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- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
Banking on Cheese Credem, an Italian regional bank, grants loans to Parmigiano Reggiano producers and holds the cheese as collateral in its own warehouse during the maturation process, essentially replacing part of the operations for the...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
tourists. All of this is destined to have long-run effects not just on their local economies but also on regional and international trading, argue the authors. In fact, the authors say, the actions of the GCC states are pulling the Gulf...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
firm to master all these skills, let alone house them under one roof. Second, a pool of low-cost yet highly skilled labor has emerged in developing countries, creating incentives to substitute these for higher-cost equivalents. Indeed, some View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown...
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- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
However, there were interesting positives as these ecological horrors also created opportunities for a surprising cohort of green businesses across sectors ranging from beauty and health to ecotourism. In the 21st century, both business and governments in the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth into these channels and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-engagement, Re-imagination, and Experimentation By: Kirby, William C., and Marjk van der Wende Abstract—This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
to web publishing. Dimitri holds a B.S. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University with a minor in Information Science. Mallory Stark Curriculum Services Specialist Curriculum & Learning Services mstark@hbs.edu Inku Subedi...
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
Dean. It is a story about my father who has been an inspiration for me in so many ways. He was born in India in the 1930s. He grew up in a village without electricity, in a region where summer temperatures often reached 110 degrees. He...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
and the Mito city administration, and also the strong passion of the people of Mito. DM: What impact has the project already had? What are the positive changes that you see in the city and the region at large? YH: Mito had not been seeing...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
one reason why communities outside the United States, Brown notes, have been more inclined than their American counterparts to outsource their local operations. Seeking new sources of supply, many coastal regions are turning to...
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- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
spurious face-like pattern in a rock than miss a predator," the researchers write in their paper "Multivoxel Patterns in Face-Sensitive Temporal Regions Reveal an Encoding Schema Based on Detecting Life in a Face," forthcoming in the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
27 reported transplants involving an exchange; in 2007, there were121 such transplants; and in 2009, 304.) "What would really help us have a thick market would be to have a well-organized national market," Roth says. "So far we're dealing with View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
costs by off-shoring the VFX work, and Rhythm & Hues had to compete with lower cost regions and with off-shore contractors who received subsidies. You didn’t need years of experience and crafts skills so much anymore. Silverthorne:...
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
socioeconomic neighborhood—you have to take the time to meet them where they live. I learned a lot about empathy last fall, when I accompanied more than a dozen faculty members on a trip to the Golden Triangle region of Mississippi. Most...
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- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
Primary Education in India's Himalayan Region By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Himachal Pradesh has surged ahead of other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through a combination of field research methods, this paper...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
16th century searched widely for “Cibola,” a region of seven supposed “Cities of Gold” in the North American interior. On arrival in what is now New Mexico, they encountered well-organized societies and communities of Zunian-speaking...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
legacy evident in her “Osaka-ben” dialect. For centuries, merchants from the city have spoken the regional dialect known for its disarming charms. “It’s soft on purpose because it makes it much easier to win a negotiation without the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
firm in Ghana, West Africa. An accounting major, student body president, and regional president of his fraternity at Purdue University, Richardson and his partner, Kodwo Mills (also MBA '96), worked under the managing partner of Deloitte...
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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 33:166-167. Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman. 2008. "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States." Social...
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