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- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
segments to existing products, lowering price by removing features, failing to think through all the technical requirements, neglecting stakeholders, and refusing to believe products created for low-income markets could have global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
deductions and just submit your income on the back of a postcard. All this was met with a barrage of criticisms, primarily from two groups: charities concerned that it would undermine giving, and Realtors, home builders, and mortgage bankers, who were afraid that View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
site, the question is-can Moda Operandi succeed despite removing an essential piece of the fashion industry? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812040-PDF-ENG Paddle8: Painting a New Picture of the Art Market Mukti...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
tasted a Cabernet Sauvignon in one of Napa Valley's tasting rooms were not permitted to ship the wine directly to their home. In 2002, direct-to-consumer shipping was either banned or overly cumbersome in 37 states. W. Reed Foster, president of the Coalition for Free...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
customers. It is the job of these leaders to facilitate the work of the people they lead by making their jobs easier, and removing bureaucratic impediments and other obstacles. Middle managers who cannot make this shift may have to move...
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by Bill George
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
says Norton. "I haven't prevented you from gaining weight or removed all of the French fries from the world." At the same time, the strategy uses people's biased thinking against them. For example, behavioral economics has shown that...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
more to recognize the donors' generosity than to provide orientation. Temporary signposts are selectively erected to guide new arrivals at the start of a new school year or a new program, but they are removed within days, once their...
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Education
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
use of obsolete treatments, or carelessness, not when a patient had a bad outcome despite receiving appropriate, up-to-date treatment. With better information and no restrictions on choice, many lawsuits will be averted. The money spent on enabling information and...
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- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
revolution. The facts are undeniable. Watch an old movie in which people remove the telephone receiver from the wall, type (either manually or electronically), and even begin to email (as in "You've Got Mail!"). It's always good...
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- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
decline"? Growth at the organizational level opens up opportunities for new customers, new hiring, acquisitions, increased profitability, and generally more liberal policies as a result of the removal of constraints associated with...
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by James Heskett
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
traditional theories of leader selection describe organizations as picking leaders with particular characteristics, LFT sees organizations as having a filtration process that evaluates a pool of candidates and iteratively removes them...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Washington The People’s Republic of China is more open to foreign investment and trade than it has ever been. Beijing has recently removed restrictions on foreign investment in the manufacturing sector and given unprecedented access to...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning...
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- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
safety. “Surprisingly, income and housing prices had little correlation with improvement” Next, they obtained Street View images from the same streets captured in 2007 and 2014. After algorithmically removing image pairs containing...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
an aerospace company? I've got just one thing to say to the members of the board: "Come on, guys and gals! What were you thinking?" Barton removed the glasses and polished them with his napkin. He rubbed his eyes and shook his head, as if...
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- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
across the country. The climate movement can sometimes feel like a distant battleground centered around vast and technical challenges like the energy transition. While critical, these issues can seem abstract and removed from our everyday...
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
that in the 1980s as the political and ethnic tensions eased in Singapore and Malaysia, governments there also began to remove some of the biases against local firms. What Huang wants to convey, however, is the fact that a historical...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
The current war with Russia has limited Ukraine’s grain shipments and increased the risk of famine in northern Africa and the Middle East. In her interview with Climate Stories, Dr. Blaine was uncertain about the war’s impact on the transition to a green economy with...
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