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- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
concept quickly becomes unwieldy when you think of a videoconference format with a thousand participants. "Synchronous learning doesn't scale very well," says Narayanan. "The advantage of an asynchronized model is it allows...
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- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Pomeranz says. To study them, the researchers formed groups of microentrepreneurs in Chile that were modeled on self-help groups like Weight Watchers to explore how participants could motivate each other to save more money each week....
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by Kim Girard
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
larger number of organizations. The researchers have also started to work on management experiments, modeled on the randomized control trials adopted in the medical field. This experimental approach is much more costly and labor-...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
increasing profits and growth at the country's largest telecommunications firm; "a boutique asset-management firm that invests in companies whose business models are aligned with the needs of a sustainable global economy." But Capitalism...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
Quality, defined in terms of outcomes, is the secret to success in health care. Second, high-value care is delivered by integrated practice units including all the needed specialties that care for the patient's medical condition over the full cycle of care, not the...
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- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
nearly 12 percent that day, a loss of $2 billion in market cap. The poor results were attributed to the aggressive rollout of 144 new "centricity" stores—revamped retail formats featuring a customer-centric operating model...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Union is funded through consumer subscriptions to Consumer Reports, and through private grants. This model has several advantages. By directly linking its output to consumer use of its service, it provides a powerful incentive to meet...
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- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
when I truly learned about the Asian American identity. It felt liberating. For the first time, I was able to put words to what I felt and saw growing up. Model Minority Myth. Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype. Hypersexualization of Asian...
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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
the Marol Park project will provide substantial cooling and flood mitigation benefits to the surrounding area as well as a model for future adaptation projects throughout the city. Our conversations with URDI, WRI, and C40 Cities left us...
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
periodicals like Aperture magazine. Harold Livesay observes that in the way Henry Ford envisioned the Model T as an affordable means of transportation for all, so too did Land see his products as opening "vistas of art and communication...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
should be able to do something like this for the nursing home down the street,” says Hu. Hu’s idea won the HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track in 2012, and the business took off. CarePort, which has a subscription-based View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
elective, as well as a doctoral seminar on Research Design and Measurement. Silk's earlier work focused on developing models and measurement systems to support decisions in the area of new product development and marketing communications....
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
school education is all about? Garvin: The concept that people have about what it means to be a modern business school is perhaps the biggest barrier to change. We are suggesting a change in the current model toward a new perspective: one...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
same approach they do! Based on extensive research and interviews, Own Your Future shows how to apply the simple model they use-Act. Learn. Build. Repeat-to reinvent the way you maneuver in an unpredictable job market. Here's how it...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
we have this web of doers. The business model is very much like the network-based mobilization that we see in the tech world. This is not a top-down organization. Everyone owns it. One of our founding members, for example, is Gisel...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
education around academic disciplines, explains Joel Podolny, dean of the Yale School of Management and a participant in the March colloquium. (He previously was a professor at HBS.) “The strict disciplinary model of management education...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
disciplines, explains Joel Podolny, dean of the Yale School of Management and a participant in the March colloquium. (He previously was a professor at HBS.) "The strict disciplinary model of management education arose at a time of...
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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the answers to these questions depend...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
no, it's the model." I said to Joe, "It's the model." He says, "What the h- - - do you mean, it's the model? Didn't you do the GD model?" Oh it was so bad because I'd hardwired the model and that, I feel that today. And so when I walked...
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