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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
into poverty during the pandemic, and to prevent firms (especially small ones) from falling into bankruptcy. Federal funds may be absolutely essential for some of these purposes, for mitigating the impact or View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
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Black History Month | Baker Library
business can succeed.'" (p.44) This city profile from the March 1971 issue unpacks the systemic barriers that the Black business community of Boston faced over 50 years ago, namely a lack of institutional support and limited access View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
of companies have participants role-play to gain a better sense of others' points of view or to sense how consumers would actually use new products. When Interval Research Corp. wanted its young designers... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
address the issues that kept them from being employed well in the past." The bakery's challenges include limited financial resources—its budget is $200,000 a year—and learning to be profitable while... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of business of the merchant or agent, who was called a “factor.” “We were not allowed to go beyond the limits of the factories (about a hundred yard square) except to the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
similar ways for a limited array of traditional services, and last for only one year. In essence, managed care comes in just two flavors: plans that place constraints on access to physicians and hospitals... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Land hired Adams as a consultant to Polaroid in the late 1940s, beginning a collaboration that would last decades. A technical master known for the clarity and depth of his photographs, Adams in his early observations as consultant noted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
the downsides of the cluster phenomenon. After the French tire maker Michelin introduced radial tire technology—which in effect doubled a tire's useful life—Akron tire companies quickly began to lose their... View Details
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America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind | Working Knowledge
expected to streamline business operations and render some functions obsolete, inexperience with digital technology could limit people’s careers. Tech experience gaps in the workforce could also leave... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
in a global arena.” Although security concerns limited students’ ability to move freely at several points in their stay, some were able to work around restrictions by involving... View Details
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
origin effect getting better across the region – or not? Have there been situations in South Asia where innovation is harmful to company or thecommunity? How should companies deal with innovations which... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
partners have a narrower view. For instance, decisions on where to source materials become more complicated if the multinational is trying to balance and manage a worldwide production process. Second, the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
also learned how difficult it was to get even great ideas off the laboratory bench and into the military 'marketplace.'" 28 Doriot sought out research taking place in universities such as the Harvard Fatigue Lab (housed on the HBS campus... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
effects of the economic shutdown and the ways in which small businesses are adjusting both their behaviors and expectations as the situation unfolds, the researchers aim to help shape potential policy... View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
reflected anxieties of the American audience, many of the brands failed to create stories that passed the acid test of good advertising—to create meaning that adds value for consumers and spur those who don’t use the products View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
organization to better understand how it functions and grows. “For me there was something very important about being able to converse and analyze a situation from many angles––investor, manager, employee––to... View Details
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
you to assemble your team more effectively by identifying what you need in your teammates - whether it's the CTO or the company's first couple engineers. Even in product management, technical proficiency can... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
under intense operational pressure is nearly impossible. In addition, the heavy burden of compliance with government regulations and internal corporate requirements is taking a toll on people, limiting their creativity, and causing them... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George