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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
supply officer who was an HBS alumnus and who lent him copies of the Harvard Business Review. With a wife and children to support, Dunn decided that HBS would be a good choice when his tour of duty ended in 1959. Admitted to the Class of...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
through, we probably never would have done it!” When the magazine was sold three years later (the pair oversaw its publication while attending HBS), the subscription base numbered some 75,000 readers nationwide. Ferguson then moved on to...
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- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
but have proliferated in recent years. Goods covered by patent pools totaled at least $100 billion in the United States in 2000, while multiple standard-setting bodies today cover virtually every high-technology product. Moreover, the...
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- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
good tertiary-care hospitals. Medical tourism usually refers to the idea of middle-class or wealthy individuals going abroad in search of effective, low-cost treatment. But there is another dimension of medical tourism that is not called...
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- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
promised my sleeping baby that I would always love him and that I would strive to be the best version of myself. He deserved a father like that. Then came the sleepless nights, the public temper tantrums, the constant messes and endless...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
prose. For HBS professors, of course, there’s Working Knowledge, the publication you’re reading right now. But many general-interest publications employ editors who can help guide the process for scholars to...
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- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52096 2016 Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—The United States has developed an unparalleled environment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the...
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Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
which a time-stamped sensor is embedded. We randomize distribution of these soap dispensers as well as provision of monitoring (feedback reports) or monitoring and incentives for daily handwashing. Relative to a control arm in which...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
imposes on society by securing subsidies, driving employees toward public welfare systems, creating urban sprawl, and destroying jobs in competing operations. Thus, juxtaposing these customer savings against the estimate cited by Fishman...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong...
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
capita income and a more educated public also contributed to the creation of a consumer culture. Within this emerging national market, it fell to the advertiser to encourage consumers to buy goods not...
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
for entrepreneurs and startups. The authors discuss issues of power and of managing privacy, fairness, and public trust. Martha Lagace: What trends are you seeing around platforms? David Yoffie: The first question one must ask is: Are...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
can readily include standardized trustworthy data about the surge capacity plans of individual hospitals—updated in real time. Understandability. An expert should analyze plans and frame them in a way that the public would understand. A...
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- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
example, key government officials can serve as mega-influencers by promoting their willingness to be immunized through traditional and digital media. Throughout the history of vaccines efforts, presidents, prime ministers, and leading health authorities have View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do more View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
one—including how things like data sourcing, volume, diversity, privacy and security will be handled. Data can be acquired in a number of ways including crawling public data, finding data-rich partners, gathering it from customers, or...
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by Rocio Wu
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles in the private, nonprofit, and...
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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Fails—and What to Do about It By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnström, and Derek Schrader Abstract—U.S. corporations spend enormous amounts of money—some $456 billion globally in 2015 alone—on employee training and education, but they aren't getting a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne