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- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
in K-12 education, has brought to a collaboration with Hewlett Packard (HP) high credibility and access to key curriculum decision makers in the public education system. A leading designer, manufacturer, and service provider of products... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
employees so they would be viable candidates for jobs long after they left the company. It developed systems to promote employee innovation as well as offering flexible work options such as part time work so employees could focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
their dominance has lulled them into somnolence. Private insurers could compete by reducing the estimated waste in the health care system of $900 billion; experts estimate that at least $250 billion could be saved without diminishing the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
and see a building before it exists." Africa needs more dreamers who feel empowered enough to produce their own blueprints for their societies to move forward, he said. "It is the production of the blueprint which is the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems generally: priorities and incentives, bureaucratic alignment, and transparency and monitoring. Using these dimensions, we first unpack the mechanisms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing technical support, veterinary... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
negotiations and poses an immediate tactical challenge in the context of the overall process. The (B) case describes the strategies, tactics, and results of these negotiations, along with Welz's broader insights into a more productive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicted relations between business and government. The book represents a unique comparative study of the complex and non-linear impact of globalization and the evolution of business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is asymmetric, with one large,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309093 Chronology of the Asian Financial Crisis Harvard Business School Case 708-001 In July 1997, Thailand became the first Asian "tiger" economy to abandon its fixed exchange rate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
automobiles; it was up to Huber to figure out what that meant. Primarily the GM leadership was looking to justify GM's earlier multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Hughes Aircraft (which included commercial satellites) and Electronic Data View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Whillans, and Frances Chen Abstract—The transition to university is a major life change wherein young adults' primary support system shifts from the family to peers. Can social integration (operationalized as the number of friends) during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace