Economies Of Scale - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2022
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Ceibal: Sustaining and Scaling Educational Innovation in Uruguay

By: John J-H Kim, Michael Chu and Mariana Cal

Ceibal was founded in 2007 in Uruguay, as an initiative to reduce the digital gap in the country. After playing an important role providing a smooth transition to remote learning during COVID, Ceibal in 2022 must now determine the best way to fulfill its mission to "be... View Details

Keywords: Digital Gap; COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Teaching; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Transformation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Education Industry; Latin America; South America; Uruguay

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12 Dec 2019
HBS Conference

Political Economy and Justice: Exploring the State of Current Research

18 Jun 2019
News

Can Khan Academy Scale to Educate Anyone, Anywhere?

09 Nov 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies

Keywords: by Kris Johnson Ferreira, Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi

24 Jun 2016
News

What Brexit Means for the Openness of the World Economy

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

Shutterstock/Thomas Barrat Twenty years ago in this column we discussed whether the economic activity of that time actually represented the New Economy that Time magazine first touted in a 1983 cover... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Oct 2008
Conference Presentation

A Design-Centric View of the Economy (and the Financial Crisis)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Design; Economics; Financial Crisis

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28 Jul 2022
News

How the cost of living crisis killed the convenience economy

2020
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The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

By: William R. Kerr

Talent is the most precious resource for today’s knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other... View Details

Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Talent and Talent Management; Global Range; Immigration; Policy; Economy

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Antitrust in the new economy

The objectives of this project are threefold: (1) identify the computational, managerial, and legal issues that interact and make antitrust compliance difficult in the context of B2B exchanges; (2) examine the computational difficulties and policy implications of... View Details

June 12, 2023
Article

How AI Will Accelerate the Circular Economy

By: Shirley Lu and George Serafeim

Despite living on a planet with finite resources, our economy remains largely linear and full of single-use products. The shift toward a circular economy, where companies recover or recycle resources, has hit roadblocks, including low value of used products and high... View Details

Keywords: AI; Circular; Sustainability; Innovation; Technology; Recycling; Materials Management; Operations; Environment; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Climate Change; Environmental Management; Industrial Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry

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4 PM – 5 PM EST, 26 Jan 2022
Virtual Programming

Perspectives in Health: Health Care Leadership: Insights on Scaling Value-Based Care Delivery

Join the HBS Health Care Initiative and HBS professors Ariel Stern and Ikenna Okezie for a conversation with the cofounder and CEO of Somatus around health care entrepreneurship lessons, growing and scaling a care-delivery organization, and what it takes to move... View Details

21 Apr 2021
News

Welcome to the YOLO Economy

18 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

join a wide range of panel discussions featuring industry experts in the following areas: Decarbonizing Farming; Food Supply Chain and Waste; Scaling Green Energy Generation; Hard to Decarbonize Sectors;... View Details

August 2011
Article

Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan

By: Tom Nicholas

Independent inventors accounted for approximately half of all patents in Britain and Japan by 1930, despite the rise of the corporate economy and the spread of industrial R&D. A mixture of patent renewal and historical citations data reveals that the quality of... View Details

Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Development Economics; Research and Development; Patents; System; Motivation and Incentives; Tokyo; London; United States

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11 Nov 2008
Conference Presentation

A Design-Centric View of the Economy (and the Financial Crisis)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Design; Economics; Financial Crisis

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21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

said of their early meetings, "and about what research and course development efforts in this area—whether by Harvard or by other institutions—really needed to reflect." The basic macro environment in emerging economies, he... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

2003
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The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States

By: Shane Greenstein, Mercedes Lizardo and Pablo Spiller

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09 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology