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- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
a non-manufacturing setting we move beyond the artifacts and gain insight into the principles that may lead to improved performance. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the internal processes that the lean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
faculty members, led by an experienced professor, who teach the same subject and use the same cases. These groups meet regularly to analyze the cases and discuss classroom management. Detailed teaching notes present both the required View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
and style and meeting deadlines, six days a week, three cases a day. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, your Written Analysis of Cases paper had to go down the chute [at Baker Library]. If it was 6:01, that chute just discarded your work. I needed an... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
right industry and time to start new ventures. Entrepreneurs with demonstrated market timing skill are also more likely to outperform industry peers in their subsequent ventures. This is consistent with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater concentration is found in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
industry factors. The evidence on these interrelationships and the importance of multinationals to local economies suggests that global firms may be an important channel for transmitting economic shocks. This evidence also sheds light on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
industry experts who estimated the returns to be significantly lower than professional venture investing due to less investor diversification and capital limitations that prevent investment in follow-on rounds. Given this, the team... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
customer satisfaction, differences among customers account for 96%–97% of this variance, while differences among employees, processes, locations, and markets make up the remainder. Further analysis reveals that customers tend to report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been applied at several levels of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out of mean variance View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
specialist who is in charge of the privatization process for nearly two hundred Iraqi state-owned businesses, excluding the country’s oil industry and large utilities. HBS Students with Military Service in support of the Iraq and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the potential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft! Finally, the paper investigates the societal welfare consequences of OSS availability by comparing different industry structures (monopoly and duopoly). We find... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
interior. But no more. Since China was admitted to the WTO, many favorable trade policies have been extended to the interior of the country, Oberholzer-Gee explained. Moreover, the data analysis “does not allow you to predict a company’s... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance By: Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper complements the manager-centered analysis of dynamic capabilities with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
contemporary circumstances so as to be relevant for managers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52977 Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne