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- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
commercial implementations of these practices and then identify their effects on competition. I conclude that Google's tying tactics are suspect under antitrust law. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
past year. Now, in March 2009, the bank is faced with several choices as a result of the new reforms spawned from the financial crisis: the FDIC's Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program and the U.S. Treasury's Capital Purchase Program. Additionally, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
care. Challenges and hurdles to implementation are described for both the health plan and the IPU. Provides detailed data to allow students to evaluate success, identify current challenges, and recommend improvements to the integrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
JCI is facing decisions regarding implementation of its business strategy, wondering if now is the time to diversify its service offerings. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805119 Kendall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
health and financial savings. It's not always easy to implement behavioral economics techniques in a way that properly incentivizes people to change their behavior. One thing is sure, however. When they are applied correctly, those... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Students need to be aware of different country conditions, demands on implementation of different strategies, and impact on culture. Also discusses energy performance contracting in the context of making India's energy generation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
make exactly that happen: a process tested successfully by BCG teams in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A process I have seen implemented with good and not-so-good managers; on big and small teams, with tight... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market indications of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
product, it can affect the entire supply for that brand. China implemented stricter food safety laws in April 2015, but the country may not have enough qualified enforcement staff. And inspectors don’t always enforce regulations as... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
contemporary leaders, he selects transparency as his tool. He is, however, unique in adopting a highly nuanced approach to implementing transparency. In the process, he not only leads a fantastic organizational turnaround but also helps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
implemented pretty quickly by command—acquisitions, divestitures, real estate purchases, layoffs. Long marches take time and the involvement of many people who must produce new elements and coordinate their actions before the change can... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
June 2012 working paper, Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program. Tucker is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit, and the Marvin Bower Fellow at HBS.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack Welch's thinking at General Electric... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
interactive online demonstration enables first-hand exploration of the parameter space (www.mpmlab.org/groups), and available source code (supplementary materials) provides a guide to implementing psychological agent-based models.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
information. We implement an experiment where senders are required to report their private information truthfully but can choose how complex to make their reports. We find that senders use complex disclosure more than half the time. Most... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
learned, take action based upon these lessons, then adapt and iterate and react to what they observed." Enter FIELD. First proposed at the end of 2010, the idea was so enthusiastically embraced by incoming Dean Nitin Nohria that he challenged faculty to View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809163 Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 710-407 Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace