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15 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend & James Vickery

02 Nov 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel

2011
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Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China

By: Christopher Marquis, Jianjun Zhang and Yanhua Zhou

We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present a number of resulting implications for doing business there. We identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Alignment; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; China

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

In a high-value health care system, medical condition-specific IPUs need to expand geographically, rather than continuing to compete only locally or regionally. Value will increase quickly when superior providers serve more patients... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

nearest global research center to help him make connections and identify potential companies to feature in cases. Because research staff live and work in their respective regions, they have extensive contacts with local companies and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

29 Aug 2023

HBS Information Session in Mexico City

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

intimidate the local population, some captains took to sinking their ships as soon as they landed. Now there was no choice but to stay and fight. Scuttling the ships made the threat—"We will fight to the death!"—credible to the... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

selling them to consumers. Take Wal-Mart, for instance. Is it a two-sided platform? Not in its "classic version." If it functions like your average village merchant who wakes up early to acquire produce from suppliers and then resells it to consumers at its... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

30 Aug 2023

HBS Information Session in Monterrey

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details

11 Dec 2023

HBS Information Session in London

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details

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Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Three Levels of CSV Reconceiving Products & Markets Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain Improving the Local & Regional Business Environment Redefining Productivity ... Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain Every company has a... View Details

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Events - Business History

Seminars, & Workshops Jun 11 11 Jun 2025 Virtual Seminar Paloma Fernández Pérez (University of Barcelona), "Global Business and Local Welfare: the Transfer of Radium from Multinationals to Hospitals for the Poor in Barcelona in the 1920s"... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

trucks with mechanical arms. But since no major US city has yet made the transition to containers, there is no locally available truck that can safely and effectively do the job. (DSNY is working with the trucking industry to develop one... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Aldrich Hall | About

support research at the HBS “Fatigue Laboratory,” which conducted research that tested the productivity of industrial workers in locales ranging from the basement of Morgan Hall to Colorado’s Boulder Dam. In December 1926, Aldrich’s eight... View Details

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-012.pdf Doing What the Parents Want? The Effect of the Local Information Environment on the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations Authors:Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2023
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

teamed up with partner organization ReFood, and Ghose liked the model: repurposing surplus food from restaurants to feed the local community, with hyperlocalized food drives run by local volunteers. He... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

working with local businesses. In what ways is the MBA Program experimenting with content and format? We’re eager to create more space for innovative educational content. SIPs, the Short Intensive Programs we launched in 2017 as... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie