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- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209138 Fighting Malnutrition and Hunger in the Developing World Harvard Business School Note 909-406 The millennium objectives of reducing poverty and malnutrition are not being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
development of ten additional case studies—all presented in the forthcoming book The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed through Strategic Alliances (Jossey-Bass and The Drucker Foundation). Austin found that... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
senior director of financing land conservation at the investment bank Seale & Associates. “We’re finally seeing a real interest in environmental issues by family offices, private equity funds, and institutional investors,” he notes. One... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
with local public and private schools, enabling students to volunteer at All Souls on a regular basis. Young school children set tables and make centerpieces while older ones prepare food and wait on guests. "Students come away from the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
the shares of agencies and receipts they represent. Second, concentration levels in 1997 and 2002 varied across the nine sectors comprising the A&MS industry, but all were within the range generally considered as indicative of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
governor’s office of economic development in Utah, last year wrapped up an 11-year path of voyage and endurance spanning 38 countries, climbing 14.5 vertical miles, and sailing 35,000 nautical miles. “Real learning and personal growth... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
jeans can use up to six tons. Producing two pounds of wheat needs one ton, and two pounds of beef requires between 15 and 30 tons. "Despite looming water scarcity crises in the US and around the world, water is free and abundant in most of the View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
leverage the power of the private sector. In some developing countries, people are spending up to 40 percent of their meager incomes on cell phones, which proves that corporations are pretty good at figuring... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
What are some similarities and differences between local government and between the tech sector that we can really leverage to learn more about government services, and how to provide them more efficiently? Ingersoll: A lot of times what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
for business education. What must we do to ensure we remain an institution that educates leaders who make a difference in the world 10, 25, or even 50 years from now? This is a mission the world desperately needs us to fulfill. Business has the power to transform... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
grown men! I was out of my element and much too scared to talk in class." "I had a sense from the first day that ours was going to be a class in transition," says Mike Feeley, chairman of the Sino-American Development Corporation, who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
approximately welfare neutral. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-011.pdf Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Software Development (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
been dubbed the "Chongqing Model," a controversial bundle of reforms that promised public and private sector growth with benefits more equitably shared by all citizens. Yet critics found the model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
change framework to a more expansive, causal theory of innovation and competitive response. The assessment reveals that while the phenomenon of disruption has not changed, our understanding has as the theory developed and was refined.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to reach into View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
response organizations to adopt very different leadership strategies if they are effectively to cope with the differential demands of these events. In this paper, we develop further ideas about leadership under crisis conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
of monitoring by private civil-society actors can be particularly valuable in countries where government labor inspection agencies are weak.” That finding in particular may be helpful not only to a company looking to choose a country for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding