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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the sake of enforcing IP rights... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-082 Mahindra Lifespace Developers' Venture into Affordable Housing No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
overhauling other parts of the public system, in order to afford a perceived cut in tax revenues through a flat tax implementation, is needed. This, however, does not indicate that the opposite is impossible. The fact that many countries... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
construct concrete sea walls? Can low-income communities afford to weatherize buildings when residents struggle with paying utility bills? With transportation as one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions, should budget-limited school... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
players tend to offer. The problem is that lending to small businesses falls through the regulatory cracks, specifically on borrower protections. As a case in point, safeguards such as the Truth in Lending Act afford consumers... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
with a discussion of task shifting’s potential to improve access to affordable tertiary care in resource-constrained settings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49780 Integrated Reporting for a Re-Imagined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
of retail space. Mercadona believes it has a responsibility to select the highest-quality, most affordable products to "prescribe" to customers, an approach that may sound paternalistic but, in fact, is much appreciated by... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210027-PDF-ENG VIZIO, Inc. Krishna G. Palepu and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 110-024 William Wang, CEO of VIZIO, Inc., was proud of his company's success in providing affordable flat screen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
contrast, a woman cleaning floors for Apple today works for a service contractor. She can’t afford to take vacation time because of the wages she’d lose, going to school is financially out of reach, and no bonus is coming her way—plus she... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
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A Retirement Expert Explores Finding Fulfillment After Work | Working Knowledge
Lane Lambert : Why do so many professionals find it hard to retire? Teresa Amabile : Let me first clarify that we're talking about people who are reasonably financially secure. Of course, there are many Americans who cannot afford to... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
governments on the cost savings her program can provide. She says Reset is working to scale up toward a cost structure that is more affordable than prison {which in some states can cost more than $100,000 per year per inmate), with... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
on renewable energy, clean technology, waste management, water and sanitation, food and agribusiness, affordable housing, healthcare, and education and livelihood creation? Is the board ready to incorporate development banking into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
GhoomAishwarya Kachhal, PLDA 2015Ghoom is an Electric Scooter and Battery Rental and Subscription Platform, incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs. Ghoom was founded on a simple idea of improving, bettering and empowering the lives of people with convenient, View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
credit at an affordable rate, they are often forced to scale back operations and lay off employees. This is why it’s important to understand when and if the banks are lending and why, she says. “We need to make the proper measurement of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
where Barton had grown up. Somehow he'd expected, without thinking it through, a warm homecoming. A rookie mistake, he thought. I can't afford many of those. He knew the SMA PR staff would also consider this a pretty basic mistake, and... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
to do)? Or are there more affordable approaches to the problem? What do you think? To read more: Mike McNamee, "Credit Card Revolutionary," Stanford Business, May, 2001, p. 23. Jim Colliins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
through the marketing ranks is much higher in the United States than Europe. The marketers at Wal-Mart, Google, and Lenovo are in the best tradition of Henry Ford and his Model T. They seek to democratize access to their products by bringing good quality to the mass... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
company provided the culture fit she enjoyed while also affording her the opportunity to learn different areas of the business within a smaller company in her corporate strategy role. Several years later, when Cole Haan was put up for... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail