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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
about it. Some are comfortable with being known because there is some mission that they are trying to communicate, and others truly need consumers to experience the art itself. In the latter case, the chef needs to be able to scale up... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
critical and creative thinking, as well as communication skills. "These skills lie much more on the 'doing' side of the scale than the 'knowing' side," says Datar. Such soft-skills development by its very nature involves... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
that by the divine power of God, through and with his properly aligned instruments, anything is possible. My question for all of you is, when the scales are balanced, which side of history do you want to be on? We all have a role to play... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
work has been around for decades,” Neeley says. “The early research began nearly 50 years ago.” In other words, quite a lot was already known when we headed for our couches, basements, bedrooms, and kitchen tables—but the sheer scale and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
equivalent of taking about 40,000 vehicles off the road in terms of reducing the emissions, which is incredible, and that’s just at our little size of a dozen restaurants. So if we’re able to scale this, the opportunity is so large, and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
children attending school by 25 percent, and boosted agricultural output by two to four times, depending on the area. Now we’re talking to the UN, the World Bank, USAID, and others about scaling the village program to a countrywide level.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
illuminating graphics to guide readers in conceiving, designing, building, testing, and scaling up the ideal business for them. The Career Playbook: Essential Advice for Today’s Aspiring Young Professional by James M. Citrin (MBA 1986)... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Toyota has a selective number of dealers who face much less intrabrand competition, have a much larger market area, and sell more cars per outlet, thus giving them scale economies. Their dealers have to be more profitable, and therefore... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
increasing importance; measures of transfers have grown twice as fast as measures of the scale of affiliate operating activity over the last two decades. Transferred information can take the form, for example, of a specific formula used... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
scale back on travel and her hectic work schedule after coming back from parental leave. They responded by changing her job to one that did not require travel. "It was the worst job of my career," she said. "I hated that... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
“We are also looking for ways to scale in other cities as well as employers who want to work with us.” In her testimonial for BlocPower, Nyasia West added that the training has impacted her child as well as herself: “BlocPower gives you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
money to good use, building a successful organization, showing that you have a demonstrable impact in achieving your mission, and then scaling the organization are the hardest to accomplish. When you show impact, more money will flow in.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Abstract—In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
in North America. Most recently they scaled part of the barren, rocky Andes between Chile and Argentina. The outdoors is their shared passion and where they feel most alive. It’s also their business. In 1998 Kim and Coup cofounded GoLite,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
It was a game that allowed a group of players with different skills — be it spelling, knowledge of trivia, whistling, molding clay, or acting — a variety of chances to excel. Furlong told Tait that on a scale of one to ten, he’d give the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
the military — in the last 40 or 50 years. Today, businesses and other enterprises are flatter, much less hierarchical, and much more diverse than the companies that first grew to great scale and came to define the modern industrial... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
In 2005, after several internal evaluations, RBM leadership has decided to engage the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to work on a Change Initiative that when completed will enable RBM to address the eradication of malaria both more effectively and through larger View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
scale of the relationship relative to location-specific and other effects. We find cluster presence to be significantly related to higher wages, with the effect being moderate but meaningful. This suggests that cluster presence enhances... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
bespoke, and digital media. Because Spiegel & Grau, a Random House imprint that holds the rights to the book, lacks the funds to market Carter's memoir at a scale deserving of a superstar, Droga5 is asking Microsoft to shoulder most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne