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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Initiative Grant for “Teachers at Work: Preventing Social Exclusion of Immigrants” with Michela Carlana, Matti Sarvimaki, and Mikko Silliman. Marlous van Waijenburg : 2019: Recipient of a MITRE Faculty Research Award for “New Frontiers in... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. The primary explanation for the profitability of bundling relies on homogenization of consumer valuations for the bundle, allowing the firm to extract more surplus. We find bundling can be... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
oxygen that touched a product, thus preventing discoloration. “Cellophane played a big part in how the color of food started to be controlled and standardized,” she says. The rise of self-service grocery stores Through the turn of the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
not prevent Enron-style debacles, he continued. "The big headline about Enron is that before fraud, there was terminal incompetence. As a matter of fact, if you look at a lot of the fraud cases, before fraud there was terminal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. “I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies,” says Keen. Earlier, he’d experienced the fallout of an LBO at Maine shipbuilder... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
dropped their $120 subscription it cost everyone in the chain, from the distributor to every content channel. Eventually the industry had to pay attention. There are currently two primary approaches to winning back cord-cutters and View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
microfinance applied to the problems of education. Specifically, we came to believe that an innovative microfinance-based solution could have a meaningful impact on the reduction of the high dropout rates in primary schools that cause... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
primaries with a single, nonpartisan primary that uses the same ballot for all voters. The top five finishers then advance to the general election. The second step involves implementing ranked-choice voting... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services
is made to keep the signal-to-noise ratio as high as possible. Certain subscriptions (e.g. rcs_grid for using the compute grid and/or project spaces) are required to keep one's account. Storage Persons will only be allowed access to project spaces once the access has... View Details
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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
We wish to bring to your attention a number of items that will help you work efficiently and prevent you from having future problems: Remember that home folders are not sharable, and typically contain files that pertain to your work only.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
stall a company’s scaling efforts. To prevent this from happening, companies must make core processes like recruiting, interviewing, and development a real priority in daily practice. As Aristotle emphasized a long time ago, “Excellence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the tradeoff to spend more time earlier... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
of the workshops is to develop training programs in the prevention of HIV/AIDS that can be scaled to the needs of the organization and deliver key curricular materials and models over the Internet. The challenge is to overcome the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
volume. The distinguishing operational characteristic of by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
regard, Aiken feels that women often face a different challenge than men because they are too often "put into staff positions rather than line management jobs in order to 'protect their success,'" which, she adds, "…actually hinders the movement of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
primary or generative appropriability. By contrast, years later, Apple broke new ground in the creation of the iPod, a simple portable device that allowed users to play music through a digital library. But it didn't stop there. Realizing... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
“Mental health conditions like depression and anxiety are among the most common complications for women, affecting one in five during pregnancy and postpartum,” says Richter. “And yet, the barriers to care, like high cost, long waitlists, and stigma, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies, Consumers, Corporations, and... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the primary weapons of choice. It worked so well that spending by US... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel