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  • 23 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

After a rather halfhearted attempt at a mixed economy under the slogan of "new democracy," early PRC leaders followed the road of high Stalinism. They believed that land-owning farmers and entrepreneurial businessmen were not... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

the capital markets and potential investors understand that the company was a true, modern corporation, even with the state as a majority owner. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308027... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

in the data. Baskin: What was the inflection point for this growth? Weinzierl: The key point is the early 2000s. The second of two shuttle losses, in 2003, meant that the last space shuttle flight was in 2011. This was a serious crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

present day. It covers early entrepreneurial attempts to develop solar energy, the use of passive solar in architecture before World War II, and the subsequent growth of the modern photovoltaic industry. It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

sending appropriate instructions. With modern IT, these tasks are far easier than in the past. Morgantown's system attracted early complaints for its cost and visual intrusion. But Morgantown's PRT stacks up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes in an identical testing paradigm. These results suggest that a cognitively simple mechanism present early in phylogeny and ontogeny leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

organization. Key concepts include: Organizations voluntarily adopting environmental and social policies represent a fundamentally distinct type of modern corporation, characterized by a governance structure that takes into account the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Having a very long record of reinforcement in making good decisions, for anybody, that would make them think they’ll be expert in other areas, whether it’s aviation or welfare or defense. I think an early indicator will be: Can he... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

modern language, that was built around quality, elegance, and social stature or social place. How he came to that set of distinguishing characteristics, the essence of his brand, is a fascinating story that I worked long and hard to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

should approach questions regarding the management of capabilities, lifecycles, and ecosystems. Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin, and Raffaella Sadun... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-442 Chateau Pontet-Canet This case discusses the situation of Chateau Pontet-Canet in early 2000. Alfred Tesseron was the director and son of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

the economic success of fashion designers in the marketplace. (Her research on the market for modern and contemporary fine art in India also bears out this phenomenon.) "One of the most well-accepted axioms of industry emergence is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

What really fuels a boom-and-bust cycle in the modern global economy? It’s not always household debt, says a new paper that parses in-depth data across 115 countries. Instead, rising corporate debt may flash the clearest warning that a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

  Working PapersGlobalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980 Geoffrey G. Jones This working paper examines the globalization of the beauty industry before 1980. This industry, which had emerged in its modern form in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

inherited collection before, with the proceeds largely redirected to her many philanthropic efforts. What she has not done before, and said she plans to do soon, is sell a large portion of the remaining works (many of them lesser-known or View Details
  • 01 May 2006
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Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

of two economists, Galbraith and Milton Friedman, described by Time magazine in 1975 as the modern world's most important economists along with John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith. There were remarkable similarities between them. Both... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48304 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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