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19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

a second is, how much will overall demand increase—since, now that it's legal, you'll have people demanding it who wouldn't have demanded it before." Early indications are that demand is there—and growing. Despite tight regulation, between January View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

in productivity in the U.S. in recent years. In fact, a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute has found that five of the top seven industries that have led productivity growth in the period of 2000 to 2003 are service industries like View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

November 1989
Case

NYNEX: An Executive Development Process

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Executive Education; Leadership Development; Telecommunications Industry

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September 1992
Case

Wegmans: The Work-Scholarship Connection Program

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Vincent N. Willis

Keywords: Education

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05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

conservative religious observance and policy from the Muslim "ulema." His domestic economic policy, which entailed diversification, infrastructure construction, education View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

challenges them to accept responsibility for their own education and gives them first-hand appreciation of the application of knowledge and skills to practice."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 2017
Teaching Note

AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market

By: Rory McDonald

Teaching Note for HBS No. 615-013. View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Strategy; New Markets; Grocery; Operations Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Emerging Markets; Learning; Service Operations; Online Technology; United States

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17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

that would directly welcome empowerment, companies whose value proposition evolves around consumer control should expect a slow start and work on consumer education and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

analytical skills, and universal frameworks that we can apply to HBS style case studies—the core of participant-centered learning in our MBA and Executive Education programs.... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

equilibrium of poverty.” (As a side note, one problem with Galbraith’s argument is that “labor exports” often involve people with the best education and skills, producing a brain drain. The result could well... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

Authors:Chung, Doug J. Abstract I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

2004
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Bristol City Schools (BCS)

By: Richard Elmore, Allen Grossman and Modupe N Akinola

Keywords: Education; Local Range

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24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

it had pledged to its early childhood education program, Group Up Great, in 2003. The case serves as an update to the "PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (A)" case, which outlined the design and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

October 20, 2020
Article

Expanding AI's Impact with Organizational Learning

By: Sam Ransbotham, Shervin Khodabandeh, David Kiron, François Candelon, Michael Chu and Burt LaFountain

Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant financial benefits from their efforts. Only when organizations add the ability to learn with AI do significant benefits become likely. View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Learning; Adoption

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November 1997
Teaching Note

G.A. Kleissler Co., Teaching Note

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Teaching; Information

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November 1997
Teaching Note

Disctech, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Teaching; Information

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12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

her venture. "When you are in a family background and you are socialized into that environment, you adopt certain ways of thinking and behaving and internalize certain values... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Nov 2014
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Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne