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public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. Individual account required. Please see the More... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Runner-Up Katherine Kwei is a luxury handbag company focused on creating pieces that are a mix of sophistication and edge, blending into the wardrobe of the well-heeled woman. Social Enterprise Track, 2007 India Info Village Rita Singh,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
particularly tough time. During the 1990s small investors lost out to professional financial firms that manipulated the market; this time they're likely to lose out—if they're not careful—to other sophisticated investors as well. The Next... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
No one defines the word “effective,” and I think it's led to a lot of different views and opinions about what that means. Over time, companies are becoming more sophisticated, and prosecutors are also becoming more sophisticated in... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
knowledgeable about the strategic and business benefits of IT. Companies that encourage and incorporate this integrated and more sophisticated capability within their organizations will have an edge over those that have to rely on... View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
is the morally correct path. “To say the rules should never be broken isn’t completely forthright and honest, so this is basically a sophisticated way to capture that,” Minor says. Another factor could be more Machiavellian applicants... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
through credit. 26 London merchant banks such as Baring Brothers & Co. provided Heard & Co. with credit, and the China trade in turn brought a significant increase in banking profits. 27 “With the sophistication of credit instruments, it... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
as individuals. Thoughtful practitioners will find the sophisticated level of discussion in the book refreshing in contrast to the one-size-fits-all models that you might pick up at the airport. Leadership has to be understood through a... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
over others. With Armstrong's great wealth, he was able to put together a much more sophisticated doping operation than less successful cyclists. By contrast, Armstrong's teammate Tyler Hamilton made no such excuses when he testified two... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
to support the elderly. Those demands will especially rise in warm weather locations—Florida and Arizona, in particular. And those services tend to take two distinct forms: The high end involves lots of IT operated by lots of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
than one-third of them American—who among them speak 89 languages in 83 offices in 45 countries. As client companies became more sophisticated and demanding, another change during Daniel's watch was a move away from the role of consultant... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
commercial and trade activity and agreements, with mountains of up-to-the-minute data available to firms and governments for making sophisticated projections, why do industries and countries continue to overproduce and create such... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
the first phase of their employment, the hurdle was merely learning how to do the routine work for which they were responsible. Soon thereafter though, they learned how to immediately identify problems that occurred as they did their work. Then they learned how to do... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
financing that ranges from micro loans to help home-based businesses buy delivery trucks to sophisticated loans to build factories, she believes the SBA can stimulate "not just initial product creation, but production innovation,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
each other for decades. I was really rooting for spouses to have an edge!” Computers make good recommendations, but do people want to listen? Businesses are investing heavily in sophisticated computer algorithms that rely on past consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
sell toothpicks; you can just follow a linear regression line. But if you are trying to sell a three-quarter-length floral print dress that’s only available for one season, you need more sophisticated models to predict inventory needs.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
Harvard’s and the Metropolitan Museum’s seven-digit-or-more gifts tend to be handled by the CEO and professional development staff. These organizations have large staffs of major gifts officers, sophisticated databases, and computer... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
Delicate Balance For nearly 80 years, the FDA has performed a delicate balancing act between getting life-saving drugs to market, and ensuring that those drugs will be safe when taken by patients. In order to serve that dual function, the FDA has drawn up View Details