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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
the existing target markets. Great enterprise selling happens at the intersection of true customer pain and a credible solution. Play to win the game! —Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) is a managing partner of Asymmetric VC, the chairman and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the internal processes that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
were asking important questions and making changes, and West saw companies taking initial steps to address diversity issues, including hiring diversity officers as senior executives. With a focus on diversity, the numbers began to show... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Destruction SCHUMPETER: Ambivalent about Harvard, uneasy about America, he wondered, “Why am I always so out of sympathy with my milieu?” COURTESY HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES, HUGB S276.90 In his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
with—and may displace—producer innovation in many parts of the economy. We argue that a transition from producer innovation to open single user and open collaborative innovation is desirable in terms of social welfare and so worthy of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Hoxworth Blood Center, where it was processed and stored. Parents paid an initial processing fee at the time of delivery and an annual storage fee in the month of the child’s birthday. At the time, most organizations dealing in blood were... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the Yogi Tea Company), for which he serves as executive vice president. "Our goal is to provide products and services... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural production without... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Address the Refugee Crisis A paper written by Swedish student Lovisa “Lisa” Tengberg (MBA 2020) for the spring 2020 elective Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change was selected for development as a case study. “Just Arrived:... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Typical of comments regarding the issue of choice were those by Mehmet Genc, who said, "As choice increases, search costs increase . . . [and] it takes longer to make a decision. At the same time, due to social changes, we have even... View Details
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
corporation’s New Haven Works subsidiary “family at their appointed tasks and to indicate provisions to safeguard their health and to provide opportunities for their welfare.” 40 Photographs and text thus served to humanize U.S. Steel as a caring, family-oriented View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
help students to conceptualize; for instance, how would they approach implementing a great idea or pursue a great opportunity? There are always enormous risks, so rather than take on the whole thing, we encourage them to approach it in stages. What little bit can I do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
especially those that incorporate emerging forms of social media, support that shift. Equally important, though, is the emergence of cultural norms that favor dialogue over monologue. The benefits that accrue from conversational... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy we consider concerns the level of future Social Security benefits. Specifically, we examine how an agent would respond to learning in advance whether she will experience a major Social Security... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
activism are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not detectably different from zero for targets that remain independent a year after the initial activist request. Announcement returns show a similar pattern.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
organizations evolve over time. With HBS assistant professor Lakshmi Ramarajan and Deborah Kolb from the Simmons School of Management, McGinn is looking at two decades of archival information on activities and beliefs at Deloitte, known for its View Details