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21 Apr 2015
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domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm productivity improvement... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

November 2009 (Revised May 2017)
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Miracle Life, Inc.

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy

Miracle Life is a firm with a unique setup and organizational structure. Specifically, it is a network marketing firm, also known as multi-level marketing (MLM) firm, which utilizes a large distributor base and depends on this individual distributor base to sell its... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Cash Flow; Stocks; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Distribution; Organizational Structure

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

FY 21 126 FY 20 131 FY 19 152 FY 18 144 Publishing Revenue (in millions) FY 22 $302 FY 21 274 FY 20 262 FY 19 262 FY 18 240 Executive Education Tuition (in millions) FY 22 $174 FY 21 81 FY 20 146 FY 19 222 FY 18 207 The School’s annual endowment View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

were conducted during the lockdown last year in Tamil Nadu and real-time implementation of the drones delivering COVID-19 vaccines looks promising.” JANUARY 11 Ten years ago, Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) founded Hope and Comfort, a nonprofit that collects and View Details

04 Aug 2006
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What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

convenient to do so, through such devices as TiVo and cell phones. It is a world where everything digital is available at all times. And because of the very low cost of maintaining and distributing inventory, everything is likely to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Sep 2013
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Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

India is that the mechanisms to distribute food to the most vulnerable people are inept and corrupt. The most charitable estimate I've seen is that for every rupee of subsidized food, 65 paisa doesn't reach the intended recipient, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

24 Sep 2001
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Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

in that enforcement. We see a similar demand with regard to the Russian programmer who was just arrested in the United States for distributing a technology that allowed readers to break through the software protecting e-books. I also... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2001
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Tech Investment the Wise Way

value created for users by the offering based on the technology; define the structure of the value chain, that is, the network of activities within the firm required to create and distribute the products or services offered to customers;... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

30 Sep 2022
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Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

Entertainment specifically, there’s still a lot of work to be done in this space. As Christy Haubegger recently said: “We know that talent is evenly distributed in this world, but the opportunities have not been. The fact that Latinos in... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

specific tumor cells. We can target these receptors with radioactive material to detect tumor cells with a very high accuracy and also see the distribution of tumors in the body. We then target the same receptors with another radioactive... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Clarissa Quintanilla

campus. After graduation, she worked at Edward Jones “because I was interested in its community-based distribution system.” After two years with the company (working in its Rotational Development Program and in marketing), she married her... View Details

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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Railroad Records Photographs Research Collections Secondary Sources Related Sites Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies &... View Details

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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

duplication services. All requests are subject to review by the reference staff. Staff may recommend or require professional photographic reproduction as an alternative to copying materials to protect the collections. Images for publication or View Details

18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter

headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

31 Mar 2002
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You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

employees' eroding sense of loyalty and cynicism over the growing gap between the compensation of those at the top and those on the front lines all indicate that value distribution must change. The rapid spread of stock options as a form... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor

approaches, distribution networks, product packaging, and financing instruments to meet the needs and requirements of very poor customers. As members of the School’s Global Poverty Project (GPP), Kash Rangan, John Quelch, and other... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2000
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Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

conditions of the distribution of capital on nonprofit management and organizational performance. He will also investigate how the availability of capital at various stages of an organization's evolution affects its growth. Jed Emerson... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

23 Apr 2013
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implement principles of open and distributed innovation. Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2009
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Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A)

By: Fernando Suarez, Benjamin Edelman and Arati Srinivasan

Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new competition from Google and Apple. Symbian evaluates changes to its software and its relationships with distributors in order to meet these competitors. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Distribution; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software

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