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- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
in the very early phases of a new industry. We identify two distinct essential journeys that enabled the company to grow: an internal journey focused on developing and refining a business model and an external journey focused on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
sound like a throwback way of delivering care, but paired with a few critical 21st-century upgrades—technology-enabled efficiency and patient-centered design—this community-based care model may represent one of Japan’s best hopes for the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
policymakers with information that facilitates evaluation and adjustment of patent-system performance. This article uses multiple economic models to show the likely benefits of early stage administrative review. Nonetheless, because of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Timothy Clark. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Abstract This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
ex-wife and I with the model that he and she who much is given much is required. They know that they've always had to give back as well. My life has been very intentional relative to giving back and helping others. I believe that every...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
for instance, community outreach to minimize the risk of transmission or extensive efforts to retrofit facilities. These are expensive activities, and we need a financial model for them. I’m assuming that like every other provider, Mass...
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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
but it was in that traditional model of Western aid work. And I certainly had the realization that—and have learned much more about this sense that it is not just about delivering aid. If you start to go down that path, what you start to...
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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
and a business model to be envied, feared, and emulated. By year-end 2006 the firm had a market capitalization of $274 billion, with $1.9 trillion in assets and $24.6 billion in earnings. But, ten years after the merger, it ended in...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model of how companies develop along the technological frontier—from...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
and moving some activities online when the virus becomes more widespread (as happened in early November). We also transitioned many of our Executive Education programs into a virtual delivery model leveraging the Live Studio technology...
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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
well prepared, he had to do much better than his fellow white students in order to be accepted, and so he was extremely careful to do those things and not get himself in any kind of trouble, or not fall short. In some ways, I think he felt like he was a role View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Gujarati-speaking Indians are 108 times more likely to manage motels. We develop a model of social interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies generate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
publicly stated goals. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-outsmart-activist-investors/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
fail to make changes to their processes and business model that would be needed to use the technology optimally. That is akin to replacing your car with a helicopter but not making any changes to your lifestyle. Adopt a "call...
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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
current trouble, as pointed out by Andrew Lo, can be attributed to the failure of risk managers and their models to account for highly improbable events—the so-called fat tails of the distribution. But, as Robert Merton suggests in...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
influencing actions rather than dictating them. Both must be brave enough to make themselves vulnerable and admit mistakes. In addition, teachers lead and leaders teach. Again, this may not be obvious, but think about how teachers model...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
business model that in many respects mirrors Go-Jek’s, down to the green helmets and jackets that its drivers wear. In a city short on a transportation infrastructure, the companies are also competing as delivery services. Both have...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
executives live it. And I think our opportunity there, more than anything else, is that we, the leaders—we have to be what we say we want to be. Talk is cheap and talk is easy, but from our perspective it's like we have to model the...
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