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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Foundation Clinton Fellows. Part-time, we also have an urban planner working on policy and an architect. Our annual budget of about $200,000 is part grant-funded and part fees-generated from consulting assignments. What makes you most...
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- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
competitive pressure and highlighted how inherent conflict between an organization's departments can create disaster. The launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule took place 10 months after competitor SpaceX’s successful testing of its Starship and on a significantly...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
public benefits programs for which they were newly eligible, Olds says. Yet they took the risk of starting new companies even though their budget constraints had not changed, and even though they never signed up for SCHIP or SNAP. It was...
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- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
equal to multiples of their own budget through front-lines process innovation and support of staff on-the-floor. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607130 Broadband and Video Games: Playing...
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Martha Lagace
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
What really helped us is that we had a clearly delineated budget upfront of what we had to spend in order to get the concept tested. That really helped us to be incredibly judicious with how we spent the money. We had to do a lot of...
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- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
and Phillips-Sadler noted that for many, traveling to HBS was a major investment that was often difficult to justify with strained startup budgets and tight timelines. “Our mission is to democratize access to capital, give founders a seat...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
entertainment executives do is spend a large chunk of all their production and advertising budgets on a small portion of their total output. It can lead to big failures, of course, but it's the best strategy in the long run. When you look...
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
performance of its films over a five-year period, I found that the studio's 10 percent most expensive films—its so-called tent-pole movies—accounted for roughly a third of its production budget and nearly half of its revenues. There can...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts the development and initial stages of this project and the tradeoffs inherent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
both the United States and China the rewards of globalization are flowing disproportionately to an elite few. A 2003 Congressional Budget Office report found that the share of income going to the wealthiest 1 percent of American...
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
societal progress by creating jobs, investing in communities, and bringing the world much-needed products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock, business is called on to play a larger role in providing social...
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Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
and for investors, who’ve sent water-related stocks soaring 113 percent over the last five years. As replacement costs for old facilities and equipment combine with increasingly stringent and expensive regulations, more and more communities are also contending with...
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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to online marketing, we have an opportunity not simply to see the metrics used in online marketing budget allocation, but...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations and established as...
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by George C. Lodge
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
earlier. The School’s administrative staff grew to a budgeted 1,721 FTEs in fiscal 2018, from 1,680 in the prior year. In large part, these new staff positions were focused on capitalizing on growth opportunities in HBP and HBS Online....
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
in fiscal 2019, from 225 FTEs a year earlier. Recruiting administrative staff talent to fill open positions at HBS is becoming more challenging as the employment market tightens. The School’s staff grew to a budgeted 1,761 FTEs in fiscal...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
right now with budget issues. Seventy-five thousand students in New York alone lost their jobs for the summer, many of them Black and Brown youth,” Bobo told CNBC. He sought donations from real estate corporations and as the Black Lives...
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- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
better off providing moderate levels of resources—not too much and not too little—to research teams. "If the budget is too small, there is little possibility of creating new products," says Ahuja. "But if it's too high,...
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- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
innovations on their own, the entire corporate R&D budget would now be dedicated to producing breakthroughs. Bradley knew that attempting to manage these projects under the constraints of the old organization would not work....
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