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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
buildings 10 miles east of Mexico City that is populated by some of the country’s poorest citizens. Over the past two years, though, market days have been busier than normal at the store—all thanks to a little silver service booth just outside the shop. View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads in order to attract talent (back). But under which conditions, whose definitions, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
percent of the population has credit cards. Go-Jek drivers offered their customers rain gear and surgical masks as protection against the streets’ noxious fumes. And all Go-Jek drivers received road safety training; gone were the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16254 Does Ethnicity Pay Authors:Yasheng Huang, Li Jin, and Yi Qian Abstract One of the most important and one of the most heavily studied ethnic networks in the world is overseas Chinese. However, almost all of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Abstract—To set inventory service levels, firms must understand how changes in service level affect customer demand. While the effects of service level changes have been studied empirically at the level of the end consumer, relatively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early... View Details
- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
at the DoubleTree Hotel. E – EC. EC stands for Elective Curriculum and represents students who are in their second year of the MBA program. In the second year, students can “elect” the classes they would like to take and customize their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
breakout rooms based on the theme of the day. Conversations were so robust that I often could not shut the sessions down on time. For several weeks running I gave participants a warning that I was going to close the breakout rooms, five... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
directly tied to space, which would affect your typical worker, is going to be based on satellites, namely using data from them about the Earth and data through them as satellite internet expands its reach. If we look out a bit further,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
Total focuses on explaining how their cash use is prudent. Similarly, BP has a large base of retail investors but in many ways it treats them as just slightly different versions of its institutional investors. That is, BP assumes the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
special public protections and oversight. Because it’s scarce, it has an economic value, but that value must be affordable to the communities we serve.” Based in New Jersey, American Water is part of the British multinational RWE Thames... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market prices from comparable transactions. Thomas Rehder, the chairman of VHSS,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
heavily on other, usually smaller, companies or external individuals to conduct many of their activities. What part of your iPad is made by Apple? Is the Verizon customer representative you're talking with really part of that company? How... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
to me in our first meeting. “There are skills, attitudes, and a fundamental base of knowledge that education and experience can provide,” he said. “You won’t turn me into a world-class athlete by sending me out to practice with a coach,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general managers but not as entrepreneurs. His... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have invested in the past five years have grown more quickly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne