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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
article they describe how to properly design and execute A/B and other controlled tests, ensure their integrity, interpret results, and avoid pitfalls. They argue that if a company sets up the right infrastructure and software, it will be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
network more broadly.” Smitha Ramakrishna (MBA 2018) started a nonprofit in middle school focused on building water infrastructure in India and has worked on water rights advocacy for the Native American community in Arizona. Since the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
differential access to care and socioeconomic disadvantage that has led to a greater burden of chronic diseases. It is an uprising against a racialized, predatory capitalism that through neoliberal and neoconservative agendas has gutted the social, educational, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
principles: putting patient care decisions, tasks, and workflows first; separating complicated, ambiguous diseases and conditions from those that are understood; ensuring that infrastructure and practices such as the mix of staff,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
governmental direct intervention and the role of the state as entrepreneur. Why, for example, was public ownership of infrastructure businesses common to so many European countries by the late 1940s when they had recently come out of such... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
annually. Together, the 2021 Infrastructure Bill’s $265 billion for clean energy and the $386 billion in the IRA, the total investment almost reaches the $700-$800 billion annual budget of the Department of Defense. Of course, the bill’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
his return to service, Andreichuk advised on a number of energy infrastructure rebuilding projects and came away acutely aware of how critical these systems are to society’s well-being. “I was exposed to a whole new world of power... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
would be easier if he had the full support of the CEO, Alain Deronde. But since that isn't forthcoming, he advises Jianguo to work with Alain to develop targets for growth in emerging and traditional markets and a plan for building an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
been blighted by changes in industry.” Finally, Marietta says the lack of resources and infrastructure means that anyone committed to growing local enterprises and organizational capacity beyond the big city must be prepared to tackle... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
organization's external environment. Our review of institutional strategies is focused on emerging market contexts, settings that are characterized by weak capital market and regulatory infrastructures and fast-paced turbulent change.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Developing infrastructure to identify and perform 3-way as well as 2-way exchanges will have a substantial effect on the number of transplants, and will help the most vulnerable patients. Larger than 3-way exchanges have much smaller... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
this context, "platforms" provide infrastructure and rules that facilitate users' transactions. The article provides an introduction to strategic challenges that confront platform providers serving two-sided markets. The first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the subculture of competitive gaming and its economic potential came fully into view—first in South Korea. The country’s well-developed internet infrastructure had birthed a vibrant gaming community, and with support from the government... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
infrastructure here that you don’t find abroad,” explains Domain general partner Brian Dovey (MBA 1967). “Also, you have very little ability for liquidity, namely IPOs and acquisitions, in Europe or Asia.” Anthony Sun says that after... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
sometimes we don't." BEFORE: Infrastructure investments made by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Ghana targeted poor road conditions and a lack of reliable electricity in rural areas. Photo courtesy of MCC In effect from 2007 to... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Entrepreneurship in India Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
the most basic medical services. China is still governed by a staunchly Communist regime, and both its industrial infrastructure and capital markets are dominated by state-owned enterprises. These are not the kinds of conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
date—maybe 2002? Before its first funding round, in any case. I told Reed Hastings that everyone would be streaming video in a year or two, so why set up this huge infrastructure around DVDs? He said, “They’re not ready for streaming yet.... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
dose them. And there’s a lot of infrastructure that needs to change around that, right? The traditional model is test in animals, test in humans. And you need a lot of animals and humans to test it. The idea of a single-patient clinical... View Details