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- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
"food deserts"-areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food. In pursuit of these initiatives, the company's rapid entry into a heterogeneous set of new markets necessitated a reexamination of its store format,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Financial Economics (forthcoming). Abstract This study identifies the effect of a key cultural dimension—egalitarianism—on a set of international investment outcomes. Egalitarianism expresses a society's cultural orientation with respect to intolerance for abuses of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and the free View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Company magazine as one of the top socially entrepreneurial organizations in America, Year Up was started with private funding and is supported by corporate partnerships. Its business model is based in part on market demand for... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
treat non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Dapansutrile aims to selectively target the immune system’s intense inflammatory response to the SARS-CoV-2 viral infection that can lead to a “cytokine storm.” As such, it is well positioned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
that showed a wide disparity in learning gains among CMOs in 23 states found that those organizations backed by Hall's fund had significantly higher learning gains than other CMOs or independent charter schools. "We are trying to build the capital View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
percent of its operating revenue came from a dwindling endowment, and the school had been through four executive directors in two years. Relations with the neighboring town of Harlan, the county seat, were at an all-time low: The nonprofit had View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
marketing is huge now, but I learned very little about that when I was a student. Can HBS provide more opportunities for alumni to stay in permanent beta and continuously grow as leaders in today's dynamic and fast-changing world? Anubhav... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
market like a local. In this way, my parents exposed me to so many aspects of their lives while letting me shape my own perspective and identity. My mom is always telling me that because of what we have, “every day is extra.” She... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
commercialization to market leadership. He is a former US Army Ranger. In addition to work with MS/MBAs, Tom has also taught Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Harvard College Thomas R. Eisenmann Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
against extremism. Fifty percent of the population is under 25, and there are not nearly enough new jobs being created to provide opportunity. An uneducated, unemployed young person is someone without hope and a perfect potential target... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
media, notably Twitter, to generate grassroots support around his call to make America great again. Effective communications and wise targeting of resources against key voter segments, notably in swing states, were equally important in... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
involved launching two separate recruitment campaigns, each targeting half of 48 randomly selected rural districts across the country and distributing marketing material in the nation's health centers. In 24... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
unused in villages ravaged by disease, and boxes of mosquito nets that could slow the spread of malaria go unopened. The problem is that, sometimes, not enough attention is paid to what motivates the target population to use medicines or... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
revenue option entailed keeping the existing features unchanged and rolling out a bundle of eight new services for a monthly fee of $15. These services would be targeted at network members who had forged many connections, logged in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne