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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
Today's headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy, all the while losing money and U.S. market share. This most recent bout...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's research...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were...
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- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación raised money quickly. An...
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April White
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
therein), fairness can be restored if a sufficiently large amount of money is available for distribution/compensation as well. Interpreting the agents as the objects to be allocated, one might try to restore fairness for marriage View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of civilization. View Details
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
good ROI.” Diniz began to brainstorm with Paulo Puterman, a friend studying to get his PhD in biotechnology at the University of São Paulo who also happened to be focused on the highly efficient elephant grass/electricity equation. “After a year of talking we...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
rest of us—keep up with technology’s relentless march? Have we gone as far as the eye can see? Told in five parts, Becoming, Transforming, Observing, Showing, and Curating, this book shows how each revolution in seeing has determined who we have become—and how we might...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
repeat riders, we realized Cycle for Survival could have a bigger impact than anyone ever imagined,” says David. Given their marketing and finance experience (Jen was Nickelodeon’s senior vice president of consumer marketing; David was...
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- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
innovations, companies and markets necessary to save the planet. To memorialize their content, organizers from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative asked panelists to share (in writing) the main messages they hoped attendees would...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them archaic. Definitions also gravitate to that catch-bin. The plummeting housing market has forced a reevaluation, not just of the financial value of...
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- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000 in prize View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States. I found that there was a huge opportunity to disrupt the intimate apparel space. People are so tired of high prices and slow fashion from Victoria's Secret, and I knew we could...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
among a country's citizens. Some view inequality as the natural result of freedom, a free market economy, and capitalism. It appears to work best when those with the wealth create jobs for others. This seems to have been the thinking...
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by Jim Heskett
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
with the exception of the very large ones like the United States, will represent the interests of a handful of other countries. In 2008, the IBRD and the IDA committed nearly $25 billion in loans and grants through some 300 development projects around the globe. Where...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010) Abstract There is a widespread sense...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in terms of a strategy for bringing high-tech services to View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov