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- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
The dynamics of technology adoption are very persistent," Comin says. Extensive Vs. Intensive Margins While those findings were significant, Comin was puzzled by one apparent paradox related to the fact that technology adoption lags have... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- HBS Seminar
Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
need mentoring, they are likely to see, at best, only marginal productivity gains, while broad-based mentoring programs, with no opt-out provision, are likely to generate more impressive results, says Stanton. The companies that stand to... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Tan, HBS Carol Chyau, HKS Marie So, HKS Jose Dias de Barros, HBS Esther Hsu Social Enterprise Track Winner A steady source of income to marginalized communities in China by bringing “Yashmere” (yak wool) yarn and products to the U.S.... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
that helps feed the soul and contributes to the world. All the metrics that I learned in the for-profit world as an investor—return on invested capital, thinking about how you scale—are alive and well, every day, when you run an enterprise that’s focused on the most... View Details
- 22 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)
What are our priorities? We believe there could be a stronger disability culture at HBS and in many of the spaces that we occupy professionally and personally. Our vision is to bring historically marginalized voices to the center of our... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
risk and the cost of equity (the beta anomaly): As firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. They find that... View Details
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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment
justice—particularly the disproportionate effects on marginalized communities locally and globally. Impact Weighted Accounts The mission of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project is to drive the creation of financial accounts that reflect a... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
Taiwan, stored in Hong Kong, aggregated in parts, and sent in kits to China for assembly." All the suppliers in this chain are typically operating on very thin margins and tight schedules—any disruption can have severe consequences... View Details
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
Wheeler reminds students of a core strategic choice: assessing when to focus on dividing the pie and when to focus on growing it. "Sometimes getting 70 percent of the small pie might be better than getting 50 percent of a marginally... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
To realize the hopes of those early International Women’s Day activists—to make power more accessible and recognize the capabilities of marginalized voices—we need to tackle the systems that keep these barriers locked in place and move... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
care. It’s all the other expensive stuff that we need when we’re really sick. And Amazon is no expert in managing any of that. “Because Amazon might be able to introduce supply-chain disruptions that increase its profit margin does not... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
were not strong enough to prevent the growth of private labels in Europe, but they were sufficient to maintain Unilever's strong position in higher margin products. It was able to leverage knowledge of brands and products between... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
there is anything illegal about what Carrier, or many companies before it, is doing. It is carrying out the wishes of shareholders of its parent, United Technologies. As UT’s CEO, Greg Harris, put it in explaining his company’s continued high profit performance, “what... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
all of us. DeLollis: When it comes to race, technology, and tomorrow’s business outcomes, what advice would you give to CEOs, CMOs, and other top decision makers? Turner: I advise them that if marginalized people and women weren’t... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
do even better." The Bmw Bundle Although it's difficult to determine without additional research, Kumar says a bundling strategy is likely to find success with a variety of products—especially where one piece of the bundle is produced at very low cost. Digital... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
Agarwal MBA 2010 | Founder & CEO, Mati Carbon Removals “Mati uses enhanced weathering in agricultural fields for doing scalable, permanent carbon removals, with co-benefits to marginal farmers. Leveraging our proprietary technology, we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
that’s quite different from mainstream festivals. “This has been one of the most intentional and active responses to the #MeToo movement that I’ve seen in the music industry,” Gandhi says. This idea of creating space for marginalized... View Details
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Beth Clark | About
HarvardWIT+, a community dedicated to advancing marginalized genders in IT across Harvard. Her commitment extends through her involvement in EDUCAUSE , where she serves on the EDUCAUSE Review Advisory Committee (ERAC) and mentors the next... View Details