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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
while stripping away what's not—leaving the rest to be delivered by the established player. In the case of Skype, for example, the service decouples talk/text from the underlying (and expensive) connectivity provided by the telecom company. More recently, says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
full time from home; providing additional or enhanced personal protective equipment; creating a physical barrier between work stations (for example, Plexiglas screens or individual offices); and changing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
ideals to which advertisers hoped consumers would aspire, and changing ideas about the interrelationship of fine art and commercial photography. Across more than seven decades, the collection has traversed the worlds of advertising, art,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-117.pdf Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend, and James Vickery Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
design decisions, asking themselves the following questions: 1) Are we providing too much information? In many cases, the simplest, most effective change a platform can make is to withhold information such as race and gender until after a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
perspective over the last 30 years, they write, with these changes often occurring in tandem with broader developments in psychology and in society as a whole. Most recently, analysis has begun to look at social or personal factors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
have already been 144 HBS cases written on Latin American companies. "So this is not a new effort," he said. "It's just a more organized effort, and we are trying to lower the barriers for our faculty being involved."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
a “thirteener” and the highest mountain in New Mexico. But they’re about to be retired. Rad Versus Trad Kim and Coup once lugged heavy gear on their outdoor adventures, too. “It was the old-fashioned view of backpacking,” Kim says. Then in 1998 Coup read a book that... View Details
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Women's History Month | Baker Library
May/June 1984 issue unpacks how women play a vital role in economic development, but face barriers like discrimination, limited education, and restricted financial access. However, when given the proper resources—such as microloans and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
occurred, causing 1 to 2 million deaths. The H5N1 virus is treacherous — we know that it can jump the species barrier to infect humans and that it is prone to mutation. Indeed, every case of human infection increases the probability that... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
there's still not a lot in the growth stage. What can we do to fix that? Dodi: Well, that's the million dollar question or billion dollar question. Because also across the board, the landscape has changed from even 10 years ago. We don’t... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
business leaders had to have demonstrated at least four consecutive years of top financial performance, and/or they had to have led a business or service that changed the way Americans lived, worked, or interacted in the twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
barriers to entry into the business. Besides enabling many Chinese branded manufacturers to enter the business, the grey market in components unleashed a complementary market of "Shanzhai" makers. Together these firms captured a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
seem unlikely soil for agribusiness, the School actually had an ag industry course before I arrived. And Dean David, who himself came from an agribusiness background, wanted to improve the relationships in the value-added food system. Over the years, I’ve seen View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
clusters is the idea that immigrants could be forced into them by discrimination or high barriers to enter other fields. “Many industries require certain standards be passed or degrees from accredited schools, which can be difficult for... View Details
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
manufacturing and industrial space. A recurring theme among them was the way in which each had led their companies through massive technological changes, with everything from automation to analytics and software systems implementation. But also how much continued View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
it’s the birthplace and the namesake of those concrete barriers that line America’s highways, the home of the country’s busiest toll road, and a place where summer nights seem custom-made for cruising to the Shore, or nowhere special,... View Details