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- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
does it take to find a reliable vaccine? What can you tell ... Could you just help me understand what does it take? Frazier: Well, first of all, it takes a lot of time. I think the record for the fastest vaccine ever brought to market was... View Details
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
make big leaps. “Doing something that works, that's quick, that is going to be reliable is one approach forward,” Lane says. “But imagine what you want to create and where you want to be 50 years from now—little incremental improvements... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Beach, Florida. NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light Company, which is America’s largest electric utility that sells more power than any other utility, providing clean, affordable, reliable electricity to approximately 5.8... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
from online attacks and to help clean up malicious botnets while receiving faster, more reliable and more robust network services. Novophage Therapeutics Ann DeWitt Michael Koeris Tanguy Chau Tim Lu Business Track Runner-Up Novophage... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Jacobs (MBA 2007) CEO & Cofounder, Generate Capital Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007) CEO & Cofounder, Generate Capital In 2014, Scott Jacobs cofounded Generate Capital, a leading sustainable infrastructure platform delivering affordable, reliable... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
reliable source of recurring investments for managers raising subsequent funds. Silverthorne: What roles and value do we see anchor investors bringing to impact investment funds? For funds seeking to find anchor investors, where are some... View Details
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
is true in software, where you have the added benefit of being able to give some of your work to a computer, which can process it more reliably and quickly than a human." More time, coupled with a better understanding of the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
kind of social contract, a promise of a certain mix of quality (D1), service (D2), novelty (D3), and reliability (D4) that adds up to a value that justifies the price. Of course, shareholders have always been seen as caring only about the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
robustness by consistently incorporating technological innovations and by providing a reliable point of reference that helps participants respond to new and uncertain conditions. And they can encourage ecosystem niche creation by offering... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
three-color printing processes. In general, color printing was more complicated and expensive than black and white, and its results less reliable and “realistic.” Trade journals essentially considered black and white “preferable to lurid... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
generally have below-average reliability ratings from Consumer Reports, which could contribute to why owners get rid of them so quickly,” said iSeeCars CEO Phong Ly, in a statement accompanying the report. Owners of ultra-high-end... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
implement safeguards against uses of their output intended to degrade privacy, the reliability of information, independent thought, and user behaviors. Shareholders would step forward to demand changes in the way information is deployed... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
source. Poor “play[ed] a major role in the development of one of modern business’s most important ancillary services, the provision of reliable information,” Alfred Chandler notes in his biography Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
invests in companies providing services, products and technologies for the energy industry. They have traditionally focused on services for the Oil & Gas industry but are now committing capital to companies operating to monitor and reduce carbon emissions, improve... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
negotiated for herself and others? Business people often ask us whether men or women are better negotiators. According to our research, gender is not a reliable predictor of negotiation performance; neither women nor men perform better or... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
competence, and free up resources, which can be used to combine data bits in creative ways to add value. Relatively bulletproof operational reliability will be a key part of the price of success. Back-office or server farms, help desks,... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
international development and microfinance. Today, as cofounder of pathZERO Energy, she’s leading an effort to help businesses transition to cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy solutions through improved efficiency, better data, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
as if I had a private tutor in the room with me,” one student remarked, while others said the tool was not as reliable as they had hoped, causing them to lose trust in its capabilities. Nevertheless, Farronato sees it as an opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie