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31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and insurance education View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

innovate. In recent years, for example, we've launched three new courses—Finance II, The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Leadership and Corporate Accountability—in the required MBA curriculum, as well as a new prematriculation module on... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

Process of Strategy Making Harvard Business School Module Note 709-500 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709500 Supply Chain Optimization at Hugo Boss (A)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules and allows others... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2012
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Enterprise Reform Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Module Note 712-028 The note examines state capitalism in the twenty-first century. It introduces a series of topics and cases related to state capitalism, such as the debate about... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-004 Exploration vs. Exploitation This module note introduces James March's concept of exploration and exploitation, and the management challenge of... View Details