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- 23 Mar 2021
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Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Anywhere, which publishes March 30. The book acts as a “blueprint” for long-term workplace transformations, providing evidence-based advice for navigating the virtual work world, including dos and don'ts from companies that have embraced geographically View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
said, making businesses "glocal"—a combination of global and local. For example, "In Europe, soccer is big, so as a publisher if you decide to launch a magazine, you can distribute it throughout the continent. But you have... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and market demands of the... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
the Web 3 and crypto markets, that had been seen as the big disruptive force for society a year earlier, were limping through a crypto winter. Companies that had been slated to restructure financial market declared bankruptcy. Leaders like Sam Bankman-Fried who... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or gender. The products and curriculum... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
others. The Principles of Distributed Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta Periodical:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2, no. 3 (summer 2007) Abstract Distributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Paul Wang
distributing mosquito nets to the needy, and we’re evaluating the effectiveness of different evaluation approaches. TAMTAM evaluations are practical, not theoretical; we promise to deliver research results in just a few months. The quick... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
non-sponsor companies. For example, at the 2006 Cup in Germany, a Dutch brewery distributed to Dutch fans thousands of pairs of lederhosen of the same orange color worn by their team. Because Budweiser was an official Cup partner, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
acting as a catalyst for the creation of these products by banks. Indeed, given the considerable fees involved, banks' business models are being reorientated away from the traditional structuring and holding of individual loans. Instead, the emphasis is now on... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
so few eyebrows. Comments from readers of this column suggest that marketing has, in practice, moved beyond the product development, promotion, pricing, and distribution activities that defined the field five decades ago. Alternatively,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
modern day requires distributed leadership and decision making. “The democratization of data is critical to creating an organization that is agile and can continuously learn,” Hill notes. But regional gatherings also highlighted issues... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
In addition to traditional wine distribution in the United States, Cuffe made deals with several US airlines to carry Heritage Link wines. "Our first contract created 200 jobs on the ground," Cuffe says proudly. "And ours was the first... View Details
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John Smith-Ricco
experience got me thinking about the role of industrialization in economic development. The viability of South Africa depends on that development and the equitable distribution of resources." Eager to learn "how capital is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
them and do simple maintenance, like cleaning their crucial navigation sensors. Another opportunity is alternative fuels. When cars propelled by electricity or hydrogen go mainstream, someone will have to build a nationwide fuel View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
Teachers” (with Professor Tom DeLong, and the session that I sat in on, “Finding Great Cases.” The case in question was Sahlman’s “Dr. John’s Products, Ltd.”, the story of serial entrepreneur John Osher and his quest to invent, manufacture, and View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
take their place and the need for stocking or tidying up merchandise at store level doesn't exist. Without a store network, real estate costs are confined to a handful of distribution centers. Inventory aggregation at a few key points of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
who are at the very top of the ability distribution (non-superstars), react positively to increased competition from superstars. For them, we find some evidence of increased effort and no increase in errors of logic, consistent with both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Several managers praised this as an excellent idea, but it was never implemented. It was apparent that conflicts between the sales department and the distribution department were to blame—but no one was willing to confront the conflicts... View Details