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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Netta Barak-Corren, Elizabeth Linos, Elspeth Kirkman, and Sean Robinson Abstract—Roughly 20% of adults in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges offer fully... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
are not unequivocally a club that one should strive to join," writes Werker in his April 2013 working paper, Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences, published by the International Growth Centre at the London School of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
example of how Old World wines can seem inaccessible to people. How can Old World wines become accessible to inexperienced consumers? A: Over the past decade, wineries around the world have gone to great lengths to enhance their consumer View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
functions that are thrust to the center of concern during such crisis events. Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action Authors:Leonard, Herman B., and Mark H. Moore Publication:Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
MaterialsLeaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1 Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson HoutHarvard Business School Case 311-032 Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
Business School Case 515-001 Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product-made entirely from muscle grown in his lab-to give it the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
doing something—usually donating money—to set it in motion. “My results suggest the more you treat the uninsured and the more you provide medical education the less likely you will be subject to these enforcement actions” But what if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
urban school system. In this article, the authors, who are members of Harvard University's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), explain why. One reason, they say, is that educators, researchers, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
When Harvard Business School dean Kim B. Clark returned from a road tour a couple of years ago, he had some important issues he wanted to discuss with Professor Myra M. Hart. Evidence—granted, most of it anecdotal—was mounting to show... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAcademia Barilla Harvard Business School Case 507-001 Barilla, the world's largest pasta company, has introduced a new high-quality, high-priced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
In 26 seasons under Ferguson, United won 38 domestic and international trophies-giving him nearly twice as many as any other English club manager-and became one of the valuable franchises in sports. In 2012, during Ferguson's final season before retiring, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
secular trend for India's manufacturing urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts with better education and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
on an X-ray," says Quelch, who holds a joint appointment as Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "Mental health conditions aren't so readily identifiable." It's clear from Quelch and... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was appalled. I was in the View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a public good among platforms and therefore the equilibrium level is lower than the one that would maximize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and insurance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
elements do not translate well from manufacturing and what challenges exist in a unique setting, such as this. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-001.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNew Schools for New Orleans 2008... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace