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Offshoring Strategies: Evolving Captive Center Models

Oshri, Ilan - The MIT Press

In today’s globalized economy, firms often consider offshoring when confronted by rising costs and fierce competition. One mode of offshoring has continued to grow despite the current global economic turmoil: the captive center. Captive centers are offshore subsidiaries or branch offices that...

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Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice

Dalkir, Kimiz - The MIT Press

management (KM) represents a deliberate and systematic approach to cultivating and sharing an organization’s knowledge base. It …

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Redesigning Leadership

Maeda, John - The MIT Press

When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor—with a love of argument for argument's sake and the freedom to...

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Operation Rules: Delivering Customer Value through Flexible Operations

Simchi-Levi, David - The MIT Press

In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies as just-in-time, lean manufacturing … strategies. And he offers a set of scientifically and empirically based rules that management can follow to achieve a quantum … information technology--transform operations and supply chain management from an undertaking based on gut feeling and anecdotes to …

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Leading Open Innovation

Huff, Anne Sigismund (contributor) - The MIT Press

In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi may launch...

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The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation

Denning, Peter J.; Dunham, Robert - The MIT Press

Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only...

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Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Health Economics

Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - The MIT Press

Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance students’ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market...

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The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings

Marshall, Robert C.; Marx, Leslie M. - The MIT Press

Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding...

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Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications

Eppinger, Steven D.; Browning, Tyson R. - The MIT Press

engineering management, DSM is increasingly being applied to complex issues in health care management, financial systems, public … integration, knowledge management, and others). …

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Information and the Modern Corporation

Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press

work processes and tracing flows of information across supply-chain management, product development, customer relations …

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