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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
[MCC], a US government agency that supports economic development in various countries. Its measures are typically very long-term outcomes and impacts: for example, increases in farmer incomes. This is a fairly simple, clear, and...
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by Julia Hanna
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
managing risk in early-stage ventures. The case also addresses issues such as diversification and options preservation as well as the importance of trust and long-term relationships in decision making in entrepreneurial arenas. Purchase...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
manufacturing suppliers. We also find that employment in the economy has been evolving from manufacturing into different types of services for the period under examination (1998–2013): SC traded services (with the highest STEM intensity and wages) experienced high...
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- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
out his company’s growth plan for the upcoming five years. The new plan set ambitious goals in terms of revenue and profit increases. At the heart of the strategy to achieve these goals is a desire to embrace a more direct-to-consumer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
London, Tokyo, Hong Kong); megacities and population magnets (e.g., São Paulo, Lagos, Mumbai, Jakarta); and “up-and-comers,” cities of 150,000 to 10 million people, aspiring to international stature (e.g., Cape Town, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur). Much of the world’s population...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
service outlets. "When Gerry was hired, it was the company's first deliberate action to view consumer packaged goods as an important growth platform for Starbucks," says Barry Beeninga, a 16-year veteran of the company who worked with...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
trauma—on players' long-term health, a complex issue that could affect the league's growth. In other words, the league has to play both strong offense and stellar defense to achieve its $1 billion-a-year growth-rate goal. But fans can...
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- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
which has employed team acquisition as a successful growth strategy for many years. The Quaker-founded firm’s compensation policies, strategic planning, consensus-based decision making, and even office décor reflect its culture. This firm...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
methodologies such as machine learning. We highlight the importance of distinguishing between which customers are at risk and which should be targeted—as they are not necessarily the same customers. We identify trade-offs between reactive and proactive retention...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Nike's corporate responsibility committee is to provide support for innovation. More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success-and yet the matter gets short shrift in most...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
financial performance, they overlook the greatest unmet needs in the market as well as broader influences on their long-term success. Why else would companies ignore the well-being of their customers, the depletion of natural resources...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Unilever planned not merely to double the size of its business, but to do so while decoupling the company’s growth from its environmental footprint and increasing its social impact. In addition to defining a set of environmental goals,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
slow speeds with variable coverage, and airlines desperate for a next-generation air traffic control system to reduce delays and fuel burn, why is it so hard to get public support for long-term infrastructure investments? There is an...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
been the case in this country,” he says. JULY 31 As part of the HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellows program, first- and second-year students participated in a diverse range of pursuits this summer, many of them focused on racial equity and justice. Among them:...
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(3) stabilizing the situation (building a stable management team that can lead to growth and future profitability), and (4) planning the future (developing a strategy and a structure suited to ensuring the company’s View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, i.e. the handheld video game console market. In doing so, we provide a framework to understand the dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. We find that hardware sales...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
foreign-born financial specialists-immigrants-solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander...
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Sean Silverthorne