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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
true in the work I do in Sri Lanka, is that the technical solution is easy,” he reflects. “It’s navigating the human side that’s much harder—that’s what I found in my LEAD cases at HBS. There’s never an A, B, C sequence that you can put... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
in developing countries where laying fiber just doesn’t make sense, although there are real questions about cost and sustainability. Apart from the hard-core mobile gamers, though, what will the average consumer do with all this speed? Perhaps not much. The View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
Backlash Against Investment Arbitration, edited by Michael Waibel, Asha Kaushal, Kyo-Hwa Chung, and Claire Balchin. London: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, forthcoming Abstract There are at least three reasons for the current backlash among developing countries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
the Case for Pluralistic Risk Management The failure to rescue survivors from the sunk Russian submarine Kursk is explored by Anette Mikes and Amram Migdalpaper. Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their View Details
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
These variables represent external and internal enablers of successful scaling: Activating Growth Strategic Opportunity and Market : What does it take to “cross the chasm” to the early majority? How large is the serviceable addressable... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
with many American investors and board members (as I explain in this ABC x Nightline documentary), faces wild scrutiny over its international subsidiary, TikTok. It is a strange world when its two leading View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
brand strategies. They looked to emerging international markets to fuel growth and broaden their portfolios of alternate beverages like tea, juice, sports drinks, energy drinks, and bottled water. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had vied for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, and E.M. Gerber... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
as pure profit maximizers, assuming that market forces alone will ensure that farmers benefit. Even when e-intermediation benefits farmers, it is insufficient to mitigate the negative effects of supply fragmentation, suggesting that for farmers, market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped Educate Girls leverage available census,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jeff Nelson
cooperative. Tthe other involved implementing feed-mix trials to help chicken farmers, with the assistance of micro-financing, apply the most cost-effective approaches to raising marketable poultry. Looking at basic changes As a continuation of his interests, Jeff will... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
networks as we know them, with their devices, will cease to exist within the next decade. These bit based clod machines will yield to a kind of biologic environment, where the systems are secondary to the need constantly adapting and rebuilding I am positive that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963)—experiential learning has been incorporated into 11 extended field courses in the Elective Curriculum this year, attracting about two-thirds of the Class of 2016. Six of these courses involve domestic or View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
emerging countries is very encouraging.” The former executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Wilson is the founder of the consulting firm GV Partners, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her impressive list of clients includes global institutions such as the World... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
powerful instruments of philanthropy, like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are putting hundreds of millions of dollars towards the eradication of a disease. Huge as that is, it's not an effort that can be permanent. Historically,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
powerful emerging nations; security threats from radical movements, failed states, asymmetric warfare, and crime; and global health issues, including pandemics. Finally, our participants cited the inability of existing global institutions... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
to solve the organization structure problem. The solution will be derived through analysis of the first of our four Cs: customer definition. Using an "outside-in" approach, we will start by designing units that work most closely... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and policymakers to deregulate the marketplace, says Moss. Although a deregulatory agenda was embraced by congressional Democrats and Republicans alike, President Reagan set the philosophical tone in his 1981 inaugural address when he famously observed: “Government is... View Details