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- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
crucible. Crucibles—by design—are boot camps of a sort, where the heat and pressure make or break the participant." Lim Yung Hui commented, "Business schools can only create a context that is fertile for the emergence of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
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
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
(HBS MBA'87), director of the Agribusiness Program at HBS. A Family Farm Woolf Farming & Processing, established in 1974, is located in the southern part of California's Central Valley, one of the most fertile areas in the country.... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
challenges and rewards of doing business globally have been a particularly fertile area of research for HBS faculty. In just the last month we've seen books from Rawi Abdelal on international finance and from Lou Wells on protecting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
asset to the country." Indeed, the war was a watershed for entrepreneurialism. While it was true that the war temporarily stunted the development of small business, it ultimately created a more fertile environment for the... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
programs to support children and education—but they're often not coordinated, resulting in gaps and redundancies in service. This a fertile area for collaboration. "What you see in some places are business, civic, and education... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Jon and Lawrence saw this chaotic space as fertile ground for entrepreneurship. But the routes these entrepreneurs chose to take were different. "Killing Craigslist" explores the business Jon and Lawrence built to improve the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
animals, as well as fertilizers and new techniques. There's a huge amount of human capital and knowledge invested in farming. Q: What sets energy apart from these other industries? A: The first and most obvious is that it's difficult to... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
today. Both underwent significant upheaval, and this helped me to become a better investor, manager, and entrepreneur. What makes the United States such fertile ground for entrepreneurs? Can the rest of the world catch up? Sahlman: The... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
business owners who come to our programs tell us they are finding today's market to be the most fertile ground for innovation that they've ever seen, and they are impatient to build the skills needed to take advantage of the current... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 109-017 This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
regulated industry, so anyone who's interested in business and government would be a player. It has a social and ethical component to it. So this is fertile ground to study a lot of other phenomena." The School has assembled a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
sanction of the law. To make this argument, we review the history of two earlier breakthrough technologies—the birth control pill and in-vitro fertilization (IVF)—both of which were developed in the United States without federal funds and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The company's first promising View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
they're going after do a better job at picking fertile places and understanding which markets can be successfully attacked. Sometimes the entrepreneur can conceive of a compelling market, but in fact can't get there. So there is an... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
observing in his own research in India. India is fertile ground for domestic, indigenous entrepreneurs, he said, especially compared to China, because the Indian government is learning to loosen some controls. There are many examples of... View Details