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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen Abstract—Assessing the productivity gains from multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
surprisingly, local governments exercise the greatest control over urban land in cities that adopted market reforms earliest. Slavery's Scientific Management: Accounting for Mastery Author:Caitlin C.Rosenthal Publication:In Slavery's Capitalism: A New History View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
led to widespread VAT adoption worldwide, but there is surprisingly little evidence. I find that the paper trail acts as a substitute to a firm's own audit risk. A message announcing increased tax enforcement has a much smaller effect on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)
The WSA final review sessions have become invaluable to everyone! We also have WSA-only career fairs, workshops on negotiating your offer letter, and more. Events & Community The WSA acts as a conduit between faculty, students, and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
to dig in and figure out what their real needs are and their pain points." The Problem With Wizzit WIZZIT entered the mobile banking market in 2004 because the mobile phone penetration rate in South Africa was almost 100 percent,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
entrepreneurs saw the outlines of competition in their respective industries before other players and could thus act quickly to create and control what became the standards of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
trust through warmth and understanding. Most leaders today approach their jobs by emphasizing competence, strength, and credentials. But without first building a foundation of trust, they run the risk View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
the right context, this intense positive energy can act like a gravitational pull that sucks in other workers to invest their time and support, ultimately contributing toward the success of the idea.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
creation of well paying jobs in communities. This is especially notable where such jobs can help workers in industries that need to be phased out... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
simply you and the person on the other side of the table, but it is often much more complex, requiring an act of disciplined imagination rather than a mechanical list. In our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
orbitz), which through the strength of its relationships with airline and hotel partners, will offer a wide range of travel-related services. Business Track, 2004 Extend... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
company removed an episode of The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj in Saudi Arabia after Saudi regulators outlawed material “impinging on public order, religious values, public morals, and privacy,” and ordered... View Details
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Kempf : Winner of the 2016 Finanzforum Vordenken Young Innovator Award. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2016 Young Scholars Finance Consortium Best PhD Student Paper Award for “The View Details
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
applications present opportunities for job creation by broadening the scope and scale of a company's product portfolio. Conversely, internal-facing applications are more likely... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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$4.25/hour internships and secretarial work, anything to get closer to a job in A&R. Music had always been a force in her life. Her great-grandmother Hazel would hammer out gospel and show tunes on the piano in her DC row house, and Dixon... View Details