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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
China's burgeoning agriculture market with its unstated obligation to provide guidance and expertise in food safety, technology, and jobs for rural farmers while still competing against the growing cadre of international and domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
exposure to shift work, long work hours, job insecurity, work–family conflict, low job control, high job demands, low social support at work, and low organizational justice. Our model uses input parameters obtained from publicly View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Embrace/an/814001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-412 Beidahuang Beidahuang is a major new Chinese player in global grain trading that in 2013 is seeking access to grain both to help... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
by accessing his commitment to the larger purpose. Historians and biographers have pointed to a number of Lincoln’s strengths and their role in his leadership. But one of the most significant of these strengths is not often mentioned, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
access to some kind of electronic records system, only about half really use them. And backsliding into their old clipboard-and-paper ways of doing things leads to mistakes. For example, an estimated 30 percent of abnormal Pap smear... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
Bank estimated that 40 percent of the country’s population lacked access to electricity in 2016—“but we hope it encourages and inspires other leaders,” he adds. Entrepreneurs are key to Africapitalism, says Elumelu. That’s why the Tony... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
explains. “We walked around Candlestick wearing ‘We’re Listening’ buttons, with the goal of improving the fan experience as much as possible until we could build a better park.” New food concessions, the first female MLB public address... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
return from the program. Angella says SPNM participants represent a broad range of organizations championing arts, theatre, education, health care, addiction recovery, food security, climate resilience, and much more. “SEI’s partnership... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a month, and she sometimes had to choose between buying View Details
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an accessible superpower for business—and he is racing tech’s biggest names to make a long-promised future a reality. Complete Table of Contents March 2024 The War Within How three HBS alumni are helping Ukrainians process their... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
the job, having access to independent, high-quality research from outside sources can make a real difference both in developing good policies and in getting broad-based support for their implementation.” Researchers and Regulators The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from 10 countries, including new materials from Russia and China, many no longer accessible to... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
thrive. Many companies in travel and service businesses reward frequent users by bestowing a status that allows them the privilege of high-value services. Take, for example, British Airways, which allows Executive Club members the privilege of View Details