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- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
Cost cutting can severely impair your ability to be competitive or could cause you to lose customers. This creates an opening for entrepreneurs who think holistically. They consider mutually reinforcing changes in the entire business View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairing a two-year study - conducted by the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development and considered a model for other industries — called "Toward the Sustainable Paper Cycle: The Role of Sustainable Forestry,... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Individuals' voting preferences are modeled using a random-coefficient aggregate discrete-choice model, in which we incorporate both observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find that different campaign activities have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth by Mark W. Johnson (MBA 1996) HBR Press In this revised, updated, and newly titled edition of Johnson’s 2010 Seizing the White Space, he provides an eminently practical framework for understanding... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
49 on the latest Fortune 500 listing. Anyone with a computer is familiar with the phrase "Intel Inside." With this book, professor Tedlow has taken us inside Andy Grove. Richard, it's great to have you with us today. Aisner:... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
"by the numbers." We discuss relational incentive contracts that use informal weights on formal performance measures. More importantly, we suggest how formal measures can be used in new models of informal management. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
and learning tools outside of school. We’ve optimized digital learning tools for use inside classrooms over the last decade. There’s a long way to go to ensure that seamless, high-quality learning experiences persist whether students are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
than three decades exploring how work environments can help or hinder the creative process. What she has found is that while the fruits of innovation are often in plain view, the seeds of creativity are much harder to spot—occurring deep View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
temperature. These are among the moments and lessons he has brought, post-adventure, to speaking engagements in boardrooms, classrooms, startups, sales meetings, and nonprofits across the world. “I love helping people realize they can do... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
additional 60,000 rural villages. By relying exclusively on low-income women as their frontline sales force, it also provided a significant source of income to a traditionally marginalized group. Q: What are some of challenges that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
brand into more adjacencies? Or should it consider something more radical, like app-related sales through subscriptions and wearable technologies? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618020 Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset ownership, low-powered incentives,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
give the nation’s schools a grade of C or below. That mix of approval locally and misgivings nationally translates into an attitude of “Let’s work to improve the model we’re used to,” according to a September Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community security View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
made great progress in catalyzing industry interest in PD. I’m proud that the MJFF is helping reshape the way medical research gets done and is considered a model for other disease-fighting organizations.” The single largest funder of PD... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
market reallocation and survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and identify their relative importance in the gains from multinational production by exploring their distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
to grow this advertising model in ways that have exceeded anyone's expectation. And just think about it, there are 7.5 billion people on the planet and a third of them [have used]on Facebook? I mean, wow, this is crazy. Kenny: What were... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
office in China to manage sales and marketing. Our revenues have increased by more than 44 percent in the past year. So operationally, the business has changed a lot in a short period of time. What are some of the challenges that come... View Details