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  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

built a high-end brand, the key decision in the case is whether to begin expanding the S'well product portfolio to the mass market. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-402 Alere The Board of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

http://hbr.org/product/Opening-the-Valve--From-S/an/415016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-023 Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

consumers use “smart” devices to discover online prices in stores. Our findings provide insights for managers on how and when self-matching can be an effective pricing strategy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53829 forthcoming... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

delivery around specific categories of disease. It provides an opportunity to evaluate BWH's approach to integration along all of these dimensions and to identify the nature of the tradeoffs that hospitals—specifically, academic medical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is solved,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

right solution for Bangladesh. He assembled a critical group of partners in a venture, GrameenPhone, which included Scandinavian telecom operators; Grameen Bank, the microfinance pioneer; Bangladesh Railways; as well as a Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

firm-level, and that recording back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change. Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2009
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“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

philosophical tone in his 1981 inaugural address when he famously observed: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Thereafter, regulatory minimalism and a "market knows best" mindset took hold in... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

solution to Japan's persistent low economic growth. Several decades of economic stagnation led Abe to spearhead a multi-faceted reform effort to shake off deflation and come to grips with Japan's large national debt and rapidly aging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could lead to actual treatments for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to take place, market designers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2005
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An Organization Your Customers Understand

to solve the organization structure problem. The solution will be derived through analysis of the first of our four Cs: customer definition. Using an "outside-in" approach, we will start by designing units that work most closely... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

through the lens of their mistaken theory, meaning a person may ignore or discard information her mistaken theory leads her to consider unimportant. We propose solution concepts embedding such channeled attention that predict when a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711452-PDF-ENG BlackRock Solutions Kenneth A. Froot and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 211-082 The BlackRock Solutions case examines the different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

exciting, but rather unorthodox, new savings product. Instead of paying interest, this product gives depositors the chance to win large cash prizes each month. Michael Jordan, CEO of the bank's Consumer Solutions Division, must decide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

for tracking the resources used by patients being treated for diverse medical conditions, as an input to a time-driven activity-based costing model. The results show considerable cost diversity across the five sites, but organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

along with solutions that have emerged from our research. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/03/the-new-science-of-viral-ads/ar/1 To Zap or Not to Zap: How to Insert the Brand in TV Commercials to Minimize Avoidance Authors:Thales S. Teixeira,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

optimization problems, or Internet applications where the goal is to find an acceptably good solution in a short amount of time, when a deterministic approach might be less fruitful or impractical. We aspire for students to recognize that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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