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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
management policy, which aimed at assuring a more secure environment for business. By the early twentieth century, however, the focus had shifted, from business to labor. As a result of industrialization, a great many workers had moved from the farm to the View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
the nascent smart cities industry and find that firm leaders engaged in a set of legitimation activities intended to help external stakeholders understand and appreciate the firm and its industry. Our analysis uncovers three unintended... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
rather crude reference to the bathrooms used by two or three suites of students.” An expert in the fields of consumer marketing and retail distribution, Walter Salmon (MBA ’54) graduated from the City College of New York and was admitted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
and instead of going to Goldman Sachs or whatever, they were going to go drive across the country for free. I mean, it was just kind of bizarre to people. And we showed up in Detroit the first week we were on the road. It was summer of 2013. It was the week the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
the local level, and typically filled rural niches for consumer goods. At their peak in the early 1990s, an estimated 19 million TVEs operated across the country. By contrast, the SOEs were controlled by various government ministries at the central, provincial, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
City and San Francisco, the School has a number of other efforts related to women and work. Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum -an Executive Education program designed for influential business executives that gives participants a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the Fund is to provide essential support, resources and thought leadership for uncovering and dismantling systemic racism and all of its various and insidious forms, within institutions in Boston and across the other 350 cities and towns... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the most well-known New York City nonprofits. Will Weiss, the executive director, has witnessed his share of chaos during four years at Big Apple. After a slight resurgence following the precipitous drop in ticket sales during the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
suited for a young, entrepreneurial organization. Start-up joiners need to do three things well: manage uncertainty, push the limits, and think like an owner. He then outlines four steps for choosing the right company: Pick a domain (find a field you’re passionate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
changes in the minimum wage at the city level. The evidence suggests that higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. However, lower quality restaurants, which are already closer to the margin of exit, are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
major cities and hold regular meetings to screen investment prospects, India has few such active networks. It’s not surprising then that 85 percent of the capital raised by Agarwala and Varma — they are not at liberty to disclose the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
top of the world, but it's facing competition and frankly, an ecosystem that is globalizing. And to give you a sense of how this story might evolve, I think we can look to a different city and a different technology. A hundred years ago,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
mandatory coverages such as in vitro fertilization) — is more expensive than originally anticipated. Another drawback is that an important cost-cutting feature — comparative-pricing information for services and procedures across cities... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem"-and the use of data to drive decision. In the case, managing director Jeff Edmondson is faced with two dilemmas: how to attract business engagement in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
taking risks." Click to watch. Eleven years later, that bet is more than paying off. As chief strategy and knowledge officer, Fenton is part of an executive team that has seen NLNS expand from training 13 aspiring principals in two cities... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT' Harvard Business School Case 609-062 Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is executing a strategy that leverages the desires of municipalities in China to build clusters of high technology companies. By... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
officer, Fenton is part of an executive team that has seen NLNS expand from training 13 aspiring principals in two cities to training more than 700 candidates across twelve urban centers last year. Early research shows that students in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
in January, when nearly the entire class of 905 traveled to one of 12 cities in 10 countries for a weeklong immersion to test their ideas in the local marketplace, make adjustments as needed, and deliver a final proposal to their global... View Details