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  • November 2002
  • Supplement

Richard Oliva

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Thomas J. DeLong
Presents profiles written by six members of the HBS Class of 1976 from the 10th and 20th reunions. The six alumni represent a cross section of the class of 1976 and provide a snapshot of life at the time of the reunions. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
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  • 02 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning

Keywords: by Rogelio Oliva & Noel H. Watson
  • 06 Sep 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Cross Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales & Operations Planning

Keywords: by Rogelio Oliva & Noel Watson
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Books

The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) Following the success of their 1996 bestseller, The Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton have published a new book... View Details
Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Reunions Offer Job Search, Career Assistance

Services and author of The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job. Holding numerous seminars during reunion weekends, Gardella — with easel, flip chart, and Magic Marker at the ready — usually begins by reminding graduates... View Details
Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Professional Services
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

To err is human, but most research on supply chain management doesn't take psychological, functional, incentive-related, and other biases into account. HBS professors Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson have... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Rogelio Oliva and Fernando F. Suarez began to study the effects of these changes three years ago when both were on the faculty of Chile's Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Recently published as an HBS working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • Research Summary

Competitive Transformation of Latin American Firms

Rogelio Oliva and Fernando Suárez (UAI, Chile) are studing the competitive transformation of Latin American firms. The significant change that Latin economies have undergone in the last decade has had a profound impact on business firms. In fact, a new breed of Latin... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

  Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Quality in Service Operations

Rogelio Oliva is interested in understanding how the operational characteristics of service delivery processes interact with human resource and marketing policies to determine the long term productivity, quality, and profitability of a service operation. Specifically,... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

efforts they could have a powerful collective impact on the country. By the time of the BEE Commission Charnley found herself at the top of the pyramid, but she had come from the bottom, growing up in Elsies River—an Afrikaans-speaking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Person Page

Curriculum Vitae

Noel Watson

 

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  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

non-stars. "In the second part of this study, we focus on the point of view of the firms. How do different firms recruit, attract, and retain stars? Learning To Compete Professor Rogelio Oliva teaches... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

a complete mistake," he said. "We learned very fast that we had to adhere to the local standards in terms of packaging." Fernando Aguirre and HBS professor Rogelio Oliva He said companies... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Ideas: Faculty Research Online

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise! Managers are not always rational decision-makers. In this interview, Assistant Professor Noel Watson and Rogelio Oliva discuss how human behavior affects supply... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

  Working PapersOn Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Authors:Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz Abstract How should players bid in keyword auctions such as those used View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2004 (Revised July 2004)
  • Teaching Note

Align Technology, Inc. (TN)

By: Rogelio Oliva and H. Kent Bowen
Teaching Note to (9-603-058). View Details
Keywords: Technology Industry
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  • August 2005 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Leitax (A)

By: Noel H. Watson, Rogelio Oliva and Laura Winig
Leitax, a young digital camera manufacturer selling its cameras mainly through retailers, experienced poor matching of inventory availability with demand for new and existing products in 2002. Describes the implementation and details of a consensus forecasting... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

provide a snapshot of life at the time of the reunions. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/403087-PDF-ENG Richard Oliva Leslie A. Perlow and Thomas J. DeLongHarvard Business School Supplement 403-085 Presents profiles written View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne