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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
universities, local governments, and civic groups and developed an array of outreach programs to help people understand and express themselves through music. Ma was confident that there could be no better time to hand over leadership. But...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
full-blown financial and currency crisis. Latvia then adopted an aggressive economic adjustment program centered on maintaining its currency peg, which meant competitiveness would have to be restored by reducing domestic prices, wages,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
expertise of South African generic drug manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare are shown to be ameliorating misguided policy decisions by the South African government; communications campaigns, operational synergies, alternative distribution channels, and innovative product and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
revenue—to reduce global poverty substantially. It can only be done by profitable business. In 1997 the World Bank sent me to Kazakhstan to help the minister of planning think about the country's growth. At the same time I had an opportunity to study the Bank's View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Working PapersInvestable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Authors:Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal Abstract The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Halliburton Energy Services). The case examines BP's safety record and prior accidents at a refinery in Houston in 2005 and along a pipeline in Alaska in 2006 and describes managerial changes imposed by the Board of Directors and safety View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
manufacturing capacity to meet state needs, Pfizer adopted an R&D program to find new microbial antibiotics suited to its manufacturing technology after the war ended. In the 1950s and 1960s, Pfizer transformed itself into a...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
business strategy, part of Facebook’s business model since at least 2010. That’s when Facebook opened up its Graph application programming interface (API) to advertisers, giving them access to user data including their social network...
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by George Riedel
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
and darmody1 nominated Alan Mulally as a candidate. Mulally completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas and an SM degree from the Sloan Program at MIT. FAQ proposed Marc Benioff of Salesforce and Satya Nadella of...
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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
identified resource pool for sales positions. Of the over 4,000 colleges in the United States, only about 100 have sales programs or even sales courses. One common result is that many salespeople start their careers unprepared. On the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
and functional and novel ideas, a company has to find ways to bring those to market. They have to have programs that allow them to systematically work with those sources, invest in those programs. And, secondly, it’s creating the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Robert S., and Mary L. Witkowski Abstract—The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
that historically made up a significant share of ballet, symphony, opera, and theater audiences. "What do you do is the big question," Levy said. "It gets at a central tension. Do you modify your programs to attract a young...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
initiative targeting a younger, ethnically diverse, and urban-based market. The program was called "The Fiesta Movement," and with it came the handing over of a large part of the marketing campaign to active young social media...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
cannot be accumulated at the top of the company and distributed to those projects or programs in which it will yield the greatest strategic advantage. It resides in the heads of individuals at all levels and is embedded in the...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in 2011 and the OECD in 2014 and can be used to obtain more up-to-date estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
program based on MBWA in which senior managers observe frontline employees, solicit ideas about improvement opportunities, and work with staff to resolve the issues. We randomly selected 19 hospitals to implement the 18-month long...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
through strengthened platforms and systems. PEPFAR's five-year strategy, as contribution to the GHI, focused on transitioning the program from an emergency response to a sustainable, country-owned effort. The case describes the general...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
that can secure our independence, going far beyond the $8 billion clean energy program proposed by the Obama Administration for 2011. It is time to stop paying a $175 billion annual ransom to a cartel that robs us of the resources we need...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
program for native Malays that had alleviated racial tensions and reduced inter-racial income inequality over the previous 40 years though, some argued, at the cost of fostering corruption. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne