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- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
Monticello, you've seen that it's full of very expensive stuff from all over the world. In 1788, when Jefferson came home from Paris after four years as ambassador to France, he had 70 trunks full of books, wine, and Paris fashions, all...
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- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Match.com, there's Farmers Only, aimed at rural lonely hearts; The Atlasphere, connecting Ayn Rand fans since 2003; and EquestrianCupid.com, for lovelorn riding enthusiasts. In fact, the $2 billion online dating industry comprises more...
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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Are you getting them across? Many communication errors stem from a naïve belief among marketing people that they're necessarily trying to connect with people exactly like themselves. For example, many retailers overlook issues of...
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- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
or any other competitive or aggressive physical activity. This aligns with the fact that half of the sample considered daily meditation or prayer a crucial grounding element of their self-care. Connecting socially, safely. Nearly all CEOs...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
but also to clean vegetables. By making a few minor modifications to the washers they manufactured, Haier was able to market the machines as versatile enough to wash both clothing and vegetables, and rapidly became the market leader in rural areas of its View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
sets. To demonstrate the sets, he secured informal permission from his employer to string an electrical wire from a local hilltop to serve as an antenna for the reception of signals from Philadelphia stations. When customers who purchased TV sets asked to be View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses Authors:Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and investing leaders in countries including Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as field research in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda. (Several students have shared insights from their field studies here: IFC Africa: Building Cities.) I believe the lessons learned there can be...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
obtain a master's degree from the Michigan Technological University. Thirty-two years later, a young Indian in Bangalore, Saumil Majmudar, started a small company. Those two events are connected by a trail of knowledge accumulation and...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team had found that 5,000 Danone managers around...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
has Apple had such a difficult job growing beyond the Mac? A: Apple is a computer company, and Jobs has always understood that his core franchise was very closely connected to the core computer franchise. Consumer electronics products,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
government turns out to be different from that in the United States. It shows that big business emerged as a constructive player in environmental policy in the 1960s, when it persuaded the government to establish a joint research institute known as the IVL and a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
information asymmetry in credit markets and problems connected with this phenomenon. However, institutional aspects—particularly, how information is gathered and shared—have not been studied as thoroughly. Only recently has research been...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
are younger. Most of the women I have interviewed say, "The time that I most want flexibility in my work, the time I most want to be staying at home instead of traveling, is when my children are teenagers." And so you can see,...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue growth rates or profit...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
determinants of bridging ties within networks of interconnected firms. Bridging ties are defined as non-redundant connections between firms located in different network communities. We highlight how firms can enter into these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
that the cost of change is associated with the degree to which applications are highly coupled. We show the best measure of coupling that predicts the cost of change is one that captures all the direct and indirect connections between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars...
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Sean Silverthorne