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  • 05 Oct 2020
  • News

How Businesses Can Recruit and Develop More Young People of Color

  • 10 Apr 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2025 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 9 student essays that... View Details
  • March–April 2017
  • Article

Sink or Swim: The Role of Workplace Context in Shaping Career Advancement and Human-Capital Development

By: Shinjinee Chattopadhyay and Prithwiraj Choudhury
We develop and test predictions on how early-career challenges arising from the workplace context affect short- and long-term career advancement of individuals. Typically an organization’s decision to deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous... View Details
Keywords: Workplace Context; Career Advancement; Context; Situation or Environment; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Performance
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  • December 2015 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Christine Snively
In January 2015, Jibo Inc. had completed a raise of $25.3 million in Series A financing after a successful 2014 crowdfunding campaign for preorders of Jibo, the first social robot for the home. Over 4,800 Jibo units were preordered, generating $2.6 million in sales. On... View Details
Keywords: Business Development; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Business Startups; Technology Industry
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  • Research Summary

Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

  • 1989
  • Book

Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides a biography of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, who headed Iran's central bank and Plan Organization during the 1940s and 1950s. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the problems of modernization and economic planning in Iran. Ebtehaj was at the center of... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Economics; Central Banking; Policy; Political History; Resignation and Termination; Biography; Books; Surveys; Growth and Development Strategy; Planning; Iran
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Nailing Prediction: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Tools in Predictive Model Development

By: Daniel Yue, Paul Hamilton and Iavor Bojinov
Predictive model development is understudied despite its centrality in modern artificial intelligence and machine learning business applications. Although prior discussions highlight advances in methods (along the dimensions of data, computing power, and algorithms)... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science
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    Nailing Prediction: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Tools in Predictive Model Development

    Predictive model development is understudied despite its importance to modern businesses. Although prior discussions highlight advances in methods (along the dimensions of data, computing power, and algorithms) as the primary driver of model quality, the value of... View Details
    • 29 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor

    Keywords: by Faaiza Rashid & Amy C. Edmondson
    • December 2000 (Revised August 2001)
    • Teaching Note

    Airbus A3XX: Developing the World's Largest Commercial Jet (A) and (B) TN

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
    Teaching Note for (9-201-028) and (9-201-126). View Details
    Keywords: Aerospace Industry
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    • 2000
    • Chapter

    Normal Acts of Irrational Trust: Motivated Attributions and the Trust Development Process

    By: Mark J. Weber, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan
    Keywords: Trust; Motivation and Incentives; Attitudes
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    • 1992
    • Working Paper

    Developing an Organization Capable of Strategy Implementation and Reformulation: A Preliminary Test

    By: M. Beer, R. A. Eisenstat and R. Biggadike
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    • 27 Oct 2020
    • News

    Donald Trump’s billion-dollar golf course development play: little to show, so far

    • 13 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

    On September 12, 1980, the military launched a coup on the government in Turkey. For many executives, such instability is the worst nightmare of doing business in a developing country. But for Turkish entrepreneur Hamdi Akin, usually on... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 May 2000
    • Conference Presentation

    Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in New Product Development

    By: Alan MacCormack and Roberto Verganti
    Keywords: Product Development; Risk Management
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    • 1969
    • Book

    Work-Related Day Care: An Evaluation of the KLH Child Development Center Part I

    By: David Hawkins, John Jordan and Joseph Curran
    Keywords: Growth and Development; Early Childhood Education
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    • January 2019
    • Supplement

    JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (C)

    By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
    Video Supplement to HBS Case Nos. 918-406 and 918-410.
    Beginning in 2014, JPMorgan Chase launched “Invested in Detroit,” a $100 million philanthropic investment in the city over five years. The bank worked with local economic development organizations,... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropic Investment; Banking; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Workforce Development; Financial Institutions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Expansion; Banking Industry; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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    • 21 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

    Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
    • September 2014
    • Module Note

    The Development of the Markets for Natural, Organic, and Health Foods in the U.S.

    By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon
    Discourses on the links between eating, health, and social standing in America have deep roots. As mechanisms of food production, distribution and storage were developed in the nineteenth century, Americans began receiving information about what to and not-to eat, from... View Details
    Keywords: Food Marketing; Food; Markets; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • Article

    Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence-Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting

    By: Raymond H. Mak, Michael G. Endres, Jin Hyun Paik, Rinat A. Sergeev, Hugo Aerts, Christopher L. Williams, Karim R. Lakhani and Eva C. Guinan
    Importance: Radiation therapy (RT) is a critical cancer treatment, but the existing radiation oncologist work force does not meet growing global demand. One key physician task in RT planning involves tumor segmentation for targeting, which requires substantial... View Details
    Keywords: Crowdsourcing; AI Algorithms; Health Care and Treatment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; AI and Machine Learning
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