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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
startup, which had raised over $130 million in venture capital, had seen revenue grow 100% and gross margin double. Would moving abroad expand thredUP's total addressable market and help position the company for an IPO? Or would it prove... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
financial institutions deemed too big to fail already have a huge marketplace advantage - hundreds of billions of federal bailout funds unavailable to smaller firms in financial trouble, says Moss. "That gives big, complex firms a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
poverty," she says, "I realize how incredibly rich I am." She and her husband also support the care of their son Bobby's siblings in Nepal, and Shuster-Haynes is helping raise funds to build a pediatric wing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
hospital, considers which organizational structure will help them adjust to the changing health sector environment. The move from global budget to activity-based funding has led his and many other public hospitals to suffer losses in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program, this meant no more funding for big, complex, billion-plus... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., government funded but with substantial independence like UK academies and U.S. charters) have significantly higher management scores than regular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
which were turning to industrial planning, Keynesian deficits, and high inflation to stimulate their economies, Hong Kong’s civil servants rejected the idea that governments should play a role in industrial planning, the idea of spending more than the government View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
advantage — hundreds of billions of federal bailout funds unavailable to smaller firms in financial trouble, says Moss. “That gives big, complex firms a dramatic advantage that is inappropriate,” he explains. Since last fall, there’s also... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
the most rational question in the world to ask is, is business playing a positive role here? If not, why not? And how can it? April White: Lisa, you've raised a lot of really important issues that business can be engaged in, but we're... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
the country. When I first went to Yamhill, I just assumed that people there were a little bit more easygoing. I assumed that they had such a great life because they had many, many acres of land which, you know, when you’re born and raised... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
to friends and family to help them raise cash, and if they were really lucky, they would attract the interest of wealthy families such as the Rockefellers and the Whitneys. A mere handful of VCs were doing deals on the East and West... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
candidate and now president-elect, who is not only willing but eager to raise the public temperature so significantly, so often, and on such a widespread basis. When I reflect on strong leaders, I usually see an important connection... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Chinese citizens living in cities than in the countryside. China's rapid urbanization, and the accompanying conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, raised a number of economic, social, and political concerns. Could China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
social concerns into the value proposition of businesses—be they corporate businesses or social enterprises—is notable in its own right as a challenge to conventional conceptions of what the very practice of business is about. It is also notable, from an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
planning, HIV/AIDS, and malaria prevention must determine what to do about their slow-to-take-off clean water initiative. PSI's point-of-use products offered effective protection against water-borne diseases, especially diarrhea, yet the organization found it hard to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2022 New Urban Order Looking into the not-too-distant future of tomorrow’s sustainable cities Breaking News With a novel funding and ownership model, the National Trust for Local News offers a path to keep local newspapers in local... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Raising the Level of Abstraction This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to think at a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel