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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
around the most effective delivery of English language learning. This content and platform combination allows the company to deliver all content in a format personalized to meet individual needs. RelayRides Shelby Clark , MBA 2010 Nabeel... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Describes TelePizza, Spain's leading chain of pizza restaurants and delivery services. TelePizza has experienced rapid growth to 500 stores since its creation in 1987. The company went public on the Spanish stock market in late 1996.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
P/E industries, which have a negative valuation change in the year after the investment. 2006 New England Journal of Medicine Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading By: Bohmer, Richard M.J. Abstract—More effective models of care View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
thing you think of is mobile-first, but both of you chose to go desktop-first. I’d love to hear why. MA: We’re actually platform-agnostic, although in many ways we’re mobile-first; we just chose a different delivery mechanism as opposed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
highest-quality, lowest-price source, and that is often overseas. We buy locomotives primarily from General Electric; we’re taking delivery of fifty new units this year.” In short, the freight-rail business is humming, and that has Ward... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
conduct was valued, manage reputation risks by meeting customers and demonstrating the Mahindra Group's commitment, and restore faith within customers through newfound business models of delivery and engagements. As Nayyar reflected on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
team familiarity and variation in experience, we see a complementary effect on measures of delivery performance (i.e., a project being delivered on time and on budget). In team familiarity, our paper identifies one mechanism for capturing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of lost opportunities than an effective delivery system that appropriately serves and rewards all participants. Powerful channel members routinely... View Details
- January 2018
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Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Education Industry; United States; Canada
Groysberg, Boris, Matthew G. Preble, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 418-011, January 2018.
- 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4
to develop Alfred’s routes and respond to customer requests in conjunction with other service providers, for example grocery delivery services, in what the founders describe as their "B2B2C" business model. Alfred won the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
faculty are heavily invested in the design of courses and then guide others, perhaps alums or skilled adjuncts, in the delivery of project-based learning." Faculty Committee Studies Options The School's next steps are now in the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
50 hand looms distributed to the region with training courses organized to teach the craft. The second phase will include more sophisticated weaving loom deliveries and the creation of more formalized workshops to allow for carpet... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale). Looking at data from delivery orders, we find that lower-rated restaurants also increase prices in response to minimum-wage increases. Overall, our analysis also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
Project Complexity and Systems Integration: Constructing the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games By: Davies, Andrew, and Ian Mackenzie Abstract—Our study of the London Olympics 2012 construction programme showed that systems integration is one of the major... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
the macroeconomic potential-for incomes, productivity, and delivery of critically needed services-is huge. A call for "better management" may sound prosaic, but given the global payoffs, it's actually quite radical. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
before (as Apple did with its iPod and iTunes electronic entertainment delivery system), or serve an entirely unaddressed customer base (as Tata Motors is doing with its Nano—the $2,500 car aimed at Indian families who can't afford any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
what's really the job is to oversee a production from start to finish. But really, when you're deep into the production process, to hand over the keys to a director and then continue to work with that director and the whole production crew all the way through final... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
in clandestine seizure of Iraq’s off-shore oil terminals and cleared Iraqi waterways for delivery of humanitarian aid. Service from September to December 2001 (off Iraq, Afghanistan) and September 2002 to April 2003 (off Iraq). Awarded... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
Kulp, and Taylor Randall Publication:Supply Chain Management Review 11, no. 4 (May/June 2007): 18-74 Abstract The article determines the effectiveness of incentives designed to improve inventory and delivery performance, through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace