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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
greater caste diversity tend to be poorer. You also hear a surprising number of accounts of women being involved as fighters in the Maoist insurgency. And of course women in Nepal face a lot of discrimination just like they do in many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
television programming but also in new areas like gaming. “It's a different kind of creativity.” There's all this experimentation on the Internet because the number of people using the Web is going up all the time. Most people have... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
can print out customized shopping lists complete with recipes, coupons, and suggestions for replenishment purchases. Retailers can tailor their services in any number of ways using the available technology--if they focus on how it can... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
heartburn, advertising may do more harm than good. Silk: Keep in mind that the use of DTCA by pharmaceutical companies is quite selective in that it tends to be concentrated in a relatively small number of therapeutic classes. The... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
managed properly it is the culmination of a development process that takes place over a number of years, led by the CEO working with the board of directors. In the ideal situation several candidates will have been developed, each of whom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
strong evidence that p*t is the single factor driving option-implied jump risk measures in the cross section of firms. This is a core assumption of the rare disasters paradigm. A number of empirical patterns further support the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
office to pass along the fax number so the document could be sent. "This is not consumer empowerment. This is consumer enslavement," he says. "The consumer's time is being eaten up unnecessarily doing bureaucratic work.... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
from large groups of people is exactly what nonprofits and political campaigns have been doing for more than a century. In today's world, though, the Internet has dramatically altered the ability for companies and independent entrepreneurs to get their ideas in front... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
hard to believe that merely having an iPad will lead you to content that might make you change the way you think." The Business Of Innovation Creating culture-changing products and building industries around them is difficult on a View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax-related felonies. In the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
raise awareness amongst scientists and researchers in his organizations of the benefits of open innovation as a successful and efficient way to collaborate on difficult research problems regarding health and space travel. Despite a number... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
base. But many ventures simply partition markets based on what is identifiable and accessible via purchased customer lists, SIC codes, LinkedIn, Facebook, or the sheer number of cold calls. Sales may be made, but it's the result of a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
attention would carry over to other new product endeavors. Students are presented with a number of new product concepts and the findings from both qualitative and quantitative market research. This allows for a rich discussion of how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
characteristics have to contend with the fact that we already make taxes and transfers depend on some characteristics, such as the number of children and physical disabilities. Why would height open the door to abuses if these have not?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
instance—and "go back to the core" because they knew they could make their annual numbers that way. So, when Urquhart recognized an opportunity to grow from underwriting "big-ticket power projects"—the core... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
and pharmaceutical industries since the 1970s. Without new learning from chemical science and engineering, the chemical companies have defined their strategic boundaries in a number of specialty chemicals whose basic technologies were... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
geared toward women over thirty—is one product that emerged from this approach. The cream drew on existing technologies but combined a number of them into an integrated product that specifically served the needs of Brazilian women. Pommez... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Science at Harvard (LISH) has a long history of working together with Harvard Catalyst at Harvard Medical School to identify interesting innovation and process problems in translational biomedical areas. We have conducted many research projects together and published a... View Details