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  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new challenges. The company had become a leader in gasoline powered motorcycles and small gas engines, but increasing taxes and restrictions on the use of motorcycles in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

observational study included all patients undergoing a head CT between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014 at a large, urban academic ED with over 100,000 visits per year. The primary study outcome was total cycle time, defined as the elapsed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

consistent assessment, this article provides a framework to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of compliance programs. I present empirical models that use data collected from compliance initiatives—including whistleblower hotlines,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

the Cluster Mapping Project, uses statistical techniques to profile the performance over time of regional economies in the U.S., with a special focus on clusters. Clusters are geographically concentrated groups of interconnected... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

in India, especially in urban areas, is that when the monsoons hit, water fills the streets, leading to a lot of congestion," Sadun explains. "Traffic becomes a nightmare. It's like dealing with the worst snowstorm in Boston." According... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II, by Iris Chang, is such a poignant book about the lesser known, perhaps, Holocaust of World War II, and helps me understand more about my own history and ancestry. I think it’s so important for us to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

know what we are speaking about. But if we talked about making a market and earning consumers' trust, he would know exactly what we meant. Josiah Wedgwood Even though they didn't all use the word 'branding,' these three entrepreneurs knew... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

advertisers use in-house rather than independent advertising agencies and examines inter-industry variation in such internalization. Contrary to the widely held impression that use of an in-house advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from diverse ethnic, racial, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010, Weiss cofounded the Mayor’s... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Business History at Harvard Business School. Jones talked with us about the book. Sean Silverthorne: Given the growth of the Turkish economy and the country’s importance in geopolitical circles, it seems surprising that this book appears... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's corrupt government, which had erupted in Russia in response to alleged fraud in the recent parliamentary elections. A notable figure in the protests was anti-corruption blogger Alexey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

demand, and supporting infrastructures, including business ecosystems) and, when feasible, the wider institutional, regulatory, and even cultural context that conventional International business literature takes as a datum. This is examined conceptually and by View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

sells consumables including the 30,000 or so dollar stores in the United States. You only have to take a look at the UK supermarket space to see what is ahead for the US supermarket industry in this regard. Q: The book makes the case that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

  Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral pressures control bureaucrats with long-term career concerns.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the Netherlands has become a worldwide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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