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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

climate change is expected to worsen conditions for growing food. [27] Barclays predicts that markets for meat alternatives could be worth $140 billion within 10 years (by 2029). [28] Challenge Agriculture’s contributions to climate change come from a View Details

09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

join a sports tech startup along with that startup’s product team. I started as a Product Analyst, leveraging my skills and experience from Twitter and grew into a Product... View Details

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

and effective in preventing severe disease, and their accelerated review will go down in history as having saved millions of lives. But COVID vaccines weren’t the first medical products to be brought to market through an expedited... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

08 Jun 2010
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to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

creating." Requests made from profiles with African American-sounding names were about 16 percent less likely to be accepted. According to the study, discrimination was pervasive across price points and in a variety of neighborhoods,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

10 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

term, looking at a variety of consequences over time, we found that the amount of money whistleblowers get seems to compensate, on average, for the financial costs. When they receive financial compensation, the costs are not as high. A... View Details

Keywords: by April White

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About Us - HBS Working Knowledge

business topics and industries long before they make their way into mainstream practice. In addition to our website, Working Knowledge publishes on social media and through a variety of content-sharing partnerships. Who We Are Danielle... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and organizations operate in society. It then highlights what it takes to implement societal change. This includes a wide variety of... View Details

07 Jul 2019
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Walmart's Workforce of the Future

investment that immediately improved its ecommerce infrastructure. Walmart has also piloted and invested in robots to perform a variety of functions, from unloading trucks to scrubbing floors to scanning shelves and bringing items out of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

29 Nov 2022
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How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

obscure—they may sell hard-to-get products at higher prices. “Too much of a thing and it becomes a commodity, too little of a thing and it becomes something that’s not even recognized when you walk down the street.” “There’s a balance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

18 May 2009
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The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

technology expertise they need. And thus the link to savings—to attract an investor, companies must put collateral into the project: money from savings. With access to technology, the company improves its productivity and contributes to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are going to like the products that you’ll produce with the sewing machine. The grace period afforded people the time to make significant investments... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

30 May 2018
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Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

two dozen retailers to determine which ones self-matched. They developed a model that analyzed various types of retail situations, and they considered a variety of consumer factors, including their preference for specific brands, their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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Business History - Faculty & Research

and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

making decisions often decide to trust their anecdotal experience rather than AI’s interpretation of the data. The trouble is, sometimes decision makers think they understand the inner workings of an AI system better than they actually do. The findings have... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

2016 University of Chicago Press Innovation Equity: Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services By: Ofek, Elie, Eitan Muller, and Barak Libai Abstract—This book bridges the gap between what academics know, and... View Details