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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
endowments, mergers, and limited liability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55499 January 2019 Health Affairs Decreases In Readmissions Credited to Medicare's Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Have...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Ensina! is quickly able to raise the initial capital, recruit graduates from top colleges, garner positive press, and demonstrate early success in increasing student performance, the organization runs into a number of operational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
workshop, senior leadership teams explore innovation and change issues specific to their organizations, and focus on a strategic issue or change initiative of their own choosing. The program combines...
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by Staff
- September 2009
- Article
Virtue out of Necessity? Compliance, Commitment and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains
By: Akshay Mangla, Richard Locke and Matthew Amengual
Private, voluntary compliance programs, promoted by global corporations and nongovernmental organizations alike, have produced only modest and uneven improvements in working conditions and labor rights in most global supply chains. Through a detailed study of a major...
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Mangla, Akshay, Richard Locke, and Matthew Amengual. "Virtue out of Necessity? Compliance, Commitment and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains." Politics & Society 37, no. 3 (September 2009): 319–351.
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the video game market as its...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Medical Internet Research Reimagining Health Data Exchange: An Application Programming Interface-Enabled Roadmap for India By: Balsari, Satchit, Alexander Fortenko MD, MPH, Joaquin A. Blaya PhD, Adrian Gropper MD,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem
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by Faisal Z. Ahmed & Eric Werker
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Jazztel
By: Marc L. Bertoneche, Laurent Jacque, Kenneth Hynes and Jennifer Woolman
Jazztel--an upstart Spanish telecom--is considering an IPO on the NASDAQ (rather than the Madrid Bolsa) for funding its ambitious capital expenditure program estimated at $750 million over the next 10 years. The alternative would be another round of high-yield debt....
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Initial Public Offering;
Valuation;
Privatization;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry;
Spain
Bertoneche, Marc L., Laurent Jacque, Kenneth Hynes, and Jennifer Woolman. "Jazztel." Harvard Business School Case 204-047, April 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of...
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- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
cuts in white-collar staff. Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the Managing the Future of Work initiative at HBS. Ayelet Israeli: For now, AI still needs human intervention In the near...
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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
other slums in Asia. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710004-PDF-ENG Echoing Green Harvard Business School Case 410-013 This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009....
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
science matters. We have a class, it's a very popular class at the Harvard Business School. Some of you will take it in the spring if you're HBS students in the MBA program second year. It's called Leadership and Happiness. And here's...
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by HBS Staff
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
In the 1990s, when Harvard Business School Professor Lynn S. Paine was researching and writing about examples of corporate misconduct, she hoped more businesses would take decisive action to root out fraud and other unethical behavior. Many companies have since formed...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
Wellesley College, and Kendall E. Smith, a doctoral student at London Business School. A congressman takes action Initial expectations for the group’s prospects were low. George Esper, who was Vietnam correspondent for the Associated...
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by Rachel Layne
- February 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Intelliseek
Intelliseek harvests, filters, and mines the content of messages posted by consumers online and on discussion boards and blogs. For any specified consumer product brand, Intelliseek measures the volume of work-of-mouth and its valence (proportion of positive and...
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Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Consumer Behavior;
Knowledge Management;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Web Services Industry
Wathieu, Luc R., and Allan Friedman. "Intelliseek." Harvard Business School Case 505-061, February 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
Delta will decide two years from now, ‘That was an initiative and now we’re done.’ They understand that it will take substantial investment in time and resources.” Atlanta is more than 50 percent Black Delta started as a Louisiana...
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- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
effects, and the dearth of rigorous empirical research, my research team and I set out to tackle the problem. My research team and I investigated time pressure and creativity as part of a multi-year research program in which we had a...
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- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
and Uber can scale up quickly thanks to affordable technology and networked providers. Credit: AntonMatveev To overcome those challenges, the startups followed similar strategies, initially focusing more on the supply side than on the...
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- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
History Initiative and a lecturer at Harvard Business School. Sean Silverthorne: Tell me a little about the book. Walter Friedman: My assignment was to write a narrative history, stretching roughly from the arrival of European merchants...
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