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DEA Model with Shared Resources and Efficiency Decomposition

By: Yao Chen, Juan Du, H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proved to be an excellent approach for measuring performance of decision making units (DMUs) that use multiple inputs to generate multiple outputs. In many real world scenarios, DMUs have a two-stage network process with shared input... View Details
Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Intermediate Measure; Performance Efficiency
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors

By: Jianxi Luo, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney and Christopher L. Magee
Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This paper investigates the transaction networks of two large sectors in Japan at a single point in time. In... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Market Transactions; Networks; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
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  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

instability in Latin America and Russia give fodder to the global skeptics. Why do you advocate a more historically measured view of globalization? A: Accounts of the cross-border integration of markets have tended to get very wrapped up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2012
  • Article

The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors

By: Jianxi Luo, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney and Christopher L. Magee
Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two large sectors in Japan at a single point in time.... View Details
Keywords: Transactions; Hierarchy; Industry Architecture; Innovation; Networks; Market Transactions; Vertical Integration; Industry Structures; Innovation and Invention; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
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  • April 2003
  • Article

The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
We study the prices paid for basic inputs during a crackdown on corruption in the public hospitals of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during 1996 97. We find a well-defined, negative effect on the measures used to capture corruption. Prices paid by hospitals for... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Compensation and Benefits; Accounting Audits; Buenos Aires
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  • Research Summary

Delegation of Authority in Oligopoly

This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper... View Details

  • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Supplement

Genzyme Center (C)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Green Technology Industry
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  • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Supplement

Genzyme Center (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Green Technology Industry
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  • September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

Genzyme Center (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Green Building; LEED Rating System; Economic And Environmental Performance; Program Evaluation And Assessment; Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards; Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry
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  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

illustration of that point; BP is very profitable, but there is official evidence that it continues to compromise safety.) Gerald Nanninga, on the other hand, argued that profit is a default measure, commenting that "It is easier to View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

intraorganizational email networks. This is significant, given concerns that remote work might lead to siloed email networks, a pattern that might affect collaboration and innovation. Workers in the hybrid category also produced more novel emails and email attachments,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

intermediate term, we will see companies that rely on global supply chains be hurt. Once companies run through their existing safety stocks of raw materials or parts provided by a far-flung supplier base, they may face challenges filling... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Nov 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

the world of soccer nowadays looks nothing like the one he started in as a coach at United 26 years ago. Sir Alex has embraced new technologies and new approaches, hiring sports scientists on his staff, and adopting new ways of measuring... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

Abstract—We investigate whether top managers affect the performance of large public sector organizations. As our case study we examine CEOs of English public hospitals, which are large, complex organizations with multi-million turnover. We study the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

like exports that can also be driven up by policies that do not raise productivity or long-term prosperity. For policy makers, this suggests that each individual measure under consideration needs to be tested as to whether it improves... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

cross-group network effects are neither necessary nor sufficient for an organization to be a MSP. Second, our definition emphasizes the difference between MSPs and alternative forms of intermediation such as "re-sellers," which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

the investor has seen before. In many instances the banks are accepting investments from qualified individuals—people with a net worth of more than a certain amount. But the net worth measure is somewhat elastic, and smaller investors are... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

the individual work activities that create intermediate products, services, and information. In essence then, the people who work in an organization that produces something are simultaneously engaged in collaborative production and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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