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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
mortgage or with very little debt. Unlike in the United States, banks are also less on the line in real estate. We should always keep in mind that the Chinese property market was stagnant or worse (nonexistent) for 30 years after the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful public-policy debate to a subject... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
the vicious cycle of poverty, and/or how aid can be used effectively. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707029 Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (B) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
firm's integrity have been issues in American business since the rise of the corporation more than two centuries ago. So why this cycle of greed, why this eruption now? I think it goes deeper than just the rising stock View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
agronomist researches the matter and sends a tailored reply within 24 hours. The more information a farmer shares with PAD—about planting practices, market prices, or soil conditions—the more its recommendations improve with time. “The... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
fact," says Davis, "more than two-thirds of all business enterprises worldwide are owned or managed by families, and 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are family owned or controlled." In Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are uniquely positioned to serve or appeal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
said. (To learn more about Edmondson's research on speaking up, see the Harvard Business Review article, Why Employees are Afraid to Speak.) Thin Political Markets Karthik Ramanna's presentation focused on "Thin Political Markets,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during the current stock View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
to wait for payment for the work they had performed. With small businesses responsible for nearly $100 billion in contracts with the federal government, our goal was to get this cash to these small firms faster, so they could expand their businesses, View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
the much-neglected soil back to life through rotational grazing. “Nutrients cycle from the grass through our cows and sheep, and wind up back in the soil,” explains Reade. The global market for organic food... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
to any business school grad: setting up accounting systems, developing marketing strategies, monitoring performance, analyzing competition, creating business plans and feasibility studies, pricing, developing and evaluating project... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
New inventors received more patent citations than incumbent inventors, suggesting a cycle of creative destruction. The financial returns to technological development were high. At the macro level we identify a strong relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne