case of mutually incompatible control systems, when top managers must trade off relevance for appropriateness (or the other way round), their choice of interactive control will be driven by what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
wreck would have been assembled. Now, Andy does have a special talent in getting people who don't like one another very much to work together. But that board was too far gone. The interpersonal conflict was just too great. I think he... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
specialization. However, in-house staff are more successful at identifying and excluding affiliates whose practices are viewed as "borderline" (albeit still contrary to merchants' interests), foregoing the efficiencies of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
operating business, like a specialized business field, so they went to companies like Procter or McKinsey, because that was where they could develop more business skills while they hung out and waited for their entrepreneurial... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
case puts special emphasis on the strategic drivers for business consolidation and combination in an environment of increased competition, trends toward self-indexation, and growth of indexing at a global scale. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
accounting standards to argue that when the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable to outsiders and with little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne