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01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

round we finished with the highest score from a couple of judges and a dead zero from those who pointed out that they were asked to rate plans on financial return,” says Fenton. “I didn’t think I’d be working on NLNS for more than three... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Science, the American Accounting Association, and the American Economics Association. Graduating from Cornell University in 1952, Christenson continued his education at HBS, where he earned an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

enables downloads to be faster. While this "direct effect" seems obvious, our analysis also takes into account the following "indirect effect": The behavior of peers may vary when infrastructure improves. As... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

May 2022
Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, savior of the East India... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

Mexico, he says, when a city suffers a natural disaster, it just comes back by force of government. There were some doubts, sure. “I mean, you maybe questioned whether the orchestra would have any kind of financial backing. But I guess... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

aren’t that clear.” Despite the pain of Quincy’s failure, Wallace doesn’t regret the experience. “I’m more fulfilled when I’m scrappy and building something, so I’m grateful to have been ripped away from the notion that I need financial... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers making a dollar or two a day couldn't afford the View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We didn't have a lot of View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

maps. After their initial investment in April of 2013, Lo describes the business as “failing to launch.” There was a leadership deficit and a business model that hadn’t accounted for returning investor capital—which included a significant... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

regional clusters. Naomi Lamoreaux and others have also underscored the financial and regulatory conditions in which innovation has flourished. Large datasets and econometric methods have enabled researchers to come up with powerful... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

States after having done my undergraduate degree in India and my chartered accountancy and studying at the Indian Institute of Management, at Ahmedabad School, by the way, which was founded in collaboration with the Harvard Business... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

his staff's recommendations to approve new schools, let current charters expand, or close those plagued by low performance or financial mismanagement. "We give them many years of warnings, and we publish a report every year that shows... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are driven by firms themselves (e.g., the H-1B... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

recent years, we have learned that applying standard formulae to corporate transformations is, at best, ineffective and, at worst, dangerous. What's needed is a new approach that enables executives to transform organizations proactively... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

to pursue economics and East Asian studies, which was, she says, "a natural combination considering my background and Asia's burgeoning economic growth." Contemplating a career in law, Ma decided to first gain some professional experience as a View Details

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

then need to consider one of three strategies: Enhance the Value of the Box, Shrink and Transform the Format, or Wind Down. Sean Silverthorne: Why do you think we are at an inflection point? Ecommerce has been around for several decades, yet still View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

Few are more familiar with this upheaval and transformation than '71 classmates Carty, Charron, and Harad, whose companies American Airlines, Liz Claiborne, and Boise Cascade, respectively, are setting standards for success in this... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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