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- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52673 Harvard Business School Case 517-050 Beingmate Founded in 2002, Hangzhou, China–based Beingmate was a major producer of infant formula and related products in the high-demand Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817114-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-059 Central European Distribution Corporation: Hostile Takeover, Bankruptcy Makeover In early 2013, Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC), a large publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
Care Thaddeus Fulford-Jones and Eric Weiss, founders of healthcare technology startup Radial Analytics, have been busy developing a software program designed to save hospitals money and improve patient outcomes by producing customized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
designing a model where the full spectrum of your employees-not just the outstanding ones-will have no choice but to deliver excellence as an everyday routine. You get there by building a system that just doesn't produce anything else.... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
1997). The current model of performance, while having produced many improvements in performance during its 100-year reign, has been essentially exhausted, leaving in its wake little more than a labyrinth of explanations for human... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
Authors: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff, and David Yoffie Abstract In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
invested in analyzing and repairing the way the team draws on and uses everyone's contributions is well worth it. The team will produce more relevant, high-quality outcomes for the client, and all team members will feel more satisfied by... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
productivity: 15.6% higher h-indices, 11.7% more coauthors, 12.7% more research articles, and 25.1% more citations per scientist. Moreover, using natural language processing (NLP) techniques on the set of research abstracts produced among... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
worthy and also less unethical, and these judgments led them to act more unethically themselves. These vicarious effects were moderated by whether the miscreant was identified with a photograph and by the type of behavior. Psychological closeness also View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two types of customers: waste generators who pay for waste... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
everything I might have wanted, but the legislative process seldom produces that. Certain elements of this reform are positive and helpful, including the creation of a formal resolution authority and a systemic risk regulator; provisions... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
backroom stock for sale items missing from shelves, or even to scale and price produce items or grind A&P's bean coffees. Cleanliness and courtesy standards, freshness and quality standards, shelf-stocking and checkout standards, and... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
of the major accounting terms used by Mexican banks. The main purpose of this document is to provide a standardized guide to better understand financial information produced before and after the crisis, within the current context of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
MaterialsGoldwind USA: Chinese Wind in the Americas Regina M. Abrami, and Iacob Koch-WeserHarvard Business School Case 912-416 Many Chinese firms have struggled in the United States. Renewable energy is a fledgling, high-risk market. Can Goldwind USA, a leading View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Estimates produced using this instrument indicate that 10% greater foreign investment is associated with 2.6% greater domestic investment, and 10% greater foreign employee compensation is associated with 3.7% greater domestic employee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
presence of agency conflicts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50792 Harvard Business School Case 317-007 Fitbit In 2016, Fitbit remained the world’s leading producer of activity trackers—an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
asked about a policy problem. “Sometimes when the word ‘policy’ comes up, scholars feel they need to put on a different hat, which is much less rigorous,” he says. “But the truth is that the comparative advantage of scholars, in general, is in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
find that transparency, by visually revealing operating processes to both producers and consumers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne