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- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
marginal cost of experimentation and allow companies to create more learning more rapidly, provided that managers can capture that potential. My book provides a roadmap of how...
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by Wendy Guild
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by View Details
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by James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
of eyeglasses can cost more than a month's wages. That's because much of the world relies on highly trained specialists who use sophisticated and expensive equipment, in a market that provides consumers with choice and fashion in eyewear....
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eyeglasses
- 09 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS
directly with local nonprofit organizations to address a specific problem or to answer a specific question that the organization has. These consulting projects provide our members with an opportunity to practice skills they’re learning...
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- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
companies to develop ever more sophisticated technologies, products, and systems — typically for the market's high end, where margins are greatest. However, the market's ability to utilize and pay for these advances grows more slowly,...
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Leo Markel
rewarding to form my own perspective and then constantly modify it (sometimes drastically) based on the points made by my classmates. This type of rapid learning is virtually impossible to replicate outside of HBS. How has your overall...
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Michelle Lee
resources, for example, the iLab and the Rock Center have ‘Entrepreneurs in Residence' who offer one-on-one office hours." Most importantly for Michelle, she loves being around so many passionate critical thinkers who can help View Details
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Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates
find the perfect Mother’s Day gift. Harvard also provides access to a full menu of options for child care, with six day care centers located around the University (one on the HBS campus itself). Finally, your Harvard ID is more than a...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
“In doing so, we can open up access to economic opportunities to traditionally marginalized groups and bring more equity into our economy, all while making hiring an easier, better experience for companies.” “We have to help companies as...
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Business Track | New Venture Competition
in your career, we guarantee the Competition will be an exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience. We look forward to understanding more about your idea, hearing your pitch, and providing you with some...
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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major Canadian city, a group of...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
financial need who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to serving Black and African American, Latinx, and other marginalized communities of color prior to enrolling at HBS. The School’s Doctoral Programs is committed to build a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
begin by analyzing restaurant reviews that are identified by Yelp's filtering algorithm as suspicious or fake-and treat these as a proxy for review fraud (an assumption we provide evidence for). We present four main findings. First,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive...
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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Jennifer DeWhitt
about it." Kickstarter provided the funding, and now the book, Jervis the Best, is available at Amazon. "It was a very vulnerable thing for me," Jennifer acknowledges. "Here, my peers were aspiring CFOs, and I'm there...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States seek to reduce poverty and...
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Filippo Mezzanotti
was particularly intrigued by the incredible opportunities that econometric techniques provide for understanding the reality around us. During my Master’s at Bocconi I worked on several research projects at the Innocenzo Gasparini...
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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
that could also make niche content more profitable, according to researchers Feng Zhu and Monic Sun. "Many media scholars think this revenue model is detrimental to society because it provides incentive for the content View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to View Details
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Martha Lagace