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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other diagnostic images. Increasingly,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a database of lobbying... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
coauthored the textbook and its updates with the late Sumantra Ghoshal (HBS DBA '86) and Paul W. Beamish of the University of Western Ontario. "The Japanese juggernaut had just come driving through the United States, challenging the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, teamed up with Gerardo Perez-Cavazos at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management and Caspar David Peter at the Rotterdam School of Management to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
extraordinarily difficult to transfer to other operations. We'll look at why that is so and extract some of the ideas that may be adapted for use in other operations. We will also look at AT&T's Universal credit card business, which... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan Aart Scholte, Cambridge View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
Sen, and Willy Shih Abstract—Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNone PublicationsChallenges in Managing Large Projects Editors:J. Ronald Fox and Donn B. Miller Publication:Defense Acquisition University Press, 2006 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
said. “I really wish the doctor would have just said, ‘Here is what we’re doing.’” To find out if other players would feel the same way, the researchers surveyed 74 baseball pitchers from universities in the United States and found that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015
815-085 Building an Integrated Biopharma Company: Crucell (A) By 2009, Crucell had become the largest biopharma company in the Netherlands and was a symbol of national pride. The case traces the evolution of the company from a university... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
situations as well.” The decision to study alumni connections was borne of the professors' personal school ties: both received their PhDs in finance from the University of Chicago. In 2007, each landed a position in the Finance Unit at... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
2001) Matthew S. Olson and Derek van Bever, Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing—Yours Doesn't Have To (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) James C. Collins and Jerry I Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
technology is now also used for assigning children to New York City high schools and to Boston schools at all levels. And many professional organizations, and universities and business schools, try to help set the recruiting "rules of... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
K. Kazanjian, 192-210. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006 Abstract To remain successful, companies must respond to the challenge of achieving continual internal or core growth. In this book chapter, we suggest that vendors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Ananth Raman of HBS and their colleague Anna Sheen McClelland recently completed a survey of 32 retail companies focusing on their practices and progress in four... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
amounts of information quickly and receive immediate feedback, including the cues that come from tone of voice and body language, the researchers say. That enables them to adjust their work and clear up misunderstandings. Choudhury and his fellow researchers—Jasmina... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the universal bank had long been disputed. After 2008, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession damaged many global and domestic financial services firms. While the government bailed out universal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
Timothy Clark. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Abstract This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne