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- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
"boundaries" that form when organizations grow that present the "potential for clashes and struggle." Bob Brown attributed it to "risk aversion combined with lack of vision, drive, and prescience View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Ismaili Muslim faith, called to request that he take a three-month leave to advise Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communications on the development of new telecoms in the country. Khoja was already doing some pro bono work View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
after Macmillan indicated it would begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books than Amazon's standard charge of $9.99 for new releases. Amazon capitulated after a few days: Under Macmillan's new terms,...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
Norquist Illustration by Rob Barber Grover G. Norquist (MBA ’81) may not be a household name, but he’s definitely a Washington institution. As president of Americans for Tax Reform, which he founded in 1985, Norquist has aggressively...
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Government
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
student, Paul Milgrom, who wrote a superb dissertation on auctions. We came up with a proposal for the FCC to sell spectrum licenses simultaneously, rather than one by one. Professional auctioneers were...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the...
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- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
partners. Competition for funds among groups may inspire applicants to perform at a higher level: When announcing it was accepting proposals for its Youth Programming Wellness...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the...
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- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
PBS Hour dug deep into the scene's underworld and found that all roads lead to the Mutiny, this glitzy hotel in Coconut Grove that was a hub for celebrities and the epicenter of a global drug trade. Farzad spoke with the Bulletin's...
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- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
iStock SUMMING UP Is 100 Percent the ‘Magic Percent’ of Rebel Talent Every Organization Needs? How much “rebel talent” is a necessary minimum? How much is too much? And how should it be deployed, especially when it comes to management? View Details
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by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
several 300-plus-page business plans prepared for earlier proposed (but never shipped) products—and assessing the market. He soon realized that, while Xerox understood the nature of the technical problems,...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
Ramesh Vemuganti commented, “Mind boggling innovations & rapid technological advancements (are) retaking the world into an undesirable no man’s land the worst hit will be India & China ” A number of proposals were advanced View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
and the corporate sector in is not easy today because there’s far more sexy stuff to work on out there. I think we have to just persist because it is such a critical area for the country, for just healthy...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
before and after the policy change. We find that these responses increase significantly after the policy change. These stronger responses partly occur while the review is still ongoing and persist on average for two years. Corroborating...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
and British Airways' 1999 Tourism for Tomorrow Award for the Pacific region. Living on Turtle Time The idea of creating a resort, however, occurred to Evanson only after Columbia Pictures View Details
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
challenge is to hammer out details for implementing changes in the three areas where there’s broad agreement for action. Ideas abound. In response to an invitation from Light, fifty faculty members sent the...
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- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
and AIDS exert such power to wreck communities and companies that they should almost be viewed as a metaphor for "disruptive technology" along the lines of the model proposed by HBS Professor...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
ensure that buyers and sellers who don’t know each other trust that the transactions will be safe and of high quality? This is the fundamental role of online platforms: aggregating information that is useful for buyers and sellers who...
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