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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
from within (the CFO was 31-years-old and had spent a decade working at the company). On the other hand, employees were encouraged to make the juice bars their homes. There were no required uniforms or scripts on how to interact with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
own partners. The case explores whether these initiatives will lead to a long-term competitive advantage. The firm believes what really will produce competitive advantage is its "Me-To-You-Mindset" initiative that encourages...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Settlement, under the control of Britain and the United States since 1863, all able-bodied men were encouraged to join the battle. Moore and several others signed up and were issued bandoliers, rifles, and bayonets. They stood watch over...
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though the transition will typically be slow. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
day." One month into the entrepreneurial project, teams are encouraged to take a tough look at the work they've done and the feedback they've received, to decide whether they are on the right track or need a radical course correction...
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- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
financial crises of 1997 and 1998. Today, the IMF is very cautious about encouraging countries to liberalize, and indeed generally IMF officials offer developing countries warnings about the serious risks involved. The OECD has retreated...
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by Ann Cullen
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
encouraging community interaction. Coordinate immigration policies internationally. For a successful immigration policy, coordination among member states—and perhaps even among European countries and the US, the UK, and Canada—is key....
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by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
people, sometimes totally new, came to the village for the first time. In a few places I visited, genocide victims were given plots of land right next door to someone who had been a perpetrator of the genocide, thereby encouraging some...
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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Unless we have colonies elsewhere than on earth, there is a time that humanity could disappear. That’s the doom scenario. There is a talk by Jeff Bezos on that... For those of you who haven’t seen it, I would encourage you to look for it....
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro, who View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
including partnerships with consumer groups and insurers. In addition, they would always have a role in encouraging doctors and institutions to share notes more readily. What was the best way to scale OpenNotes? Was it the app route or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
seller were now being sold by Amazon straight from X Fire’s suppliers, effectively cutting X Fire out. Amazon was also ignoring the minimum advertised price (MAP) set by manufacturers. How should X Fire defend itself? Now Amazon representatives were approaching X Fire...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
were also proud of their company culture, which de-emphasized traditional company hierarchies and encouraged independent thinking and cooperative working arrangements across departments. Keeping the company private, in their view, had...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
groups that have been part of HBS for years. The teams, which meet only during the first year, are assigned across sections and with an eye to mixing students from a variety of backgrounds. They also encourage in-depth case analysis and...
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- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
partners. Competition for funds among groups may inspire applicants to perform at a higher level: When announcing it was accepting proposals for its Youth Programming Wellness Grant, Target encouraged organizations to “think big.” GE,...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
that hacking it is still difficult.” Nevertheless, Kinney felt that “Now that it has been hacked, perhaps Apple should redouble its efforts to improve the security... I therefore would not encourage Apple to open up its architecture.”...
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- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
any agent’s preferences are not substitutable, then the existence of a stable outcome cannot be guaranteed. In many-to-many matching with contracts, a new market design issue arises: the design of the contract language can impact the set of stable outcomes. Bundling...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and speed—data the company aggregates...
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by Mikolaj Piskorski