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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced. In essence, BPS is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
the food that supermarkets and manufacturers and farmers can’t sell, recover it, and give it to people who could use a donation or reduced price meal. We are also trying to reverse decades of misguided thinking about what constitutes... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather more information, or View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
Curve Diverse boards (and leadership teams at large) are not just more reflective of the populations they serve—they’re better positioned to spot emerging trends and navigate complex challenges. As Boris Groysberg and J. Yo-Jud Cheng View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
reverse auction. In the case, GSK is hit with a potentially devastating suit and must hire a firm in time to respond. The recently hired managing attorney, Sophia Keating, grapples with GSK's approach. The GSK veterans assure her that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
collaboration, noting that there is a "proven demand for women in business." A year later, Bulletin readers learned that HBS would "provide most of the faculty and instructional material and will be responsible for the [Radcliffe]... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
advertising a $2.46 charbroiled special. Most of the class and even some of the faculty sported long hair, and noting the large percentage of single men in the class, the paper's lead article announced that we would provide "a rich vein... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
video we really want to see. But assuming a captive audience on these video sites may not make online marketers more effective at reaching consumers. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Thales S. Teixeira notes that it's just as... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
(e.g., documentaries) are held significantly longer than want DVDs (e.g., action films) within-customer. Similarly, we also predict and find that people are more likely to rent DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse order when... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Note on Generic Drugs in the European Union Harvard Business School Note 309-019 Rules governing the introduction of generic drugs in U.S. and EU have some similarities but significant differences because of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
sociology, were married. While at RCA, Djelic had heard from colleagues about Harvard's first-rate schools in both business and public administration and decided to enroll in the joint MBA/MPA Program. “My time at HBS was a wonderful learning experience,” Djelic says,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
the experience Thomas was having. They found common ground. "He then asked me, 'What are you trying to accomplish in the classroom?' I thought, 'Another trick question.' But the important note here is the way in which he created a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
private equity investments suggest that the results are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. April... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
U.S. manufacturing industries from the Economic Census. We then relate coagglomeration levels to the degree to which industry pairs share goods, labor, or ideas. To reduce reverse causality, where co-location drives input-output linkages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Horizon Wind Energy. “It was a very small business, but we got lucky with land positions and were able to build it to pretty good scale,” notes Skelly, who served as the company’s chief development officer. “When it got too big for the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Western firms sought access to resources, and they faced little political risk due to Western imperialism. The main risks were logistical due to infrastructure and technological inadequacies. During the Great Reversal between 1929 and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
undermine ad-supported broadcasting stations, promulgated a series of regulations that retarded the growth of pay TV. As a result, early efforts to develop pay TV were unsuccessful. 5 The FCC's opposition to pay TV was consistent with a broad View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Harvard President Drew Faust herself noted at the start of the conference, women are still underrepresented at the top levels of government and business, both in the United States and abroad. Only 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women;... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
political scientist Karl Deutsch and associates, relying on research conducted in the early 1950s, emphasized that the internationalization of transactions had declined significantly since the beginning of the 20th century, and averred that this trend was unlikely to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace