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September – October 2011
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The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman

It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry

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August 1977 (Revised December 1986)
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We're Just Wasting Our Time

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January 1992
Teaching Note

Play Time Toy Company TN

By: Thomas R. Piper

Teaching Note for (9-292-003). View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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May 2023
Technical Note

Dynamic Pricing: Timing is Everything

By: Elie Ofek

This note provides a comprehensive exposition to the topic of dynamic pricing (whereby the fee customers are charged is time-dependent). It covers the motivation for firms to engage in dynamic pricing, provides a typology of the main formats dynamic pricing can take,... View Details

Keywords: Dynamic Pricing; Price

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January 2005 (Revised August 2005)
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Changing Times at the NBA

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Tonika Cheek-Clayton and Daniel Reed

David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), faces myriad challenges: globalization of product, young players entering the league, loss of fan base, etc. Stern must put together a plan for the Board of Governors that confronts these... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Sports; Competitive Strategy

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Working Paper

Developing Products on Internet Time

By: Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack

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24 Apr 2020
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Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times

15 May 2020
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Purposeful Leadership in a Time of Crisis

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FDA Review Time of New Drug Applications

Study of FDA Review Time of New Drug Applications (NDAs) between 1990-2004. Three main questions are addressed: How the optimal innovation strategy for firms is contingent upon firm status positions in the knowledge domain; how knowledge status both enables and... View Details

October 2012
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Honesty Requires Time (and Lack of Justifications)

By: Shaul Shalvi, Ori Eldar and Yoella Bereby-Meyer

Recent research suggests that refraining from cheating in tempting situations requires self-control, which indicates that serving self-interest is an automatic tendency. However, evidence also suggests that people cheat to the extent that they can justify their... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Cognition and Thinking

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02 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Gradualism in Monetary-Policy: A Time Consistency Problem?

Keywords: by Jeremy C. Stein & Adi Sunderam; Banking

2017
Working Paper

Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing

By: Samuel Antill

I develop a dynamic model of investment timing in which firms must first choose when to search for external financing. Search is costly and the arrival of investors is uncertain, leading to delay in financing and investment. Depending on parameters, my model can... View Details

Keywords: Real Options; Search And Bargaining; Time-varying Financial Conditions; Investment; Venture Capital; Mathematical Methods

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11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC, and how it works with the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Dec 2001
News

Navigating Success in Volatile Times

attendees that their most important "customers" are the people in their lives, and Saturday evening's keynote speaker, New York Times managing editor Gerald Boyd, underscored the need for courage, strength, and deeper self-knowledge in... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Finance

13 May 2013
News

Tied Together by the Times

says. And, as the 11 records that the class holds show, the classmates on the other end answer the call. Yanow believes the class's special bond is the result of his classmates' common experiences—growing up during the Depression, attending HBS between two wars—as well... View Details

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also leads to answers to the question... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Mar 2012
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One School at a Time

back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services