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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
rungs to catch up with dirty technology and because this gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
The prizes encouraged competition and medals were particularly effective. The boost to innovation we observe can only be partly explained by the re-direction of existing inventive activity. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
industries, organizations operate in increasingly complex and uncertain environments. To succeed in such environments, organizations require their members to think creatively and integrate conflicting demands. We propose that the adoption of paradoxical frames—mental...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
be useful for managing change after the Kyoto period is a challenge both for Kyoto ratifiers and for countries like the United States that have not ratified the agreement. Summarizes the science and economics of climate change, and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
foreign-corruption legislation extant. High-level bribery is part of the fabric of many societies, Wells says, because in a number of developing countries, the scarcity of well-paying jobs, among other reasons, encourages officials to...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
facing similar challenges, and return with a renewed energy and insight. Some of this exchange of ideas happens at twice-daily case discussion groups of six or so people organized according to participant living groups, or “pods,” a space arrangement designed to View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the platform itself) remain stable, while others (the complements)...
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- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
hasn't been much variation on compensation packages in the past, Ferri advocates a more holistic approach that tailors executive pay to a company's individual circumstances. "I like the notion of say on pay because it encourages...
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- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
liability encourage the practice of "overly-safe" and expensive medicine, (9) providers have fragmented and often incomplete information, and (10) consumers either have too little information with which to make rational...
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- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
offers. What projects/roles/opportunities did you pursue during or after the 2+2 Program? The 2+2 program encouraged me to pursue my mentoring activities. During my college years and during my first position, I always tried to mentor...
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- 31 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Building a DTC Brand Through COVID
mates were the ones who encouraged me to apply to Harvard’s Innovation Lab’s Venture Incubation Program; upon acceptance, I’ve been able to attend numerous workshops from building pitch decks to developing your brand story. For every...
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- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
back to school if things didn't work out. As an aside, I encourage all 2+2ers do go try something crazy before you get here - why the heck not? When my deferral period expired in the fall of 2014, I returned to campus. I thought I'd...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
universities. Based on a national survey the company undertook on the assumptions college students hold about sex, relationships, and sexual assault, the program is conducted in a group setting to encourage roommates and classmates to...
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- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
turns out it's tough—particularly a multi-billion-dollar market." Professors like Joseph Lassiter and William Sahlman, and their lessons about entrepreneurial finance and the diffusion of innovations, encouraged Dawe to think big —and...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
competition. Some major players—like Apple, Best Buy, Walmart, and phone carriers—have begun to encourage customers to trade-in their old devices when upgrading. The Question: Gazelle's president, CEO, and cofounder Israel Ganot (MBA...
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- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
launch of Dance Upon the Precipice Foundation? Ken: Very, very directly. And that is, if you look at what I have characterized as the mission of Dance Upon the Precipice. It is to encourage and inspire other people to deliberately get...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Dean Kim B. Clark's initiative to create off-site facilities around the world, the CRC's primary function is to facilitate and encourage faculty research. "Silicon Valley is one of the world's best research sites," says HBS professor and...
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Susan Young
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
marketplace, who defines the winner? It’s all perception–you think you’re the leader, and you’re really not,” he said. “For me, it’s all about conversion [monetizing existing goods and potential services] in the platform.” Discouraging disintermediation and View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
awareness. In this paper, we review research on both bounded ethicality and bounded awareness and connect the two areas to highlight the challenges of encouraging managers and leaders to notice and act to stop unethical conduct. We close...
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- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
revitalize the downtown area using generous tax incentives. This effort has led to a 40 percent increase in tech companies with offices in the city from 2010 to 2013. "They have been trying to balance the encouragement of technology...
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