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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Runner-Up SaferTaxi takes a successful concept from the US/Europe to Latin America. The company provides a smartphone application that allows consumers to book, pay rate taxis with added convenience as well as transparency. SaferTaxi aims to bring greater View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, our faculty have developed a body of... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

processes to consumers and beneficiaries to producers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50173 forthcoming Stanford Technology Law Review View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

given its drive-in and drive-through concept,” Brown said. “We’ve shut the dining rooms at Arby’s and moved to a drive-through-only format. We’re running down a little bit, but not too badly, as we can run that model quite efficiently... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

efficiencies and lower costs. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/asheen/consumer%20mergers%206-28-13.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-013 Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012 Eight women... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

  PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

Authors:Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Das Narayandas Publication:Chap. 9 in Legends in Marketing: Philip Kotler, 114-122. Sage, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book235569   Working PapersFairness,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

strategies. The strategy map for a support unit typically includes a financial objective to improve its efficiency in supplying services to the enterprise. This objective is usually measured by the cost of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care

opportunities to enhance efficiency and quality, and serious fiscal challenges ahead if spending growth is not permanently curtailed. This course will introduce participants to the key strategic problems facing healthcare organizations,... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

using administrative data on intrafirm trade allows us to correct for measurement error in survey data and to identify the positive relationship between input-output (IO) linkages and the probability of trade between U.S. parents and... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

task. Intrusions of the film, intrusion qualities, and sequence memory were measured afterwards. Results. We confirmed our hypothesis that UT (versus CT or mere distraction) leads to fewer intrusions, thereby replicating earlier research.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2022
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Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

internet,” as Avinash Umesh Rao calls it) rather than an assessment of its long-term importance. Umesh Rao was somewhat skeptical of the metaverse’s effect on productivity: “Productivity at the end of the day will continue to remain a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

the company has built over time, which is largely embedded in its software code libraries. This base is critical to internal innovation, as it makes product development more efficient and powerful. Additionally, it spawns external... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
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People Analytics at McKinsey

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Olivia Hull
A private equity–backed fast food chain has hired McKinsey’s new People Analytics group to help it improve performance. As the final client workshop approaches, Associate Partner Alex DiLeonardo ponders the best way to present the team’s findings, especially those that... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Consulting Industry; Service Industry
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

investment fails to meet the IMM threshold, Rise will not invest in it. As the Rise team considers making its first investment in EverFi, an educational technology company, McGlashan wonders: will his attempt to insert scientific rigor into impact View Details
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

inequities resulted in team members being unable to bring their whole selves to work, which meant that organizations were operating with sub-optimal contributions. Also, excessive hierarchy that sought to drive efficiencies actually... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

thought of as "a business plan for a key commodity." Although supply chain cost-efficiency measures can increase risk, says Rawlinson, "cost efficiency can also reduce supply chain risk,"... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer