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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Cochran were ecstatic about the progress they had made and the enthusiastic open-mindedness of Bay Area investors to backing groundbreaking and even potentially contentious "big ideas," they wondered if their investors would...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
company commands a global market share of more than 50% and is largely responsible for the rapid technological progress in the sailmaking industry over the past 30 years. CEO Tom Whidden needs to consider how to best defend the company's...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
technology. Rather, technological changes will have to be pervasive and will require a whole range of different products and processes to come to market. Some of the technological progress will come from incremental innovations that do...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason for innovative activities to take place inside the boundaries of an organization. However, exponential technological progress...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
to manage a British government effort to promote the venture capital industry considers the progress made to date, as well as how the program can be adjusted. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811027-PDF-ENG Better...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
other thing we can do is pass democracy reform legislation. If we actually ended gerrymandering, if we got more disclosure and small-donor matching on campaign finance as well as automatic voter registration—those reforms would really make a difference. There’s a lot...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
information. Technological progress had made it considerably easier to hear from NYC residents. Were those gains from innovation being shared equally? More recently, the city began using the data to create predictive models that might...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
should not be that surprised when missions fail. Of the thirty-odd missions we've sent to Mars, only a third have been successful. It really is rocket science! Personally, I think that it will be hard for NASA to make progress on reducing...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
East, and then burning it up in the atmosphere. Every part of that equation has to stop in the next decade, or we are going to have a carbon crisis that is going to make this financial crisis look like a minor blip.” Progress in deploying...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
of American occupation (1898-1918), we find that the implementation of these reforms was very slow. As a consequence, tenure insecurity increased over this period, and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
transcend our differences. As a participant in, and a beneficiary of, what we know as “the great American experiment,” I feel compelled to pay it forward by contributing to our collective progress towards a better United States. Part of...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
what you plan to do and ask for feedback. Nothing should be hidden because that builds trust. Execute changes, then repeat the process periodically. Check on progress to learn about unanticipated and unintended outcomes and make...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
increasing inclusion in the workplace and gender diversity and reducing environmental damage and progress towards tackling climate change. The early results from his efforts were promising, but was there more he could do? Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and organizational challenges ahead. He created a new narrative for the company in the era of Big Data, putting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
billion, split between McDonald’s and the franchisees. As for convincing the customer that McDonald’s is now a modern, progressive burger company—a turnaround shorthand CEO Easterbrook has often employed—Flatley says it will require new...
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- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
that hold back progress in resource mobilization research. We then propose a path ahead for future research guided by two overarching goals. First, we advocate for a process perspective, focusing attention on how an individual actor’s...
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Dina Gerdeman