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- 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
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
effect on small business job creation, and thus, the jobs gap overall. Although there is no way to accurately measure the gap in this market, the evidence strongly suggests an imperfect market and acute impediments to creditworthy... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
"It is hard to compete in those niche markets. But it's also not clear that spending $100 million is a safe bet with an assured return. I think if I were a movie producer, I probably wouldn't radically change the way I do things. I... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
her belt, the likelihood of the sale being a spec drops to about 40 percent. Advice for the novice seller Apart from investing in the idea to further resolve uncertainty, other ways for unknown writers to gain access to prospective buyers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
remember the Bingo game we played during our first year. There were 15 student names on the ticket that could be ticked when they participated in class. I thought it was a good way to encourage class participation. But besides ticking off... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Then, students view alternative ways of making each call. The materials are intended to build skills and awareness relevant to personal selling and, in particular, to the role and importance of “up-front contracts” in structuring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
regulatory agencies serving the public instead end up advancing the interests of the companies they regulate. The main way companies accomplish this, economists theorize, is through lobbying and campaign contributions that convince... View Details
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
each other. Of course, there are several ways in which the U.S.-Mexico example is an unfair number to use to benchmark China-India trade. Those countries, even Mexico, are much richer than are China and India, and this means that their... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
silos are one reason for the lack of integration. More important, however, is the lack of a common framework and even language that would allow engineers, lawyers, and business executives to manage IP assets better. This article provides such a framework. There is no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the East Coast. The United States also succeeded in leveraging the threat of military force to obtain a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
Publications, 2011 Abstract The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
business scholar," said Maurice Cox, PepsiCo's vice president of corporate development and diversity. "Helping to endow the chair at HBS, as well as establishing the fellowship program in his name, is a small way for PepsiCo to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
with him and the School. Not only was he right, but he imparted his goodwill in a way we knew was a precursor to the much bigger shoes he was destined to fill. He cared and we knew it. Therein is the definition of his life. —Ron Benjamin... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
called The Life and Times of an American Leader. The reason that he's suspicious of it is because if you take 1,000 MBA students, for example, and said to those 1,000 MBA students, "Would you rather be a leader or a manager?" they'd all choose leader. Andy... 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
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Athens and is featured in boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. More importantly, Mareva says, HBS is where she and Kyriakos met in 1994, at a reception for Greek students at the now-bygone... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint