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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
volumes of goods and people long distances—humanity’s best bet might lie with overweight algae. And staving off the climate apocalypse could be just the beginning. That’s the premise underlying a decadelong joint effort to develop algae... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
the LEFA (Lifelong E-mail Forwarding Address) system was set up and, shortly thereafter, the “E-Mail Your Class or Section” function on the HBS Alumni Web page. The very large volume of e-mails (more than 1,000 a month) and telephone... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
suppliers and customers to reduce demands on capacity throughout the supply chain, introducing menu-based pricing in which customers pay for the features and services they use, while other customers receive discounts because they have large order View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
encompass a wide array of institutions and agencies, our overview concentrates on those that the conference papers appearing in this volume focus on. We conclude that collectively, the papers contribute to significant progress, point out... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
compensation on performance across salespeople; unconditional compensation is more effective for salespeople with high base performance, whereas conditional compensation is equally effective across all types of salespeople. Lastly, we find seasonality to influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
characterized mid-twentieth-century America was essential to supermarket success. However, the supermarket sweet spot in the middle of the income distribution has been shrinking for decades. As income inequality accelerates, the ability of supermarkets to remain... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between firms increases the View Details
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D Photo: Ansel Adams with Polaroid camera, ca. 1972. “The Polaroid Newsletter for Photograph Education,” Volume IV, No. 2, Spring 1987. Polaroid Corporation Corporate Archives Records, Box IX.38, Folder 8. It... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
creative than their younger peers. Again, this turns out not to be the case: “While it's true that young minds may produce a higher volume of ideas, business guru Frans Johansson argues in his book The Medici Effect that creativity comes... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
& Company, based in San Francisco. Randy W. Goldman (MBA '76), vice president for electronic brokerage product development at Schwab, explains that her company's Internet site carries more than half the firm's trading volume and... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
States Interests and Revolution in Latin America, published in 1970, Lodge argued that "development equals change of a systemic nature because it involves reallocation of power." This volume inspired the U.S. Congress to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
eight plants in a row, a new variety begins and each week a new ripe cluster of tomatoes is harvested. Research teams collect data throughout this process via sensors and measurements, such as the volume of tomatoes grown per plant per... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
beaches to the processors that turn those bottles into recycled plastic pellets and flakes. It then matches those supply chains to major manufacturers looking for large volumes of recycled plastic. “We’re dot connectors,” Goodwin says.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business School professor Arthur A.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
for larger firms (which have access to bond markets), we confirm that this substitution has strong predictive power for lending volume by small and unrated firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-107.pdf Unfair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
use. It may cut down on the volume of requests that local agencies need to field on a day-to-day basis. Participants also probed questions of concern: Political window dressing: Will Data.gov release controversial datasets or will it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
first volume, Univer-Cities: Strategic Implications for Asia. Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore, edited by Teo and published in 2013. Volume II presents papers read at the inaugural Univer-Cities Conference 2013 held under... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
1 illustrates the importance of proactive testing in preventing the spread of the virus. Although other countries have increased their sheer volume of testing, most are limited to reactive testing—that is, testing only people with... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
to top dairy brands in China while selling a small volume of dairy products under its own premium brand Wondermilk. Besides running his own dairy farms, Shao had been providing free training in dairy farm management to industry peers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne