Publications

Educators

24 Aug 2013
News

Ballmer Exit Leaves Microsoft Searching for Hero in PC Slump

2014
Article

Notes from the Search for Deep Indicators in Services

By: James L. Heskett

Much of the research in the service sector over the last four decades has concerned itself with the search for deep indicators that explain service performance. This paper provides a brief retrospective of some of this research and illustrates the directions that this... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Performance; Service Industry

14 Jan 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Michael Schwarz

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 20 Nov 2023
Webinars: Career

Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Job Searching

Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details

November 2018
Supplement

Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

2003
Working Paper

Science as a Map in Technological Search

November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
Case

a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova

a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry

Educators

March 2002
Case

2002 Global Coffee Summit: Searching for Solutions

By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle

Global coffee leaders gathered in 2002 to develop alternative market-based approaches that would ensure a sustainable supply of coffee and address the social and ecological issues confronted by a global depression in coffee prices. View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Price; Food and Beverage Industry

Educators

Article

In Search of True Public Arts Support

By: Arthur C. Brooks

February 13, 2011
Article

Google's Search Gold Mine Could Tap Out

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Keywords: Technology; Digital; Services; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing

2014
Working Paper

Search Diversion and Platform Competition Online Appendix

By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien

June 2008
Article

Routine or Crisis: The Search for Excellence

By: Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt

April 2005
Supplement

Ilene Lang and the Catalyst Search (B)

By: Laura L. Nash and Myra M. Hart

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Service Industry

December 1994
Case

Search for the New Japan (long version)

Article

In Search of the Next "Killer App"

By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan

Keywords: Online Technology

April 2017
Article

Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude

By: M. Diane Burton and Tom Nicholas

The 1714 Longitude Act created the Board of Longitude to administer a large monetary prize and progress payments for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. However, the prize did not prohibit patenting. We use a new dataset of marine chronometer inventors to... View Details

Keywords: Prizes; Innovation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives