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Enrico Ferrari
technology, he spent nights and weekends learning how to code; soon, he started developing his own algorithms to scale and automate digital marketing campaigns, a skill he applied to successfully expand a classifieds business into fifteen...
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Tech
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
codes each paper with one of 51 different research categories—including aerospace, imaging, and robotics. For each scientist, Nagle and Teodoridis were able to classify their degree of specialization by determining how many different...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
associate Arthur McCaffrey. It's also one they are passionate about and determined to solve. As they write in a new working paper that they're preparing for an academic journal, there are more than three billion people in the world who may be View Details
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by Martha Lagace
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
in Startupland Featured Exercises Classify VC questions and craft responses to minimize the effect of gender biases Create an impact statement summarizing how you hope to impact the startup ecosystem Free E-Book So You Want to Be an...
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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
and the socially clueless. Still, people in an organization can be roughly classified using a simple matrix. Our research showed (not surprisingly) that, no matter what kind of organization we studied, everybody wanted to work with the...
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by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
enterprise has shown that there are fundamental tensions between pursuing scale economies and playing the spreads. (See the table "Conflicting Challenges.") The data indicate that there is some merit to classifying companies...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
be classified into five segments: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Each of the five segments has its own behavioral and demographic characteristics, with varying levels of uncertainty about the...
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- 22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
property owners who wanted to rent out their properties. Where could they find this kind of information? A large number of owners had already posted their properties on a popular online classified website, Craigslist. Airbnb founders...
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by Martha Lagace
Harry Chandler
Times led all other American newspapers in advertising space and amount of classified ads. Under Chandler’s leadership, the Times was also the first newspaper in the country to establish a personnel department, and one of the first to...
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Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
HBS Entrepreneurship at a Glance
50. That’s how many years HBS has been researching and teaching entrepreneurship. It’s also the percentage of the School’s alumni who classify themselves as entrepreneurs ten to fifteen years after graduation. Among those who have founded...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
cigarette advertising in 38 magazines. Cigarette brands were defined as "youth" brands if they were smoked by more than 5 percent of the smokers in eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades; magazines were classified as "youthoriented" if at...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
their high-margin business of print classifieds with the lower-margin business of online classifieds,” Gilbert told Editor & Publisher. “If that's all they're doing with their online operations, we'd suggest that they shut them down...
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- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
median between High and Low. Sustainable Or Unsustainable? Based on this analysis we were able to classify countries, for each of environmental and social performance metrics, into the following categories: In Sustainable countries—such...
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by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will...
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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
challenging business, financial, diplomatic, and not-for-profit negotiations, often with public-private and cross-border aspects. Of the cases, exercises, videos, and significant examples in the course, roughly a third could be classified...
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- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
Jefferson’s résumé confirms that if he’d opted to remain in the private sector, he would be making some serious money based on his leadership skills alone. Case in point: A West Point graduate and Green Beret, Jefferson was on a View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Good luck with that. Industry fundamentals are corroding so rapidly that they will eat through even the noblest of cross-financing oblige. Newspapers, for one, are seeing the wholesale kneecapping of each ad driver, from classifieds to...
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Making Markets - Course Catalog
do not. When such market failures occur, entrepreneurial opportunities arise: reshaping the market to improve efficiency creates value that can be captured(!). To understand how to fix markets, however, we must first understand how and why market failures occur. The...
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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
novel dataset by hand-mapping data on sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific performance data on a variety of sustainability investments. This allows us to present new evidence on the value...
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Sean Silverthorne