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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit
addressing a particular disease. This methodology produces a list of health priorities for any given country or region. Recently, the team has inputted data from India into the Matrix, and plans are under way to expand its application to... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
MaterialsGoldwind USA: Chinese Wind in the Americas Regina M. Abrami, and Iacob Koch-WeserHarvard Business School Case 912-416 Many Chinese firms have struggled in the United States. Renewable energy is a fledgling, high-risk market. Can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
exposure to the extent possible by leveraging existing assets...and then go for it. In other words, much of the process — recognizing opportunity and marshaling ways to respond to it — could be taught to anyone. “Practicing with a coach... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Experimentation In August 2017, Commonwealth Bank of Australia was looking for ways to differentiate itself from competing banks and was also trying to improve the financial well-being of its customers. One domain where this was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine APRIL 15 As the reality of the conflict in Ukraine became clear in March, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) went searching for a View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
the book is a sequel to their 2009 work The Adventures of an IT Leader "We hope that this book inspires reflection and makes a contribution to developing our knowledge about CEO leadership in ways that can help us meet the needs of the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
solve crimes after they occur. They are phenomenal at that, as in the way they tracked down the Lockerbie perpetrators, to cite one case. That's a very different role from preventing terrorist attacks before they occur, which is their top... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
economic growth and the intensive and extensive margins of technology adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin refers to how many units... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Singapore, and Kenya. “I’m interested in tracing the way violence develops: the ideological reasons behind it, the bureaucratic reasons, the legal codes that enable this, and then also how it moves,” Elkins says. “You can trace the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
four different segments—food services, industry, retail, and beverages—and exported 17% of its production, mostly to the United States, Europe, and Japan. El Rey needed to grow, but Redmond wondered how to achieve growth and how to market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton Abstract What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
or $250,000, or simply will not lend to small businesses with revenue of less than $2 million, as a way to limit time-consuming applications from small businesses. This is problematic as over half of small businesses surveyed are seeking... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
worldwide brand already recognized for integrity and honesty, so much the better. The Globe and Post can fill that need. The objection has always been that there is no way to monetize such a role. Online advertising does not plug the gap... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
necessarily work in the same way for the video window. I think it is important to consider characteristics of audiences in both markets. Who goes to the theater? Who buys or rents videos? There obviously is some overlap, but I think the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
value. Hence, life settlements allow policyholders to capture a much larger, if not full, share of their contracts’ economic value. In this Industry Note, we lay out the basic structure of the market, the important players, and the basic economics. We also go into the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
sells something for $20 adds a penny cost, it’s meaningless. So we try to eliminate waste and increase productivity in every aspect, whether it’s compliance, shipping, handling, distribution, storage — we strive to find ways to deal with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
the same time turning Marxism upside down.” And one major way in which Schumpeter upended Marx was in his treatment of the controversial question of monopoly. Writing in the 1930s and early 1940s — a time of mounting public anger over... View Details