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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
going to have to either train their workers themselves or go elsewhere to find customers. Bankers bemoan Dodd-Frank, but where is the financial industry’s proposal for adequate capital and an end to...
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- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
did in Developing the Afro-American Economy (1977) and Paying the Social Debt (1993). In Lift the Hood, he proposes that a surtax on the top 30 percent income bracket for thirty years would be the way to...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
too, have drawn practical lessons from artistic methods in design (Bolland and Collopy, 2004), music (Hackman, 2002; Zander and Zander, 1998), theatre (Austin and Devin, 2003), and other areas. Scholars have also proposed art principles...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
for yourself, how buildings can have an impact on our health, and how leaders can have an impact on today's biggest issues. A list of the titles, authors, and their abstracts are included below. American Business History: A Very Short...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar problem of quickly reacting to urgent View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
manner of Dell and Cisco. Because the majority of these transformations are ongoing, the ultimate success or failure of these undertakings is difficult to evaluate. General Motors, for example, is attempting to rehaul its business in four...
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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major...
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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report
Action Tamara Lytle Author tag Board Diversity The process of appointing powerful board directors has been put into the spotlight in recent years, as companies, courts, governments, investors and even a stock exchange weigh in. For the...
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- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
tests live at once. I analyzed the results (success!) and am proud to know that we’ll be launching both features permanently. In just a few short weeks, the solutions I proposed are now part of the app for...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It was a busy spring for alumni, both on and off the HBS campus. The Cleveland Conference, Reunions, and Club Officers Roundtable were each very successful and energizing events. Such occasions provide us with a unique opportunity to hear...
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John Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
wife, Anuradha, is uncompromising when it comes to my giving priority to family and friends. Thanks to her coaching, I’ve learned how to switch off my “crackberry” and how to say no to requests for meetings....
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- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of intellectual property in exchange...
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Martha Lagace
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions Course Number 1565 Professor Laura Alfaro Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Course Overview This course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds...
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- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
When I was 17, I moved to the US to study. Back home in Greece, the country was succumbing to a financial crisis. I questioned whether I would ever be able to move back to my country. Many years later, I find myself as Director of Business Operations View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
play together. For example, PepsiCo invited the public to propose new Lay's potato chip flavors, offering $1 million to the person whose flavor earned the most votes on the Lay's website. While many people...
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- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
propose a market rule that avoids excessive fragmentation while almost achieving social efficiency, and we argue that implementation of this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity View Details