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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads in order to attract talent (back). But under which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline, $6 billion Iridium global satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique, and $20 billion Sakhalin II... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
chief supply-chain management officer, chief human resources officer, and CEO. It offers a road map for ambitious managers who want to know which skills they should focus on developing in order to rise up the chain of command. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
while respecting its unique hybrid business model that combined a collaborative open source community with more traditional strategic research services. The case follows CGTI from its initial goal of establishing a road map for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
companies? In their recent book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America (Harvard Business School Press), two HBS faculty members, Associate Professor David Thomas and Professor John Gabarro, explain that the View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
Facebook will automatically display an advertisement for a substitute nanny who has worked for four close friends and who can step in and pick up my child. Granted, this has the heavy feel of the movie "Minority Report" taken to its ultimate limits, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
others. The flip side of that, he said, is joy in the success of others, where "immediately, where one succeeds, the other members of the community celebrate because they believe that means they, too, can be on the road to... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
"What UIDAI is creating is a road, a road that connects every individual to the state," Nilekani said in the case. "How each one of us uses that road, how far we travel along it, is up to each one of us." Under... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
building a bedroom suburb or a freewheeling entrepreneurial hub. A competitive infrastructure is vital: Each of these projects put down a main trunk road of more than 20 kilometers, with room for mass transit in the median. Each invested... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
ability to do what's necessary to move the company from one place to the other. As a result, you're likely to end up with the problem HBS professor Clay Christensen has identified as discontinuity. That's no way to put a company back on the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
mainstream customers. Therefore, a key issue is who do you do business with initially who lets the venture start moving down the "right" product road map? Who do you do business with initially who can help you on the path of... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic control offers View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
faced a long road to seal the deals, and a lot of work lies ahead. "While on the surface it is a laudable vision to get one laptop to each child, and the motives are pristine, there are stumbling blocks in implementation,"... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Campus roads are strategically curved so that no extended stretch of asphalt is visible from any point on campus. Such visual shielding of the bystander's perspective helps provide "as much domestic feeling as [is] reasonable"... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
scale. The authors propose that the concept of government as a minimalist platform-focusing on a handful of tasks and doing them well-was the key to success. The administration focused on land allocation, roads (mostly for walking),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
coming of age of biotechnology. The disappearance of "blockbuster" drugs could create new management challenges for pharmaceutical companies. — Gary Pisano The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
may be a viable option. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207098 Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road Harvard Business School Case 707-031 Covers President Lula's challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
computer simulation highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for government services. In Study 2 (N=125), Boston... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
compared to a market price of $23. Elizabeth Kemp, the portfolio manager of a long-only technology fund at Sand Hill Road Capital, had bought 500,000 shares at the IPO price and had to decide whether to harvest her gain or to double down... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne