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  • 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

  Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007

percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream). However, orders placed for delivery tomorrow versus two days View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

creating offices with the specific task of promoting water innovation. “Singapore has roughly the same GDP as just Los Angeles alone. Yet, since 2002, the country has spent over $670 million in over six... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

revolve around the production, supply, maintenance and logistics for energy. Brazil Energy Biomass started planning for COVID-19 safety protocols before the country was caught... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 29 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

across the country. How to juggle the challenge of developing a country of 1.4 billion people while being pressured to achieve a net zero target? As we explored India during our ten days View Details
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-047 Carolinas HealthCare System: Consumer Analytics In 2014, Dr. Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portend a future of increased human capital outflows from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Gilmartin Symptoms of an ailing health care system are everywhere, he says. For one thing, there are huge national, geographic variations in the way we care View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

Times were hard for Webvan this year. Like other online grocers and delivery services that hit the screen in 2001—among them, Homegrocer, Kozmo, and Streamline—Webvan finally... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2023 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023

By: Debora Spar, Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas
Chile, often considered among Latin America's greatest economic success stories, suffered a shocking wave of protests in October 2019, as its citizens demanded reforms across healthcare and education systems, and protested inequality and rising costs of living. As... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Public Opinion; Equality and Inequality; Public Administration Industry; Chile; Latin America; South America
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  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

cash flow to ensure this. Evidence shows that there are limits to venture capital as a solution to the funding gap, especially in countries where public equity markets for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

natural gas that were burdened with highly inefficient delivery systems. In time, the company supported his basic concept with EnronOnline, a Web-based trading platform that instantly became the world's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
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By: Antonio Moreno
One major theme of Professor Moreno’s research has been retail channel integration and so-called “omnichannel retail.” In omnichannel retail, retailers provide their customers with a shopping experience that may involve different channels in a way that aims to be... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel; Omni-channel; Omnichannel Retail; Omnichannel Retailing; Retail; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Management; Technological Innovation; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Logistics; Product; Product Design; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Information Technology; Internet; Online Technology; Technology Adoption; Technology Platform; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Europe; Spain; Latin America
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

recognized. But the nature of these institutions has been very crudely defined. A whole body of research has unfavorably compared Latin American institutions with those in North America. The law and finance literature, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

able to sustain large businesses in those countries even in the postwar era of hostility to foreign multinationals. It argues that the explanation is multi-causal. Unilever... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

government's efforts to drive and sustain growth. In How Countries Compete, Richard Vietor sheds light on ways in which governments can best set direction and provide a healthy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

the unconscious thought condition compared to both conscious thought and mere distraction. As there were no differences in sequence memory for the film, it remains unclear what mechanism was responsible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel