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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

defaults, and tools that tap our desire to help others-it's possible to design simple, inexpensive programs that encourage good health decisions and long-term behavior change. Publisher's link: View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

what effective green industrial policy might look like as well as pitfalls such as international conflict to help mobilize effective business investments to create and grow markets for low-carbon technologies. Former Racial Equity Fellows... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula

kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

Administration. “The Forbes measure doesn’t make sense to me. Calculating return on investment based on salary five years out means Forbes rewards schools that mainly feed investment banks, private equity,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nejo.12003/abstract Working PapersInvestment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes Abstract We study incentives to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

traded but controlled by a founder, foundation, or family Learn how to analyze companies and industries through the lens of ownership Explore pros/cons of long-term private ownership models Build the skillset of an owner The key questions... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Alumni Books

emulate, support, and manage these important individuals for long-term corporate success. Managing Local Governments: Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value by Emanuele Padovani and David W. Young (DBA 1977) (Routledge)... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy. The strategy map reveals the strategic chain of cause-and-effect relationships that eventually links investment in employee skills to improved financial performance. As the senior executive of a major bank declared: Partnering... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

essential investing guidelines. In this book, you’ll also find eye-opening discussions of: whether bonds are an appropriate investment vehicle for long-term investors; the... View Details

05 Feb 2007
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Business and the Global Poor

supply-chain investments to make it possible for the small farmer to produce good-quality milk, transport it, and sell it to the company. This makes sense for the company because it needs fresh, locally produced milk, and for the small... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2002
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How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets encouraged large-scale View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies and long-term goals of building... View Details

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

collaboration. Second, they didn't organize effectively for collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2008
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Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

example, how well consumers were able to recall a brand name after commercials have been run—but not much more. The effectiveness of marketing investments was rarely directly tied back to sales. This has completely changed with the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2017
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Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

For business executives trying to decide where exactly in the digital realm to invest their advertising dollars, new research indicates that paid search ads on review sites such as Yelp can be a good way to go—at least for small,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 Jan 2020
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Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers,... View Details