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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
sometimes we don't." BEFORE: Infrastructure investments made by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Ghana targeted poor road conditions and a lack of reliable electricity in rural areas. Photo courtesy of MCC In effect from 2007 to... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates Texas’ electrical grid). Power demand broke records 11 times and exceeded 80,000 MW for the first time in history. “Creating something from nothing takes tenacity, but it is... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
present their own priorities. But having reliable information about what they can do to keep themselves safe and healthy is extremely important. What surprised me is how much even a small amount of information on thinking about their own... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
communities. For example, I saw firsthand in Africa that communities with reliable infrastructure had more access to economic opportunity, which, in turn, offered social and economic mobility. I pursued the MS/MBA program to explore these... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
enable a company to assemble seamless and reliable real-world products that can thrive in a demanding marketplace. Iansiti's work provides a blueprint for the radical restructuring of corporate research and product development. The... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
we like former MIT professor Edgar H. Schein’s iconic framework, which loosely divides organizational culture into artifacts, behaviors, and shared basic assumptions. As Schein argues persuasively, to get people to reliably behave the way... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
largely limited to those who can pay. Right now, it's simply too hard for would-be parents to get accurate and reliable information. Q: What about the market for babies who have already been born? In your book you bring up Guatemala and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge impact on the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
to invest in retailing. Product Markets. Developing countries have opened up their markets and grown rapidly during the past decade, but companies still struggle to get reliable information about consumers, especially those with low... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World
company built for the transgender community. There are more than 1.4 million trans-identified people in the US, yet it is still one of the most underserved communities when it comes to safe, accessible and reliable health care. At Plume,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas, through pipelines in Ukraine, to Europe. Abdelal's... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
continued despite school closures, including developing free, printable reading and math activity packs in English and Spanish. It also developed teacher guides to keep K–8 students learning even if they didn’t have reliable internet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
self-improvement, resulting in levels of profitability, quality, efficiency, and reliability unmatched by rivals. The book shows how to build and manage such a system of dynamic discovery. The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
disputed pipeline fees, unsigned contracts, bad faith, and, ultimately, failed negotiations. Although other neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a View Details
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business? In a new study, Assistant Professor Michael Luca shows just how much restaurant reviews on Yelp affect companies' bottom lines. The more difficult question: Are these ratings reliable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
scientific advisory board.) When he heard Samzelius’s ideas, Mahley recognized that many of the characteristics that made typing cadence a promising data security solution also made it a promising diagnostic tool because of its View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Gerdeman: Can you touch on the implications user innovation has on competition? Lakhani: In many ways, what the research is showing is that companies can reliably work with external sources of innovation—users, communities, even... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
company with a strong commitment to the goals of improving the safety of its products and the reliability of its supply chain, the authors of this article suggest that companies have the ability and the means to change their investor base... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn inferentially in dynamic... View Details