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- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
as pure profit maximizers, assuming that market forces alone will ensure that farmers benefit. Even when e-intermediation benefits farmers, it is insufficient to mitigate the negative effects of supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
(iii) the effects of supply are stronger for longer maturities, and (iv) following periods when arbitrageurs have lost money, both supply and the term spread are stronger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
Here’s one thing they learned: “Office pairs that lose one or two shared business hours due to [Daylight Savings Time] reduce their total communication volumes by 9.2 percent on average from baseline levels, an effect driven by decreases... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
across the city. They operate within urban centers and landfills to collect waste, sort out the plastic, and help\ aggregate them for larger materials processing facilities like HUL and Dalmia’s plant. This fragile ecosystem is supported by View Details
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
effect on the environment; in fact, it can lead to even more production of emissions through increased production of the by-product. "As you create more value and demand for your by-product, and you increase the quantity of... View Details
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Digital Operations - Course Catalog
Career Focus: Designed for students aspiring to leadership roles at the intersection of technology and operations, the course is relevant for careers in operations, consulting, product management, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. Students will analyze how firms... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Managing Global Supply Chains There are fundamental differences between supply chains and global supply chains, say authors Ananth Raman and Noel Watson, both HBS professors.... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is managing director of Endeavor Philippines, a branch of the global Endeavor organization, which fights poverty by finding and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. “Our mission statement is to create an economic multiplier View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Marketers are trained to match supply to demand. Everything... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
in passing tort reform laws to limit the amount of damages patients can receive. Less attention has been paid to the effect such reforms can have on medical device innovation. Under the chilling effect of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
human judgment, the authors show how to secure a place for ethics in our workplaces, institutions, and daily lives. Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback (Harvard Business Review Press) Becoming an View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
potential profit drivers rather than the first troops to cut in a downturn. Ton's working paper, "The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality", examines how mundane activities such as stocking shelves, setting up displays,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
surprises, say Bazerman and Watkins, are a common form of leadership failure. "Predictable surprises happen when leaders had all the data and insight they needed to recognize the potential, even the inevitability, of major problems, but failed to respond with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on investment and output throughout the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
prided itself on avoiding artificial ingredients, opting instead to use a relatively short supply chain of local growers for many of its ingredients. That strategy just might have been part of its problem, says John A. Quelch, the Charles... View Details
- February 2009 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Early Childhood Education; Investment Return; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
Childress, Stacey M., and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank." Harvard Business School Case 309-090, February 2009. (Revised September 2009.)
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
$649B in stimulus funds to small businesses. We are targeting these funds to underserved communities and critical supply chains. Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021), Lucas Santos (MBA 2022) and Truc Nguyen (MBA 2021), Founders, LivelyHood: Our... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
implies that the side effects associated with periods of rapid growth generate sufficient difficulties that periods of retrenchment are sure to follow. Neoclassical economics teaches us to examine not just the short-run View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Development program. This program is more effective than a typical microfinancing program because it lets the beneficiary cooperatives become part of our supply chain. They provide Manila Water with products... View Details