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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
however, offers a different model that consumers are beginning to embrace. "Our outlets encourage browsing and we sell at a fixed price." Jain cited a challenge familiar to any retailer in any country: difficulty managing inventory in a market where tastes...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
company Long-Stanton and a 2013 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard, has been promoting competitiveness-based ideas to improve the regional economy. During the past 18 months, he’s given dozens of talks about US competitiveness to state...
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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women, indoor residual spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, and artemisinin-based combination therapy. We discuss the timing and regional coverage of the program and critically review the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
regulators and bank examiners are inconsistent, which leads to confusion and an aversion to taking on more risk from bankers. During the most difficult part of the crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued guidance to improve the consistency of...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
regional issues. I tried to get better informed on general world issues and solicited suggestions from former ambassadors. When it came time to leave, the President gave me a nice send-off. What do you do during a typical week? My day...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
shock of the Kennedy assassination and the accession of President Johnson. And increasingly, there was the problem of Southeast Asia. McNamara says he at first accepted the Cold War–based “domino theory” that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other countries in the...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
process, I found an employment agency that represented professionals seeking part-time positions. When I realized that my region of New England wasn’t covered, I offered to open up an office as a third principal in the firm. For the last...
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- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
in a variety of roles, including marketing, strategy, or channel management among others, before transferring to one of our 90 subsidiaries and 15 regional headquarters to further develop their careers with Samsung. What recruiting...
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Technology
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Historical Research - India
the world (46679 results for India). Reports with translations are issued for eight world regions daily and cover such topics as military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology. Readex...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
seven regional "Baby Bells"), she remained with the New England Telephone Company, which later merged with the New York Telephone Company to form NYNEX Corporation. Gaining a broad understanding of the business through a multitude of jobs...
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- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
innovation in this industry. We consider the relative importance of key factors such as geographic and within-firm capabilities and the role of financial resources. We find that location in a region of concentrated expertise and prior...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative work, especially in settings where intellectual property protection is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
European cuisine—American food was considered too rustic and parochial. Beard changed how the world thought about American food, in part by insisting on local ingredients and tapping into regional cuisines while exhorting other chefs to...
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- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
competitiveness of firms in one sector can have implications for the competitiveness of firms in another. Industries and the suppliers of capabilities to the industries need each other. Kill a critical industry, and the suppliers probably will not survive for long;...
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- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706442 Central Bank: The ChexSystems(SM) QualiFile(R) Decision Harvard Business School Case 208-029 The "Central Bank" series analyzes the use of information and product design for managing the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
itself—but also in terms of how ambivalent Russia has been about promoting the regional economic reintegration itself. One of the things that some people have assumed is that these countries that have wanted to reintegrate with Russia...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
partnership between a for-profit entity and a nonprofit organization. Organjet is a for-profit company that provides on-demand private jet and ground logistics for patients to travel for an organ transplant from one region to another. In...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
includes devices and broadband, but also the quality and usability of digital learning products. Given the systemic nature of education inequities, it’s hard to rank them. That said, here are two priorities for US business leaders to address. First, work to eliminate...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth into these channels and explain regional heterogeneity in the effects of RER changes in terms of differences in export intensity, import...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
a friend introduced me to a remarkable red wine. Delving into wine suits my personality—I’m a naturally curious person and enjoy diving into the nitty-gritty of things. Wines offer endless layers of intrigue: from the terroir (soil, climate, topography) to grape...
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