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- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
internships in venture capital and at an ag-tech startup before school, I saw how unsuccessful commercialization was often a key barrier to large-scale deployments of new scientific discoveries and innovations in food-tech, ag-tech, and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
internships in venture capital and at an ag-tech startup before school, I saw how unsuccessful commercialization was often a key barrier to large-scale deployments of new scientific discoveries and innovations in food-tech, ag-tech, and... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human capital across several generations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
typology of social entrepreneuring models. This typology is based on four possible forms of capital that can be leveraged: social, economic, human, and political. Furthermore, our findings reveal that these four social entrepreneuring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2018
- Teaching Note
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
effort to strengthen “reasonable price” provisions in California law, pushing for standardized prescription compounding and pricing, as well as price schedules set by manufacturers. “The history of American capitalism has always been... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
departures of senior partners; and (c) the departures of senior partners have negative effects on the ability of funds to raise additional capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50943 Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
reviews from Yelp.com, we construct an adjusted average rating and show that even a simple algorithm can lead to large information efficiency gains relative to the arithmetic average. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
productivity revolution due to the loss of skills in society. "The other key underpinning is education," he continued. "In South Africa in particular, the legacy of apartheid was extremely destructive, and human capital... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
the organizations they studied responded to their post-reform competitive environments in roughly four stages: Stage I: Turnaround and Catch-up. Recognizing that their efficiency and quality levels were far below those of world-class... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
anything having to do with globalization. But in 2006, some new areas of HBS faculty research began to emerge that also struck a chord with readers. These included the business of open source, how network effects impact everything from venture View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
tenants to pay the cost of utilities, which reduces a landlord's incentive to invest in LEED, or in other energy efficiency capital expenditures. However, government lessees are attractive to landlords... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea of gray stretching into the haze. No one knows for sure how big metropolitan... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods markets with societal implications,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
regional and global markets, and, most important, enhance their productivity. All this can be done far more efficiently in the region than with far-off partners. Whole new industries can grow up in these countries, and existing industries... View Details