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- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
cable channels were aimed at ardent fans who wanted live, beginning-to-end, daytime coverage, from cross-country ski races to early rounds of the hockey tournament. And then there were the real fanatic fans and new media aficionados who wanted to download View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
life, and low cost Prussian Blue Sodium Ion battery solutions for critical power and industrial applications, including data center UPS systems and electrically-powered materials handling equipment. Aditya's...
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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Photos by Webb Chappell At first glance, the MBA Class of 2006 is an interesting collection of data points: 897 students from 67 countries, 34 percent women, 32 percent international, and 21 percent minorities. But look again, deeper this...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since...
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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
to analyze the phases of American Express's card strategy over the past 50 years. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509027 Pfizer Inc: Building an Innovation Center...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
going to work, but you can certainly look at a lot of deals and say, "Even if everything went right, it still wouldn't be worth doing. Q: What was the rationale for introducing The Entrepreneurial Manager into the required MBA curriculum? HS: When you look at the...
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- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
example, 2021 transaction-level trade data from Vietnam shows that most bicycle tires imported from China went to a manufacturer in Ho Chi Minh City, whereas most bicycle tire exports to the US were made by tire manufacturers in a...
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- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
on addressing urgent racial justice or pandemic-related challenges. Inaugural recipients include city-based groups such as African Community Education in Worcester, Brockton Interfaith Community, Elevated Thought in Lawrence, as well as statewide initiatives, such as...
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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
A. Arnaout Publication:Nature Biotechnology Abstract Advances in biotechnology have fueled the generation of unprecedented quantities of data across the life sciences. However, finding analysts who can address such "big data"...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
less than private insurers for the same services. Using 2018 data (the most recent year for which all relevant data is available), we found that a pay-as-you-go Public Option could lower the price for the...
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- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,...
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- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
triggered by a culture centered around long hours and a 24/7 focus on the needs of BCG's clients, fears that PTO would contribute to poor performance reviews, and a reluctance to discuss with colleagues personal matters that begged for...
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- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
strategic response to data center penetration as well as residential solar penetration. In my role at BCG, I also had the opportunity to attend a weeklong immersive training at Columbia Climate Institute in...
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- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
Log 9, which created an unprecedented opportunity to engage with other green tech pioneers from India, fostering a collaborative climate-focused atmosphere that was at the center of the entrepreneurship, climate tech ecosystem in...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on data showing that pharmaceutical...
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Martha Lagace