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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
states. Landman has worked with health technology companies ranging from early stage to post-IPO, and he has been an active contributor to the Huffington Post, Xconomy, and the Health Information Management Systems Society focusing on... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down as a result of COVID-19. “The system works very well when the demand is stable,” notes Hanazawa. It was clear, however, that the supply... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood and extent of systemic financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
China. It first considers legal aspects of reverse engineering in strong property rights regimes like the United States as a way of unpacking the legal issues. It considers the importance of tacit or unexposed knowledge, and whether modularizing a View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the table in their insurance-plan choices, sometimes thousands of dollars. This is true both when consumers make active choices (e.g., they do not have a default plan) and when they make passive choices (e.g., they have a default plan). We discuss the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
emotions can play in negotiations. Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles Poorly designed leadership roles set up a family business for failure. John A. Davis offers a system that produces the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
CloudFlare.” Good deal: Matthew “It really pays to keep old business cards. Years ago I met Lindon Leader at a Chamber of Commerce event in my hometown of Park City, Utah. He’s designed logos for FedEx, Ryder trucks, Double-Tree Hotels,... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
6000 citizens were incarcerated in and around New Orleans without representation and with all official records destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Professor Sullivan designed an indigent defense delivery system... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
of power that is relatively low cost, predictable, and sustainable. The exhaust stream also includes carbon dioxide, and Amager Bakke began piloting a carbon capture system in 2021. The current system can... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
constraints of vertical integration. As with IDe or deNovis, they create system solutions by combining their specialized assets with complementary products and platforms provided by other niche players and keystones. They embrace the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 28 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Sierra Smith Talks Her Fashion Startup Internship
with Catherine on what we determined as the biggest opportunities. This resulted in building an inventory management system and running a seed fundraising effort. What was your favorite part of working for Plan de Ville? The best part of... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
don’t do what they were designed to do. It is just that drugs have always been designed around the “average patient,” who doesn’t really exist. In an increasing number of diseases, beginning with cancer and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
provider, or store more data in the cloud. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 916-029 Incentive Systems This note serves as a supplement to any course on incentive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
size fits all' legislation." All of this will take time. Adrian Gonzalez commented that "There's a limit to what can be accomplished ... because today's products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains were not designed with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
be poor, unappreciated, frustrated.’ He painted a very unappealing picture, but it didn’t add up. Mrs. Gbayisomore helped me to learn things that made me smart in school. I knew I wanted to fix the system someday. I didn’t know whose job... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
controller business from the migration of value to software from hardware, the scope expanded radically as the company completed the acquisition of UGS. It was then able to articulate a complete roadmap from computer-aided product inception and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
people are so fun and engaging.” Oakes, who studied architecture as an undergraduate at Rice University, says she’s always been interested in the link between a project’s design and its social impact. Her decision to attend HBS resulted... View Details
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
for two completely different reasons. The first is a change in technology that reduces the value of co-location (stickiness). This tends to lead to the decoupling of design and production activities and to a broad geographic diffusion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne