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11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

13 Feb 2006
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The Hidden Market for Babies

just simply that it exists, and that society needs to understand how it works. Ultimately, she concludes, government has a regulatory role to play in the baby trade. We asked Spar to discuss her research. Manda Salls: Why did you want to write this book? Debora L.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

examining several options for expansion and growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-053 Curriculum Associates: Turning the Page from Tradition to Innovation Set in fall 2014, the traditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

Harvard Business School Exercise 908-051 A two-party negotiation between an Agent representing a new author and an Editor at a large Publishing Firm. The exercise involves a one-issue, zero-sum negotiation concerning the advance on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
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Good Luck Charm

Far from the Great White Way, the Big Apple also shines brightly, in the neighborhood arts-and-culture scene that thrives throughout the city’s boroughs. Those lively goings-on are often made possible through the good work of Lisa Quiroz (MBA ’90), senior vice... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions The Route of the Exhibition New York and Chicago Rockefeller Center, 1934. Museum of the... View Details

March 2008 (Revised November 2008)
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Sony Digital Entertainment, Japan

By: Anita Elberse

It is late 2007. So-called cell phone ("keitai") novels have turned into an extremely popular form of entertainment-on-the- go in Japan, in particular among young, female readers. In fact, consisting mostly of love stories written by amateurs in short sentences and... View Details

Keywords: Books; Marketing Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Competition; Mobile Technology; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Japan

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19 Jun 2013
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Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

does not do anything to destroy the underlying rigor." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter In his introductory remarks, Marquis cited the ever-changing health-care industry as an example of why institutional analysis is important. "It is a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

30 Aug 2010
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Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

Hyman Minsky, whose analysis was used to show how banks overreached themselves before the 2008 financial crisis. He warns that those companies and industries that failed to adjust to climate change might cease to exist. Jeremy Grantham,... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

what he called the “second great product of industry,” a rewarding working life that cultivated the talents of his employees. “We are becoming a prototype company, a company which is learning how to make the all-day working life a worthwhile thing,” he explained. “The... View Details

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

the larger field of organizational research. We test this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Mar 2002
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Don’t Lose Money With Customers

at the market level, then translate these into strategies at the market segment level. A paper mill's marketing strategy, for instance, might call for selling newsprint to the publishing industry segment and... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

28 Feb 2011
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Rebooting the Human Condition

HBS Life Sciences project. More recently, he joined Venter at various stages of Venter's global sailing voyage, collecting marine organisms for their DNA to expand genomic knowledge. Enriquez is the author of As the Future Catches You; The Untied States of America; and... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
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Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)

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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard... View Details

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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

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23 Aug 2010
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The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. His multidisciplinary research, published in twenty five books and numerous articles, has dealt with the human aspects of management,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

professional and personal involvement as they embark on their post-MBA careers. Aaron Rudenstine (MBA ’09) New York, NY Curbing Corruption I highly commend the editor for publishing “Show Me the Money” and “M.I.A. Boards” in the June... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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