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14 Apr 2015
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How crowdsourcing could help simplify America’s tax code

23 Nov 2014
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Brewing Your Own Beer, With Help From an App

28 Mar 2021
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Kominers' Conundrums: ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ in Seven Puzzles

28 Nov 2023
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An Entrepreneurial Approach to Strategy

Rembrand M. Koning

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Keywords: high technology; software; biotechnology

19 Jul 2012
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New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition... View Details

Keywords: Society; United States

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06 Aug 2015
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Women in Business — Sreedhari Desai

26 Jun 2015
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Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity.

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT, 18 May 2021
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Books@Baker: Mitchell Weiss

Is government too big, too slow, and too mired in bureaucracy to tackle climate change, crumbling infrastructure, and other tough social problems? Join HBS professor Mitchell Weiss as he talks about these and other ideas from his new book, We the Possibility:... View Details

30 Mar 2023
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Generating Breakthrough Therapies: Risk and Reward

Michael E. Porter

Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government

26 Apr 2011
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The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis

Keywords: by Andrew A. King & Karim R. Lakhani

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had businesses when you were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2011
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R & D tax cut could expire

03 Sep 2013
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Congress to Decide U.S. Involvement in Syria as World Watches

20 Apr 2017
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Earth 2.0: Is Income Inequality Inevitable?

02 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most [underwater] owners live... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

October 2015 (Revised January 2017)
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P&G Canada: Old Company, New Tricks

By: Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang and Theresa Morin Hall

P&G Canada faces ongoing global pressure to increase productivity and reduce spending. Thom Lachman, president of P&G Canada, is seemingly out of options that will make a large enough impact without harming the business, until the idea of a radical space reduction... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Human Resources; Change Management; Transition; Consumer Products Industry; Canada

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