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- 18 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 18, 2008
traditional paradigm of service-level agreements (SLAs), while sufficient for Infosys' needs early on, is not able to achieve the level of understanding that transformational partnerships require. Infosys applies the principles of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
whether media outlets are favoring their own authors because these are the authors that their readers prefer or simply because they are trying to collude. We provide a test to distinguish between these two potential mechanisms and present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
socialization that focused on organizational identity (emphasizing pride from organizational affiliation) and (b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study whether stock indexes can be a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds the most value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
candidates into development. However, several questions related to the integration of Aurora into Vertex were still unresolved, the most pressing being Aurora's major collaboration with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). Were venture philanthropy and foundation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
manufacturing new mechanical or scientific instruments. And the city has always had a revolutionary streak, with movements for women's suffrage, antislavery, and the American Revolution itself all being launched from its streets. Georges... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a field increasingly built on international cooperation and the... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop at age 11. As a teen, he began... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment
issues that should be left to government? Ince: One of the profound changes over the last 25 years has been the gradual shift of power from the public to the private sector. The assumption has been that the private sector can do it better, and the market View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
Review (forthcoming) Abstract Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the legal system. This article seeks to identify the alternative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
higher bonus." By contrast, in the traditional mode, where the salon employs the stylists, the competitive pressure is absent, so the salon would have to pay a higher bonus in order to motivate them to the same extent. Thus, this View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructuring. The bankruptcy of JAL would be the largest ever for an industrial firm in Japan's history. The case introduces the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
antagonistic, but it needs to become a more socially conscious, collaborative exercise. Businesses should look beyond the dry mechanics of "running the numbers"—still relevant but no longer sufficient—and recognize that... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
mechanism works something along the following lines: if you look at one pair of shoes, it's hard to evaluate the quality of those shoes," Bohnet explains. "You will be much more likely to go with stereotypes or heuristics or... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Flip Klijn Abstract We study comparative statics of manipulations by women in the men-proposing deferred acceptance View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
"contamination" of the social technology. This stands in contrast to the common approach in acquisitions to integrate and rationalize the assets into the new owner's systems, structure, and culture. Some of the specific View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
some time in training before they can legally sell their services. These requirements are meant to screen out low quality providers. So fundamentally, occupational licensing exists to increase consumer trust in service providers, just like online reputation View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
shuttle disaster to explore the relationship between data visualization, effective communication, and decision-making. Students review and analyze excerpts from the 13 charts engineers presented to NASA executives the night before the launch about past launch... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman