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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
welfare services leads to an increase in the formation of new companies. (The paper cites a related example: author J. K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter novel while receiving welfare benefits in the United Kingdom.)...
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- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
health care is about life, quality of life, and death. Start trying to manage, control and put a dollar figure on that and you will instantly run into walls at all levels of society." On the other hand, David Giammittorio described...
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- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
any individual company, it is often better, in the short or intermediate term, to outsource production to an overseas supplier. The company can buy manufacturing services at a much lower rate if it goes to China or elsewhere, depending on...
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- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain...
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- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
available for download Banking Deregulation, Financial Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how U.S. branch banking deregulations affected the entry of new firms in the non-financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
orchestrates, manages, and coordinates its network of hundreds of global partners." It just isn't possible for one firm to master all these skills. MacCormack and his team (Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher, View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
at baseline (18%, 28%, and 33%, respectively, p0.05 for interaction between race or job type and intervention). Mean calories per beverage decreased similarly over the study period for all racial groups and job types, with no increase in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is set very wide so that they...
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by Robert Simons
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
teaching the second-year MBA courses on investment management and capital markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in...
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- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
all of those who signed up, only about a quarter of them were truly uninsured. The rest were newly eligible Medicaid recipients (created by increases in income eligibility thresholds under the ACA), were switching policies, or had...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
they are in terms of their educational background and their companies and the fact that they are there more to talk about leadership because they want to advance their own leadership. Kenny: We're all using one platform and another and...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
homer making suggests many nuances surrounding the practice, one in which judgment is anything but hasty. All participants find incentives to engage in or cover up for homer making, yet when openly disclosed their participation could be...
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- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many factors—some of them a product of human...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
their government—a distinct contrast to the current sentiment in the United States. Almost all the Chinese executives I met believe that their nation's leaders possess the foresight and the courage to think long term. These executives are...
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by Nitin Nohria
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Materials Harvard Business School Case 107-018 Explores the process and inputs behind financial and operational forecasting in the Electronic Specialty Materials unit at Air Products and Chemicals, a global chemical company. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country as well as being the market leader in almost all the categories in which it operates....
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four...
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Sean Silverthorne