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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
share the remaining 20 percent among themselves. For investments below $2 million, the XTV principals had sole discretion in whether and when to invest. For investments over $2 million, an oversight group called the Management Board... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
positions. Not only did staff have more contacts, but they also were more likely to be brokers between individuals in discrete operations within the company as a whole. The bigger question was why that was the case. The researchers had... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
by specialty and discrete interventions. Third, prevention and screening can dramatically improve value, as does ongoing disease management to prevent recurrences and setbacks. Fourth, the only way truly to drive value is to measure... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
undertaken to analyze the financial returns of a set of early stage social-purpose companies that had received funding from a discrete group of individual investors. Q: How did the team determine how the companies had performed as a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
discrete industries. First, there's in vitro fertilization, probably the most obvious piece. This is a service industry, like medicine in general, which caters to infertile couples. Then there are what I call the component industries,... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with executives using View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
annual meeting, the majority of shareholders vote against the exclusive pay package. The B case compares the remuneration committee perspective (and their rationale for using discretion to award the bonuses) as well as the shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
the elementary level, Kim cites Khan Academy as a program that really helps students learn on their own time. By presenting bite-sized chunks of learning in hands-on videos, Khan allows students to work through discrete concepts as... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
people at more than one hundred organizations.) Before long, we discovered that something greater was afoot than what our original research design had allowed for. The field known as "communication," which had long been a discrete... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and the demand-induced death spiral, which is brought about by a shift in sales mix from labor intensive to technology intensive imaging services. In addition, this case offers an opportunity to develop the class discussion in multiple directions, at the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the collective interest levels of the angels can lead to a discrete change in the probability of funding for otherwise comparable ventures. We first show that angel funding is positively correlated with higher survival, additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
discrete version of our problem by reducing the problem to another combinatorial optimization problem known as Orienteering. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53414 November–December 2017 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
troubled financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs whose ex-CEO was the then Treasury Secretary. The U.S. government moves to dismiss the case arguing that it has wide discretion in times of crisis, but a federal judge allows the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
business and technology-related elements. It addresses the limitations of prior work, in that it i) is based upon the actual architecture "in-use" as opposed to planned or "idealized" versions; ii) identifies discrete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
where the firm chooses capacities in two technologies in stage one, demand uncertainty resolves between stages (as does emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade), and then the firm chooses production quantities. As such, we bridge the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed primarily to a shift in monetary policy towards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
evidence of the efficacy of problem solving when disclosing problem information. The method's application to 166 discrete scientific problems from the research laboratories of 26 firms is illustrated. Problems were disclosed to over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
spanning the careers of 3,884 academic life scientists. Using a combination of discrete time hazard rate models and fixed effects logistic models, we find that patenting events are preceded by a flurry of publications, even holding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne