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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 2000. "The Global Traffic in Human... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
scheduling affect operational performance and the quality of labor at the stores. The case describes the tasks (both in-store logistics and customer service tasks) that are carried out by store employees at one Dillard's department store and presents nine weeks of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
When participation costs are large relative to the volume of traffic an ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
that sold their products locally. From Heinz's perspective, these companies had not yet begun to tap the possibilities of a broad national market. By concentrating initially on growing cities, he intended to expand his young business westward across the country.... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
even if it leads to leftover merchandise, can result in an increase in net recovery on the cost value of the inventory sold. Their approach also recommends higher markdowns at the beginning of the liquidation process than is typical, in order to benefit from the higher... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
series of labor-manager-owner conflicts—beginning with an air traffic controllers' strike in the United States in the 1980s—in which organized labor has suffered one defeat after another, often losing jobs in the process to more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
method to plot when enough bikes are needed to cut congestion or improve bike traffic flow. The next step, Ascarza says, may be to study how people who are traveling as part of a routine would respond differently to policy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
or a telemedicine appointment with a physician. “We were essential to their ability to direct traffic and get patients to the right services,” says Gardner. By mining the search data on the platform, Gardner and his team could see a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
and Copyright Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Abstract The advent of file sharing has considerably weakened effective copyright protection. Today, more than 60% of Internet traffic consists of consumers sharing music,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
potential partners, all of whom are extremely busy. Networked incubators have sprung up now because of the critical need for access: The Internet economy is very much a network economy in which access and connections can help quickly launch businesses, increase the... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and speed—data the company aggregates to present us with up-to-date... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
kind, and generous with their time and expertise. Every part of this course will be a fantastic way for students to learn and engage firsthand,” she said. “We saw and learned the traffic patterns influenced by cars, cows, and pedestrians... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
AI. “Think about a world of the future where every traffic light, every car, every street light is connected and they all speak to one another.” These trends all complement and accelerate one another, Menard says, and that bigger picture... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
returns, for example. It’s difficult for Amazon to process all those returns, and Kohl’s saw the fact that this would bring a lot of traffic to their stores as a positive effect, particularly younger people who would not otherwise go into... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Committee's state partners already had travel and tourism information on their own sites, the Host Committee's website simply included links to those specific resources. The website was also made mobile-friendly, which turned out to be a smart play. On game day, 80... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
health what WAZE has done for traffic congestion, Macomber says. “There is going to be substantially more awareness and interest on the part of the public, in terms of the quality of the spaces that they’re occupying, and they’ll be... View Details