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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Monsanto Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant must guide his global agribusiness technology company into an uncertain future where food security, food safety, sustainability, and climate change will all impact the global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
handed the business plan for Internet Wicket Ale Inc. (IWA), an interactive, on-line marketing company being formed to sell premium beers made by microbreweries over View Details
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
activists (e.g., social movement organizations vs. religious groups and activist investors) rely on dissimilar tactics (e.g., boycotts and protests vs. lawsuits and proxy votes). Further, we show how protests and boycotts drag companies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a sample of what B2B companies have done in their attempts to improve...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
markets must also overcome the fact that some transactions are considered repugnant, especially in the infancy of an industry. (For instance, life insurance—in which companies...
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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
different resources and needs to the table. Second, over time, Lucci built a reputation as someone who could get things done. There are lots of sporting-goods stores in Greater Boston and lots of radar guns,...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
price. ©iStock.com/Rawpixel Ltd Examples of PWYW pricing abound in all industries: Radiohead's self-released its In Rainbows album with "name your price" downloads; the Dallas Theater Center holds "Pay-What-You-Can"...
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- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
are HBS endeavors to connect in a deeper way with academics and businesses. "It goes beyond learning about a particular kind of company and region of the world. Think about two decades from now,"...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Polman, the CEO of Unilever, was attacked by the Brazilian firm 3G--tried to take him over. He has been the great advocate for sustainability. I read his posts every day,...
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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
But, surprisingly, athletic success impacts applications even among academically stronger students. 2006 Harvard Business Review The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge Innovation Center. CIC is widely considered the center of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
generations. What doors are opening? Which remain closed? The book, written by Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria, and Boston College's Laura G. Singleton, is View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
selling advertising space on the back of the envelopes. It's one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
in the history of the U.S. banking system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/12-106_d9833135-0192-4c99-abab-476fa0ea84a2.pdf Cases &...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
market clearinghouses around the world, and have recently been implemented in school choice systems in Boston and New York City. In addition, the study of markets that have...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Personality? Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement Million-dollar endorsement deals were made and broken by how baseball players on the Boston Red Sox and Colorado...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
step that the self-regulation of the auditing profession is over." What goes on in corporate boardrooms today is "dramatically different" from two years ago, now that boards are empowering...
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by Catherine Walsh
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS...
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