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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
same postal code through events (in cars, for instance) and to learn about non-work talents (concerts or comedy). When the pandemic (eventually) ends, economic recovery will follow, but it will not solve every current problem. The past year has been characterized by... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
million in property, along with much donated time and effort from employees at Satyam. It was, in a way, a gift back to the country that has allowed him to prosper. To understand just how transformative the work of EMRI is, one must first grasp the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
7 Laws of Enough is about a radical kind of change at the personal, organizational, and societal level: a shift from scarcity to sustainable abundance. LaRoche offers seven principles to guide readers on a transformational journey of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
ten times that of developing nations. 3. Managers in these companies must often innovate on a shoestring budget, since the high cost and scarcity of capital preclude massive spending on R&D. As a result, they must innovate from other... View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
measures currently being pursued in different industries and geographies worldwide. Highlights Heat Impacts to Human Health Flood Prevention Methods Reduce, Transfer, and Bear Show Hide Details Concepts Heat Water Scarcity Wildfires... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
data security, etc. And indeed, we see companies that have stepped into the breach, such as the very large University of Phoenix from an earlier downturn or a tiny firm like Fidelis Security Systems during the current recession. With firms scaling back and with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor São Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Israel Addressing Water Scarcity with Precision Irrigation Netafim, founded in Israel, is the global leader in drip irrigation systems—the most efficient way to deliver water to crops. In spite of this, as a case study about the company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
(Sudbury Press) Poems about fathers and sons, Martha’s Vineyard, politics and society, and youth, age, and relationships. Leaders Made Here: Building a Leadership Culture by Mark Miller (AMP 170, 2006) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Great leaders create great... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and Miller. I show that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
foreign-corruption legislation extant. High-level bribery is part of the fabric of many societies, Wells says, because in a number of developing countries, the scarcity of well-paying jobs, among other reasons, encourages officials to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
year, one of our competitors bred over 180 mares to several of his stallions. We have a customer base that comes to us because we limit our books, creating some scarcity value that appeals to the people willing to pay to get these... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
positive. Our experimental findings are consistent with the existence of domain-contingent inequality aversion; we also find that inequality aversion in equity is more severe than in salary because of the perceived scarcity of equity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting scarcity of informed investors exacerbates market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism in a two-sector business cycle model featuring a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
things that you can experience. Hanna: That's what I've heard. Yeah. Sulyman: The traffic is quintessential because it describes a lot of what happens when you have a society that has scarcity mentality, the way people behave. Those parts... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
heard all too often. Then, taking a deep breath, Tufano adds, "There may be a fairly low probability that we'll help all forty million people with this. But even if we could reach a fraction of the total, just think of the potential." The Neighborhood Grocer In... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
potential for embarrassment, and even religious conviction? Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:First Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace