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- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer base, the means it devised to cultivate and maintain customer loyalty, and the strategies it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
Publications, 2011 Abstract The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
with commercial institutions to reap benefits from their larger sources of capital and technology expertise? Would that mean compromising his original mission of elevating people from the base of the pyramid? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the relevance of their research. I define relevant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
practices are presented and how consumers may communicate their preferences. The consequence has been a chilling of the market for personal information, with consumers less willing to provide their information in the first place. This is an undesirable outcome since it... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
to this incident and asks readers to consider the following fundamental question: What does this tragic event mean for who he is and how he will lead his life? And by extension, what role do life crucibles play in helping to shape who we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
open and never failed to clear trades. By providing the means to make these markets transparent and secure, we might be able to bring them back to life and thereby reactivate the flow of credit that entrepreneurs need so badly. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
China's economy in context; and finally (3) "China and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed overtime. These materials should be of interest to observers and participants of Chinese business, and as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/04-039.pdf The Malleability of Environmentalism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
commercialize remarkable technological breakthroughs like the genome. There are also enormous questions about what the proper regulatory structure will be: Who owns a gene? Who owns the right to determine what I can do with my genes? These kinds of questions get to the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it mean to be accountable? By and... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for participants to discriminate. But as listings began to include photos, names, and other... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J Abstract—The View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
disappointedly low. Their ability, and motivation, to locate value-added activities in the most attractive locations means that they strengthen clustering rather than encourage dispersion of knowledge. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tipping point may be reached where the jokes progress to someone making highly inappropriate comments about how a woman is dressed, or to leering at or inappropriately touching a woman, behavior that clearly crosses the line. And just because a woman went along before... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
World Trade Organization. What does this mean for future agricultural programs in the United States? For future trade policies of the United States, Brazil, and others in the global agribusiness system? The future role of the WTO?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
less desirable merchandise through outlet stores to prevent cannibalization of regular store revenues by means of exploiting the positive correlation between consumers' travel sensitivity and taste for new products. I find that the rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
annual revenues. The narrative pays particular attention to the early, turbulent years of the yogurt company and the excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the supple, innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
implies: Promoting better oversight by national parliaments, who frequently have little information on what the Bank is doing in their countries. The World Bank's founding articles of agreement prohibit it from involvement in the political affairs of a state. But that... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
changes and a common contributor of decision-making biases: forecasting of demand. By over-reaction we mean that the manager over (under) orders when seeing a change in demand. We show that our representative manifestations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne