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  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

closely tied to its parent company—DaVita provided dialysis services to patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and Rx supplied medications to ESRD patients—while Paladina's connection to DaVita was less obvious. If Golomb took the job, what could he do to make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

(VM) as its Alpha Vendor, but the outdated industry pricing model created perverse incentives and could not capture O&M's costs. Together, O&M and VM created an activity-based pricing model: Total Supply Chain Costs (TSCC), which incented both companies to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

Industry Harvard Business School Case 507-021 ViaGen has invested heavily to develop cloning technology for the livestock industry. Cloning has the potential to significantly improve the genetics of livestock, leading to higher quality meat, healthier animals, and more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

global competition and efficient markets. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407022 Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

company's level of productivity (number of barrels), efficiency (cost per barrel), and reliability (production "up" time) came to exceed the industry's previous benchmark. Two of the company's newer platforms had been designed... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

in the development of what economists term "agglomeration economies" in the regions with the greatest venture capital activity. The efficiency of the venture capital process itself has been greatly augmented by the emergence of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

at maximum efficiency because they didn't have much competition from abroad, but given the environment within South Africa, the strongest ones had come to survive and existed in the form of large conglomerates. When the economy opened up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

the circumstances leading up to the Boeing Company's decision to spin-off its Wichita Division. This case is intended to be taught with two notes: "On the Use of Capital Efficiency Metrics," HBS No. 612-034, and "Modularity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Many markets have "unraveled" and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved difficult to measure and identify the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

facilitate efficient information sharing but can also increase the possibility of favoritism. Using the investment choices of mutual funds in China, we test whether funds with close ties to their investees make timelier investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

to be taken for granted, regardless of their efficiency implications. However, the institutional perspective does not address the fundamental issue of business strategy necessary to explain the persistence of substantially different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Documents progress, including organizational efficiencies gained that include consolidation of health care facilities, and illuminates leadership actions that facilitate this progress. Clearly, many challenges still lie ahead. Near the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

likely to stay employed and in professions where they want to develop a career. For the government, Vallée recommends, “Go big, as the efficiency of this tool is proven, while staying attentive to crafting the most appropriate design to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

agreements. In September 2008, Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faces an inflection point concerning his leading technology, genes for Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) in rice. He can determine a price to charge for NUE seed based on savings to... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

between information and accountability. Sharing a River among Satiable Countries Authors:Lars Ehlers and S. Ambec Periodical:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We consider the problem of efficiently sharing water from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

instruments (including price-setting) to implement desired outcomes. Non-price instruments were very much at the core of MSP strategies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-061.pdf Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

see whichever physician is on duty. The best family doctors often aren’t accepting new patients. Health care is a local business, travel is global. Hotel consumers have vast numbers of options and no hotel is permanently closed to new customers; the View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

they reported that "Without exception, these (resource management) activities are distributed more widely across the organization than is usually imagined posing huge problems where coherence is a central requisite for efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

more efficient at slow thinking by improving processes for deliberation and making decisions. Do you agree with what Kahneman implies here? Does bureaucracy have its advantages? Is this one of them? What do you think? To Read More:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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