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- 04 Sep 2019
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Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
grow up in home environments that complement investments in human capital,” the authors state. “You can’t fix it by simply reducing credit constraints and giving people more access to funds,” Kominers says, adding that the researchers...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Photo courtesy of James Ellerker Photography The Question: There’s a necessary element of bulk in the rental business—if you only needed one or two pieces you’d just buy them, Giridharadas says. Her question is how to get there. A chef View Details
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Case Study: The Speed of Light
access that opportunity: (1) Develop a small set of critical core values that truly define your culture. (2) Hire and retain only people who clearly and strongly exemplify those values. That will make it much easier to maintain your...
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- 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.”...
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4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy - MBA
identification card that affords access to numerous activities and locations on campus. These cards allow entry into University buildings, offices, and parking facilities. In addition, they allow employee and student identification for...
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- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
Anxiety Through Access to Human ContactThis study finds that customer anxiety during self-service transactions can reduce customers’ trust in the service provider. Operational design choices may help....
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India - Industry specific research
manufacturers. Automotive Advisory Service Ernst & Young's India...
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- 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006
channels will fuel a shift in consumption away from hits to a much larger number of lower-selling niche products. While the long-tail view predicts an increase in the heterogeneity of consumption patterns, the well-known superstar effect promises the exact opposite. As...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
high-growth potential, but they need access to high-quality professional services to help them achieve their objectives,” Tierney says. “Bridgespan and Bridgestar tend to work with organizations with annual...
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- 29 Feb 2016
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Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
self-compacting solution to keep streets clean. Last year, however, the Massachusetts-based company’s CEO shared plans to change its business model from selling a product—waste and recycling stations—to selling a subscription-based View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
more quickly from in-person services to virtual. Call center workers, for example, had access to the Kyruus scheduling function online so that, Gardner says, “Overnight, they switched from working with 400...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School’s curriculum. “There’s one Chinese company, for example, that has established an e-mail/postal service that expedites...
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Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition
Play Video duration: 2:04 2024 New Venture Competition Winner, Social Enterprise Track: Solara Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable,...
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- 15 May 2018
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Spreading the Safety Net
paid sick leave and the flexibility to work from home, or even abroad. Our hourly employees, working in Rent the Runway’s warehouse, on the customer service team and in our retail stores, had to face life events like caring for a newborn,...
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Shana Hoffman
Morton, MBA 2014, a student who shared her interests in health care and technology. “We did a whiteboarding session at the i-lab for an hour and came out with an early form of CareSolver.” Conceived as an online service platform,...
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Password Managers | Information Technology
impacts existing LastPass accounts that were obtained through Harvard can also be found on Harvard University's Knowledge Base . Privacy Notice: Please be aware that this offering will require you to create a private vault within the HU 1Password vault. The main vault...
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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
data—in some cases in exchange for free services or lower prices—as well as firms that pledge to keep a lid on people's information, but often charge consumers higher prices. Firms competing with privacy tend to benefit from engaging in...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
Sometimes I'd be the only reporter on his plane." That kind of access enabled Tumulty to break the story that Gore had hired feminist Naomi Wolf as a consultant, an exclusive about which she says facetiously that "my bureau chief and I...
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- 01 Apr 2008
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“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
Baker Library) and accessed with the DECmate housed in a VT100 terminal cabinet. At first I was envisioning Doris and Val at their Decmates inputting all the data for some 38,000 alumni, but no, the keypunched cards allowed alumni data to...
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