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- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
physician. A growing number of providers have begun to address several of the imperatives, but few, if any, providers are currently addressing all of them. The shift to a value-based model is self-reinforcing. As more of these imperatives... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a centralized facility where it... View Details
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Connecticut—and developing an impact model for transforming communities Patch Work How John Jameson (MBA 1991) and Winning Connections harnessed the enduring political power of a phone call Complete Table of Contents December 2024 Back at... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model of how companies develop along the technological frontier—from... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
IBM's "Radical Collaboration" model has been an innovative approach to meeting the challenges of the huge R&D and capital investments that are needed to stay competitive in the global semiconductor industry. This View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
her Bank One account. "It is not uncommon for new delivery systems to compete with old ones," notes Dwight Crane. "But the Wingspanbank model takes that notion to unique extremes." Bank One realized that one way to beat — or at least... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
traffic, and large check sizes, because as Michael pointed out, you’re feeding a family. KP: In my opinion, the model for third-party delivery is broken and exists only because it’s been subsidized. I think... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
office, I noticed this large poster board covered in Post-Its that had all these details about the user experience of food stamp recipient in California. It was really complicated. Can you walk me through what I was looking at? Ingersoll:... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
firm.” “In developing economies, we have to reexamine the fundamental assumptions of what makes a good firm.” Realigning Priorities Other participants also remarked that the Asian economic crisis called for a reorientation of research priorities. Although the breakup... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
offerings and easily decide to close her Bank One account. "It is not uncommon for new delivery systems to compete with old ones," notes Dwight Crane. "But the Wingspanbank model takes that notion to unique extremes." Bank One realized... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
saw this effect in the modeling world, but I wanted to test it in the real world,” says Chung, an assistant professor. “The best way to do that was to perform a field experiment.” For real-world proof of how quotas affect sales... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
of McAfee and EMC. “Security people recognize they are in the business of pattern recognition. It has happened before, but in a much more human way.” BrightPoint’s business model is built on sharing. The company makes software platforms... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the 'Net, said Iansiti, is toward a... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market participation. We find a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
Marshall, fashion model Karlie Kloss, and “Magic Mike” star Cody Horn, have attended the program, sharing business challenges and contract strategies in the same room with mid- and senior-level executives who work for studios, networks,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
have been largely ineffective as they failed to address the root causes of the problems and have dealt instead with micromanaging and inspecting providers and forcing process compliance as opposed to achieving outcomes and results. The... View Details