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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen's average loan (no collateral required) is $200. Its repayment rate is about 98 percent. Some 7 million poor people,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
idea: "e-culture." Why? A: In Evolve, I write about the changes that businesses, other organizations, and even individuals are going to go through as a new way of working, leading, and living. I call it e-culture because I'm View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the hub economy will continue to spread across more industries, concentrating more power in the hands of a few. As an example, they take an in-depth look at the auto industry and how Apple and Alphabet/Google are poised to become the main... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
how you incentivize, can increase or deplete the amount of altruistic capital." Ashraf's interest in international field research sprouted from the realization that the people tasked with solving global problems aren't always in touch... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
use the Internet to provide more detailed information of interest to specific stakeholders. Through Web 2.0 tools and technologies, a company can engage with all stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue that includes listening as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
demonstrated their capacity to build a HCHP firm and to study them more formally. My own interest in HCHP companies began at Corning, Inc. I started my career there, after earning my Ph.D. in organizational Psychology, as an internal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
2017 New York: Scribner Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times By: Koehn, Nancy F. Abstract—An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
the effects of geographic distance and a "hot" IPO market on the formation of networks in the venture capital industry. The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
which English is spreading is unprecedented and staggering” A: Lingua francas have existed for centuries. English has become the global business language mostly in the last 30 years. Linguists believe it's the fastest View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
party to another, spreading it out over large groups, and (in some cases) simply reducing it outright. These policies, in turn, have profoundly shaped the environment in which business operates. Public risk management itself has obviously... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
spread. Mills must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of his fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes descriptions of fixed-floating swaps, important interest rates and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate forecasts positively stock return volatility and exchange rate volatility. This paper presents evidence that movements in both the short-term nominal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
makers of things are enthusiastic about sharing them, and this is a way for them to interact with more people. There is a pride in transparency, and it also happens to work as a way to get loyal, adoring customers to spread the word.... View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
funding, which it will use to open four more schools in the fall of 2015—in Brooklyn and Palo Alto, along with two more in San Francisco. Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer John Kim (HBS MBA '93) became interested in AltSchool after... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
"Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to publish a lot of books; that you need a production system with more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand." The case also highlights the spread of... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
the twenty-first century as the epoch-making era of playing fields becoming more level and opening markets, reducing government control, and spreading lifestyles and products of different cultures from all over the world. In this context,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment, demonstrates that such a strategy usually beats the more cautious approach of spreading around lower-amount investments in a larger number of projects, a recipe for... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
volume have highlighted, much is still not yet known about the venture capital industry. The extent to which the U.S. venture model will spread overseas and the degree to which the American model will — or can — be successfully adapted... View Details