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- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
that skill can come in handy when juggling the many demands of GreenFlea, a moving puzzle of vendors, each with his or her own personality and demands. (Gehrke’s is the only full-time position; twelve employees help out on the day of the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
sales startup consultants and Sales Development Representatives at other startups. Every conversation enabled us to learn from their process and best practices uncovering one piece of the puzzle at a time. This collective feedback was... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy literature. Cornell International Law Review In Strange... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
share? A: To better understand user motivations, we first studied p2p file sharing networks in isolation and later considered interactions with iTunes. It did not take us long to discover that there was a puzzle that we had to solve... View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
any of these factors presents a tough puzzle for any researcher to crack. Silverthorne: You’ve just started at HBS. What does your research agenda look like for the next few years? Roche: And what an odd time to start!? Much of my... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
Comparing India and China is to embark on an old puzzle that has fascinated smart people for centuries. The newer question of economic leadership, however—"Which country will overtake the other in the foreseeable future?" —is an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
question: where would they travel for their Global Immersion project? Each box contained a jigsaw puzzle with a map of the selected destination. Once students had assembled their puzzle, they also learned the name of the Global... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
One of the most puzzling paradoxes in social science is that though people spend so much of their time trying to make more money, having more money doesn't seem to make them that much happier. My colleagues Liz Dunn and Lara Aknin—both at... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a means to avoid the negative effects of crisis: why do sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
repair a CAT scan machine that had not yet failed. As he was confronted by puzzled hospital administrators, the machine indeed stopped functioning. More recently, many of us have heard the story about the Target customer who was sent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
The Prescription for Lowering Health Care Costs? Look at What Doctors Do | Working Knowledge
doctors made about 25 percent fewer trips to the ED that could have been avoided, nurses—who also have substantial training and experience in treating injuries and illnesses—only made about 7 percent fewer avoidable visits. “We were really View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
work on it. I have an answer for climate change.’ I was stunned and didn’t really believe him. But it turns out, he did know.” Wiviott was particularly puzzled as to why, if the solution was so simple, no one else was already doing it. He... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
reminded me of how effective film can be at sharing a complex topic with large audiences. “But a particular and obvious question puzzled me: Why haven’t films like Chasing Ice, The Island President, and An Inconvenient Truth, to name a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
important work by John Wennberg and his colleagues at Dartmouth. This was the last piece of the puzzle for us in truly understanding the problem. We have known for a long time that U.S. health care is high cost. What everyone assumed was... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.
hood and meet as many people as possible.” Joining the Business of Sports Club was one piece of the puzzle that connected Laitsas with other students passionate about the industry. He was active in connecting with professors and alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
told Bulletin readers that they were puzzling over how to expand the customer base of Saga, a mobile app that they cofounded to help families share stories in an audio format. They were wavering between whether to invest in partnerships... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
period—and so did in-store sales as well as sales of jigsaw puzzles and walkie-talkies. It’s not clear what we learn from panic buying. So let’s look at what was happening online before the virus of 2020. Ecommerce has been part of the... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 16 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports
the hood and meet as many people as possible.” Joining the Business of Sports Club was one piece of the puzzle that connected Laitsas with other students passionate about the industry. He was active in connecting with professors and... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun theories to explain the puzzle and... View Details