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- December 2012
- Background Note
Jefferson County: Specific Swap Detail
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow? View Details
Keywords: Local Government; Political Process; Bankruptcy; Debt Management; Financial Planning; Financial Management; Urban Development; City; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Alabama
Bergstresser, Daniel, Randolph Cohen, and Jeff Klein. "Jefferson County: Specific Swap Detail." Harvard Business School Background Note 213-061, December 2012.
- 07 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
- Fast Answer
India - Industry specific research
Where can I find industry associations or organizations for India?
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- Research Summary
Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's Hypothesis Reconsidered
A point repeatedly stressed by transaction cost economics is that the more specific the asset, the more likely is vertical integration to be optimal. In spite of the profusion of empirical papers supporting this prediction, recent surveys and casual observation... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
Jensen, Michael C., and William H. Meckling. "Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-025, September 2009.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's Hypothesis Reconsidered
By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier
A point repeatedly stressed by transaction cost economics is that the more specific the asset, the more likely is vertical integration to be optimal. In spite of the profusion of empirical papers supporting this prediction, recent surveys and casual observation suggest... View Details
Ruzzier, Christian Alejandro. "Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's Hypothesis Reconsidered." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-119, April 2009.
- Web
1.4 Academic Program Specifics | MBA
1.4 Academic Program Specifics 1.0 Academic Information & Policies 1.4.1 HBS Learning Model 1.4.2 Classroom Environment 1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) 1.4.4 Elective Curriculum (EC) 1.4.5 Required Internship & Internship Courses View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Specific and General Knowledge and Organizational Structure
By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Jensen, Michael C., and William H. Meckling. "Specific and General Knowledge and Organizational Structure." In Contract Economics, edited by L. Werin and H. Wijkander. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. (Reprinted in Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, (Fall 1995) and Michael C. Jensen, Foundations of Organizational Strategy, (Harvard University Press, 1998).)
- October 1994
- Article
Aggregation, Specification and Measurement Errors in Product Costing
By: S. Datar and M. Gupta
Datar, S., and M. Gupta. "Aggregation, Specification and Measurement Errors in Product Costing." Accounting Review 69, no. 4 (October 1994): 567–591.
- November 1994
- Article
Science, Specific Knowledge, and Total Quality Management
By: Karen H. Wruck and Michael C. Jensen
Wruck, Karen H., and Michael C. Jensen. "Science, Specific Knowledge, and Total Quality Management." Journal of Accounting & Economics 18, no. 3 (November 1994): 247–287. (Reprinted in Michael C. Jensen, Foundations of Organizational Strategy, (Harvard University Press, 1998).)
- 12 Dec 2014
- Conference Presentation
Aspect Specific Sentiment Analysis Using Hierarchical Deep Learning
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Richard Socher and Chris Manning
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Richard Socher, and Chris Manning. "Aspect Specific Sentiment Analysis Using Hierarchical Deep Learning." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Workshop on Deep Learning and Representation Learning, Montreal, Canada, December 12, 2014.
- 2003
- Article
Temporal Specificity of Perceptual Learning in an Auditory Discrimination Task
By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Dean V. Buonomano
Karmarkar, Uma R., and Dean V. Buonomano. "Temporal Specificity of Perceptual Learning in an Auditory Discrimination Task." Learning & Memory 10 (2003): 141–147.
- April 2015
- Article
Anxious and Egocentric: How Specific Emotions Influence Perspective Taking
By: Andrew R. Todd, Matthias Forstmann, Pascal Burgmer, Alison Wood Brooks and Adam D. Galinsky
People frequently feel anxious. Although prior research has extensively studied how feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. Here, we examine the influence of incidental... View Details
Keywords: Anxiety; Egocentrism; Emotion; Perspective Taking; Risk and Uncertainty; Perspective; Emotions
Todd, Andrew R., Matthias Forstmann, Pascal Burgmer, Alison Wood Brooks, and Adam D. Galinsky. "Anxious and Egocentric: How Specific Emotions Influence Perspective Taking." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144, no. 2 (April 2015): 374–391.
- 01 Oct 2020
- Video
Julia Austin - Customer Interviews - Ask Specific Questions
- Research Summary
Manager Specific Human Capital Investment: A Model of Block Trading and Firm Stability
I develop a model in which workers can undertake specific human capital investments in the firm and in the manager employed by the firm. If the manager leaves the firm, a worker has to decide whether to join her in the new firm or stay in the old firm. In case of... View Details
- April 2006
- Article
The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery
By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 52, no. 4 (April 2006): 473–488.
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery
By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery." January 2005.
- April 2002
- Background Note
Reflections on the United Electric case discussion Persuasion, Induction, and Grounding in the Specifics
An MBA classroom discussion revealed the perils of learning in which "theories-in-use" are not challenged and suggests strategies for more reflective learning. Two groups of students presented their positions at a conceptual level without grounding their conceptual... View Details
Spear, Steven J. "Reflections on the United Electric case discussion Persuasion, Induction, and Grounding in the Specifics." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-146, April 2002.