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- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Health was a market leader, but dependence on climate-sensitive products made for uneven performance. Tanya Ferretto served as both finance head and general manager for Animal Health in Japan, where the business was a niche player...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
human creativity and ingenuity always find a way around any new rules, as it did in this last crisis? And finally, how can—in practical terms—we get rid of the "too big to fails," without increasing state intervention further?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
activities on the job that are not perceived as work while "working" in ways that are non-productive. In short, we're not thinking creatively enough about work. Those are themes that recur in the comments to this month's column....
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers working towards ideological, rather than financial, ends. Their founders are often intense, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
Creativity (Oxford University Press) spells it all out. The Missing Link Higgins became interested in this missing link after watching a young biotech company go through two public offerings in the early 1990s. The observations she made...
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by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down....
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
ourselves). Happy Money provides valuable information not only for pleasure-seeking consumers, but also for companies looking to increase the happiness of both employees and customers. The following excerpt describes how the power of limited access led to fanatical...
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Re: Michael I. Norton
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
school's new online education program. "We often think of ideas in the visual space arising through creative genius. But they actually are shaped through experience," Anand said during a summit session called "Transforming Giants: Forget...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
start seeing the strategic benefits of remote work? Prashanth Chandrasekar: There’s actually been, in some ways, a rise in productivity because people are able to focus and be very efficient with their time. We have not seen any kind of...
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
one of Doriot's former students, chose Doriot to serve as lieutenant colonel in the Quartermaster Corps. The Corps was responsible for research and development of new materials and products for combat troops. Doriot became a naturalized...
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- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
in many creative industries, monetary incentives play a reduced role in motivating authors to remain creative. Data on the supply of new works are consistent with the argument that file sharing did not discourage authors and publishers....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
old ones, capacity expansion, and product and process innovation. Ghemawat is the author of a widely cited book, Commitment, as well as seminal articles on the sustainability of competitive advantage. His latest book, Games Businesses...
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Susan Young
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. I’ve always found myself drawn to working on products and services that can have a positive impact on the...
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- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Americans.’” —Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986), coauthor (with Nicholas D. Kristof) of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, forthcoming in January MUST READ Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change by Matt Wallaert “I love...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
products — and such cheerleading is literally paying off. One company that has certainly ridden — and perhaps created — the wave of increased interest in the market is LeapFrog, the developer of the LeapPad system, a computerized device...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
shows on topics that many advertisers would find too edgy. How we consume TV, it seems, is changing what we consume, opening up new opportunities on the business and creative sides of an industry that hasn’t seen a similar degree of...
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
"General Doriot selected the name Manufacturing because he believes this activity is the hard core of our great industrial strength and one of the foundations of our business system....He believes that one can find great creative...
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- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
and took an incredible tour of the Brightmoor neighborhood with Kirk Mayes, Executive Director of The Brightmoor Neighborhood Alliance. Week 2: Boulder, CO We worked with Made Movement, a creative agency dedicated to supporting the...
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Entrepreneurship
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
an MBA?” The rest, as they say, is history. While that little ad led to a big change in Kuhns’s career trajectory, he found an outlet for his creative side in writing China Fortunes. “I had noticed over the years that people are...
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