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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on lower costs, failing to consider the broader strategic role of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models. Their success is View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
Chandra said.4 (Both Jagadeesh and Chandra subsequently left Exodus to found separate companies; some time later Exodus filed for bankruptcy.) Chandra, in turn, mentored fledgling entrepreneur Rajesh Reddy, who was in India in 1998-1999... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
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poverty and to support microentrepreneurs in their endeavors? That's the bigger picture." Under-savers Anonymous In 2008, Pomeranz's research team began interviews with microentrepreneurs in Chile that led to a 2012 working paper,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
expertise in personalization developed during his time as a serial entrepreneur and a founding team member of Google+; he sets about recruiting engineers, educators, VC investors, and families to set in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
co-researchers wanted to find out whether sustainable investment capital is flowing to companies that are in the best position to solve the urgent and complex problems created by climate change. In their new working paper, The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from... View Details
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
co-wrote with Lynn Pyun of MIT and B.Y. Cheon of Hanshin University and the Korea Labor Institute. Focusing on South Korea, the team interviewed scores of multinational and local executives to find out whether a firm could raise its... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf Varied Experience, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
week, two weeks, or more? If you don’t know, find out now and work to shorten ramp-up time and increase productivity in your sales team after the crisis. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
GeoMatch software application. The team built algorithms that predicted places where refugees were most likely to find work, which they considered one of the best indicators of a family’s success in assimilating. Their second goal: To... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
personality theory into a multi-level model of information acquisition and idea generation. We posit that innovator and peer personality are critical factors conditioning who will generate high-quality ideas, and that our proposed mechanisms have implications at both... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
groups.” As EAM put it, “Success will require a variety of strategies deployed at the same time.” Black Man was among those suggesting one element of such an effort. “When I was in college, it was always difficult to find a group to work with even when I View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
no impact on overall financial wellbeing or mental health. In fact, those who received debt relief were less likely to repay their other outstanding medical bills. Researchers found no impact on credit use and access or financial distress... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
School Case 510-104 Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
entrepreneurial hub); pick a stage ("jungle," "dirt road," or "highway"); and pick a winner (do due diligence on the founding team, the market, and the business model). Once you’ve made those choices, you’ll need to sell yourself, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
teaching leadership development programs (and even members of a leadership team inside a business), to feel confident in their ability to teach any of the class sessions, modules, or the entire course," Sucher explains. We asked... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
better understand the needs of Mexico's less-affluent customers, CEMEX assembled a team of employees who agreed to spend ten hours each day for an entire year in an extremely poor neighborhood in Guadalajara. Consumers in this... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Language Authors:Jerry Green and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Abstract A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well-defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
Republican presidential candidates, but the results could help many marketing teams decide how to allocate scarce resources between mass advertising and personal selling efforts, or, as the researchers call it, between the air war and the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence. Medical researchers have found significant evidence that male... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne