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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
The system won the first annualHBS Association of Nigeria New Venture Competition for the West Africa region last year. Workers at a Nestlé distribution center in Lagos unload maize produced by one of Kola Masha's Babban Gona farms. But View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
have been as a “foreigner”. I will continue wading further and further away from the comfort of familiarity, no matter how challenging it may be. “It’ll be fine I’ve been doing this my whole life” Stan Chang - MS/MBA ‘20 Tell us about... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
productivity, how many people they see. They have lousy information systems to back them up. And then they have a public policy establishment that more or less continuously deprecates their ideas and squeezes down their income. Not a... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t By: Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti Abstract— In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
end of last year we had 440,000 newly insured in the state, leaving fewer than 3 percent still uninsured. That’s a tremendous success, as is the fact that employer-sponsored health insurance offerings continue to grow. “The early... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
NMNH, which has opened a record five new exhibitions in Fri's two-year tenure, realizes that in order to keep its title as the most-visited museum in the world, it must continue to create new attractions. Name: Robert Fri Title: Director... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Knowledge Indeed, when we focus our energy on our strengths, we feel more authentic—and that increases resilience and happiness, improves relationships, and reduces stress, according to research by Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Israel, Knesset members, Israel’s Chief Scientist, prominent business leaders, academics, and journalists weigh in on the formation of the Israeli entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem, the challenges it faces going forward, and what approaches might help it View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
resilience and leap forward from failure, and ultimately to understand the deepest human needs. The author suggests thinking like an entrepreneur as a way to improve one’s business, life, and relationships. L’Apport Économique des... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
products—including soap, toothpaste, and shampoo—to thousands of children and young adults in need in Massachusetts. “During COVID-19, what we are doing is more important than ever,” says Feingold, who retired from a 23-year career at Fidelity in 2019 and View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
guidance for leaders considering these questions and can help them estimate their optimal span of control. The issues explored are ones many senior executives-not just CEOs-should revisit throughout their careers. The best leaders stay mindful of the evolving demands... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
improves the visibility of a paper on the SSRN network. We also find limited evidence of gaming due to demographic factors and career concerns, and strong evidence of gaming driven by social comparisons with various peer groups. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team took nothing for granted. With each new problem they encountered, it recalibrated, iteratively creating View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
the state legislature to pass comprehensive education reform-a major priority of his administration-or, instead, push for a new "right-to-work" law that he believed might be critical to improving his state's competitiveness? He... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries, to name just a few-pose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
communications or architecture. Randall: Right. In fact, I think it's gotten more complicated as people try to sort out how to improve the capability, speed, and capacity of the existing network. Meakem: Exactly. In our application,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
medical records. The idea was to improve HIV/AIDS treatment for as many people as possible by identifying fixes that could scale-up and serve as a blueprint for change. Kim’s MBA proved useful and not only in the office: His wife and... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
3 leverages proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to Boston government. Users who received photographic evidence that their service requests had been addressed were more likely to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne