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- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer Second." Can be used in strategy, change management and leadership courses. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
additively separable in its state variables, leading to conquering the curse of dimensionality and the opportunity to manage the supply chain using independently acting managers. We develop conditions under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
hierarchy than the automotive sector due to the existence of numerous interfirm transaction cycles. Transaction cycles in turn can only arise if a subset of firms have two-way "vertically permeable boundaries." Such firms (1) participate in multiple stages of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
instead reflect more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-061.pdf Alignment in Cross-Functional View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49606 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Can Analysts Assess Fundamental Risk and Valuation Uncertainty? An Empirical Analysis of Scenario-Based Value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
These models offer very different value propositions. Firms allocate resources into distinctively different processes, and they earn returns using parallel but different profit models. Yet while most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
professor Tom Eisenmann, who also serves on the board of OneMain.com, one of the nation's ten largest Internet service providers, and on the advisory boards of many Internet start-ups. Eisenmann's definition of the get-big-fast strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
eligible electorate. To win the general, assuming a 60 percent voter turnout, he'll need around five times as many customers to close the deal. Conventional political wisdom argues that Trump has to soften his tone, drop the ad hominem... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
coordinating choices throughout the value chain while giving students a sense of how competitive dynamics work. A dashboard from the Strategic Brew simulation. Two years and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
which collects and parses shipping information from US Customs and Border Protection. "From there we simply tested: If you have a lot of one country's ethnic makeup around you,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
different markets with different customers and employ different business models than those traditionally successful in the established organization, they are typically undervalued by that organization.... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
values and pay them fairly, it seems an interesting proposal for both the company and the individual." Juan Manuel Salas Guevara commented that the challenge in Holacracy... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
significant reputational and legal costs. Aiming for too short a time horizon. Managers sometimes need to run experiments for weeks or months to fully understand both their short- and long-term results, Luca... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
caused by information overload, and an increase in employees' ability to respond readily to customer needs. Inclusion: At its best, interpersonal conversation is an equal-opportunity proposition. It invites... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
models? A: I am writing a case on Farmacias Similares, a pharmacy chain in Mexico aimed at the low-income sector. Any medicine on its shelf is at least 30 percent cheaper than in traditional drugstores. It also has a medical clinic next... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne