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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
information. Technological progress had made it considerably easier to hear from NYC residents. Were those gains from innovation being shared equally? More recently, the city began using the data to create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
rebate. While this practice is common in the financial services industry, it is illegal. iTrust hopes that, as a new generation financial services company, it can influence progress in the industry. In a blog post, Varma observes that it... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
around the globe. As he considers 3i's performance through the first quarter of 2006 (3i's fiscal year 2006), he must balance his satisfaction at the firm's results and progress in the recent buoyant market with the question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online
technologies and innovations introduced by direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies, their associated marketing risks and challenges, and how to reshape your marketing practices to compete with emerging brands. Highlights Nicholas Ling, Pattern... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
Organization Science, suggests that women's upward progress depends on the proportion of senior women within the immediate work group and on the extent to which senior-level women enjoy the same power and status as their male... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
to fill little gaps in the literature, and I continue to think that was excellent advice.” Just as researchers in the life sciences often target their work to tackle the most dangerous diseases, so argues Moss, social scientists can make View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
case challenges students to identify the best path forward. How can the progress achieved from 2004 to 2007 be sustained? AREVA T&D hopes to surpass ABB and Siemens in sales and profitability by focusing on superior product offerings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
19th-century textile mogul Francis Cabot Lowell, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, and technology titan Bill Gates. "It was a great way to start the program, because it gave us a background and context for what's happening in business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- Web
A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
have, every brain cell each one of you has, to make the sensible decision about what to do next." 40 The progressive practices and generous benefit package established by Polaroid, one of the leading employers of the area, enhanced its... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
community Complete Table of Contents March 2023 Clearing the Air Faculty and alumni on the opportunity—and necessity—of carbon capture technology Free Spirits With celebrity backers, splashy investments, and a bevy of tasty new products,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
exponential technological progress has led to a dramatic decrease in information constraints. In a range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
A second important driver is the evolution of scientific knowledge and of the technology that goes along with this evolution. Little by little, our uncertainty about the cause of a disease or the optimal therapy for each disease is... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as the View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
of change who recognize various kinds of “equilibria”—systems in need of change— in our current reality and then advance social progress by transforming these systems, ultimately replacing what exists with a new equilibrium. They set out... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
based on those forecasts, the highlights of their observations, and prescriptive thoughts based on our analysis of their ideas. The executives identified 10 powerful forces that had the potential to disrupt the progress flowing from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also detect an impact of the prizes on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Art Nature Business
innovative industry, and can also be a model for 21st-century entrepreneurs investing in new technologies and experimenting with novel ways to use natural resources. The Tudor Company Records are held in Baker Library Special Collections.... View Details