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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War II embraced credit access as a means to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and how can that apply to the United States? One reason is the sophistication of finance. The other is the growth of three specific technologies. Sophisticated financial tracking and smart mobile phone technology The sophistication of financial tracking View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
particular, which means that profits are going to be higher. As a result, stockholders will get a bigger share of the pie. That raises stock prices all over the place. A related effect is the issue of repatriating profits from abroad –... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
dismayed by the actions of Kumar, as well as the recent allegations against Gupta and were closely monitoring the situation. Could a former Managing Director of their Firm have conspired to enable insider trading? And if so, what did that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
checked my email, and saw a message from the editor of Forbes welcoming me to the “30 Under 30.” I immediately shared the good news with my family and had a great day!” What does this honor mean to you, personally and also professionally?... View Details
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
production, and marketing made it well poised to take on what became known as the SX-70 project (SX meaning “special experiment”). 10 “What we have learned at Polaroid,” Land said, “is the homogeneity and the continuum between science and... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
"The able and fine manufacturers all over the nation...gave practical sense and meaning to my classes," he wrote, helping students "not only to reflect, but to act." 18 His guest lecturers over the years included Leslie Groves, the head... View Details
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
Business School Online. Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This means completing each course module and fully answering questions posed therein by the required deadline. This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
individuals who have an idea and a passion to extend it, but because we want the projects to have some scale, we insist on teams of three or four, which means they have to recruit teammates. A number of these teammates are essentially... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Forbes welcoming me to the “30 Under 30.” I immediately shared the good news with my family and had a great day!” What does this honor mean to you, personally and also professionally? Pradhan: “This really is a team award. On the personal... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8, no. 1 (July 2008) Abstract We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
important open-ended question: What does a positive outcome mean to you? "We were getting all these different answers, and very few of them mentioned survival," Feeley says. "We came to the realization—as did ICHOM in doing... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Renaissance Italy to the nineteenth-century USA to South Korea in the 1960s and contemporary China. This does not mean that governments always know what they are doing, far from it, but it does indicate that our debates should be over... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Publication:World Development 38, no. 3 (March 2010) Abstract Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
discussed his thoughts on the current business environment and how deals get done with HBS Working Knowledge. Julia Hanna: Talk a little about what you mean by "negotiauctions." Guhan Subramanian: If you put aside fixed-price... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
entrepreneurs can achieve both—the Larry Ellisons of the business world are few and far between. In fact, there is a fundamental tension between the money side and the control side—getting rich often means selling control to investors;... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
what he is actually saying. In other words, Tony's experiences serve as a peculiarly helpful warning. The word experience comes from the Latin words ex pericolo, which mean "from danger." By thinking through Tony's crime and... View Details