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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories about some of the world's most successful entertainment brands,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the impact of self-service technology (SST) usage on customer satisfaction and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
budgets. These include affirmative budgeting (full influence), consultative budgeting (moderate influence), and authoritative budgeting (low influence). When organizations communicate that employees will be involved in budgeting,... View Details
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
global rather than merely local. The issue of limited resources and inefficient distribution is creating environmental and social problems respectively, that businesses can no longer afford to neglect/be indifferent to. Technological... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
exponential technological progress has led to a dramatic decrease in information constraints. In a range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced information costs enable organizations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
hospital. Community hospitals generally vehemently oppose their entry into a new area. What options does MedCath have? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-018 Ford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
the world after COVID-19 and will perhaps expand further. I believe that startups that offer technology and software that enable physicians to confidently practice medicine from afar will become more valuable. My sense is that this trend... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
risks. This shift is attenuated for firms with stronger technological capabilities and is more pronounced for firms whose home markets have weak IP systems. Using data from the global smartphone market, we find support for these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
would intrude ever more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to. Instead, the transformation is unfolding on a model of consumer empowerment, in which consumers use digital media to communicate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Huber returned to the company after graduation. He was running the commercial activities at the company's locomotive division when, in 1995, GM's vice chairman Harry Pearce asked him to head up a new initiative called Project Beacon. The general idea was to marry... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
technology uses words without photos to communicate. "Only the people who are willing to put themselves out there publicly in words to people who they may not know will use Twitter. Some people will find this incredibly appealing,... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
become known as "Silicon Valley" unique? Will Silicon Valley remain a vibrant community of technological innovation and economic growth, or will it decline like other previously thriving U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
by advances in communications and information technology and dramatic improvement in global logistics, fueled the outsourcing of jobs to emerging markets. More jobs disappeared as American companies opted... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to find a higher proportion of homophilous interactions within these organizational structures than across their boundaries. We test our theory in an analysis of the rate of dyadic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807111 OuterLink Corp. (A) Harvard Business School Case 806-059 Zero Stage Capital is addressing a troubled investment in OuterLink Corp., which has a capital deficit of $30 million and was written off by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon Publication:John Wiley & Sons, 2012 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002070.html... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design costs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
possible. Next time the target may not be Iran.) Getting back to my misstated question, none of you aimed your criticism at the technology, even lauding it, as Mark O'Connor did, as the "great equalizer." In Bev Stehn's words, "What is to be 'managed,'... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
respond rapidly whenever necessary. As information technology escalates the pace and complexity of business everywhere, managers can ill afford to operate according to the bureaucratic dictates of the past. As organizations become... View Details
Keywords: by Staff