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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Behn says. “In the food manufacturing world, a lot of the waste is kept private. Major foodmakers won’t tell you how much they waste in the manufacturing process.” Instead the Imperfect team visited mainstream retailers, looked at the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
actions any more than you'd let them dictate yours." As a result, Wheeler is skeptical about one-size-fits-all negotiation strategies. An approach that succeeds in one context could be disastrous in another. That makes him equally critical of the two View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
disciplines which develop their own norms and conventions about interesting research questions and how to answer them. For several decades mainstream academic historians, especially those based in the United States, have devoted almost no... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
and even remade as movies have come to dominate mainstream media content. At media giant Sony, Ken Munekata, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), and Atsushi Fukuda, President of Sony Digital Entertainment (SDE), are attempting to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
expanding the number of years that you live well. So he talks about how you can impact the way you live. It talks about the metrics that they use that are beyond the mainstream metrics, and those are indicators of a good way to age... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
mainstream in the early 2000s. Leagues were organized by a central authority, and competitions were televised. Long before the rest of the world discovered the 21st-century sport, South Korean video gamers were held in the same regard as... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
institutions that lead to different translations of changes in attitudes and beliefs. For example, in the United States, there is little space for third parties, so the rise of populism has taken place within the mainstream parties,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge.... View Details
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
personal perspective on the China trade. Augustine Heard & Co. flourished at a moment when Westerners and Chinese were formulating diplomatic relationships and setting into place the business mechanisms that would bring China into the View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
inclusive viewpoint, observing, "There is no inherent conflict between capitalism and the needs of society." More specifically, he continued, the inner city must be brought into the mainstream economy, not classified as an area in need of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
touch with our shared humanity." It was a lack of such shared humanity, in fact, that motivated Slifka to establish The Abraham Fund after visiting Israel and finding that his Jewish friends there did not know any Arabs. "I discovered that there was no View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
essays on female ambition. To fuse her interests in performance and social justice, she founded Paprika Productions, an all-female production company that seeks to share the stories from cultural perspectives underrepresented in View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
anticipate that blogging and user-generated video would become mainstream phenomena within a few years. Because it turned a blind eye to these black swans and big trends, Speed Trap assumed that market shares would remain stable in key... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
cookies? Fresh out of HBS I opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston. Every morning I watched thousands of people walk by; no one bought cookies before noon. So I added fresh croissants and baguettes, two items that were not in the View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
mainstream press, led to the 2011 book The Progress Principle—a guide for managers who want to provide catalysts for progress among their employees. But the research also revealed a more meta result: Amabile realized the extent to which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers , Geoffrey A. Moore Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers: Understanding the Psychology of New-Product Adoption , John T. Gourville The Innovator’s DNA , Dyer et. Al Organization... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic environment. Former student Patricia... View Details