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John D. Nichols
Though not a name brand, Illinois Tool Works, a manufacturer of component industrial parts, has been recognized by Wall Street and Fortune for superior financial and management performance. Much of that credit is due to Nichols. He... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 1991 (Revised April 1995)
- Teaching Note
Pepsi-Cola Fountain Beverage Division: Marketing Organization, Teaching Note
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
costs for resolving the dispute. We also find that the effect of contract structure on dispute resolution approach is moderated by the degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
Though he started his career at a roller bearing manufacturer, Sloan eventually sold the company to GM after realizing that the rapid growth of the automobile industry was essentially controlling his business. Sloan’s attention to... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value . Levy-Odom has found the experience to be a valuable one. “Being at HBS provided the framework to better coordinate all that we do at Time Inc. and how we present it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
structure is a textbook duopoly, they add, surrounded by a “political industrial complex” of special interests, donors, and lobbyists, resulting in competition that fails to deliver what citizens should... View Details
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Andrew Dervan
inefficiencies." Where Andrew breaks away from many other medical students, however, is in his commitment to doing something about it, to find ways to "fix the system." Applying insights from outside industries In his first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the United States. That trend will continue, they contend. Despite many of the recent excesses in the venture industry and the slide in the economy — and more specifically in the venture-drenched tech sector — Gompers and Lerner assert... View Details
- 11 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS
what you’re good at, what you like, what environments you enjoy working in, including what kind of people you enjoy interacting with. Consider the structure you’ve had in previous roles: did you have a formal mentor? Opportunities for... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
constantly evolving-the options facing Shapiro and HUGE must be considered in light of an industry structure that blurs the lines across competitors, complements, and clients and could easily shift for or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
2015 Journal of Financial Economics The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings By: Ivashina, Victoria, Benjamin Iverson, and David C. Smith Abstract—What is the ownership structure of bankrupt debt claims? How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
nurses and other team members). They found that while hierarchy structures were similar across all teams, the level of psychological safety varied dramatically from one team to another—and was directly proportional to the level of leader... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
firms in order to find new measures of strategy and to understand their linkages to organizational structure within such firms. It shows how the core knowledge required for decision making and the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
electricity and turned India into the world's largest tea producer during the nineteenth century. They built automobile industries in Latin America after World War II. And so on. Book Excerpt Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
more cheaply than the United States, Spar said, “The industry has been seeking and receiving protection for almost thirty years. Parts of the industry have already restructured and become quite competitive... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
congestion at airports and in the air. In Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management, a paper recently accepted for publication in Transportation Science and coauthored with Cynthia Barnhart of MIT and Dimitris... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne