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  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

non IT-intensive industries after 1995, reversing the previous trend. The combination of increased turbulence and concentration, especially among IT-intensive industries, is consistent with recent theories of hypercompetition as well as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

operations? 2) What might be the intellectual added value of such a perspective? 3) What are the basic elements of behavioral operations research? Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-096.pdf Film Rentals and Procrastination: A Study of Intertemporal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

to discourage dishonesty: signing at the beginning rather than at the end of a self-report, thereby reversing the order of the current practice. Using lab and field experiments, we find that signing before rather than after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
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December 2020 Nine Ways to Have a Better 2021 HBS faculty and alumni offer nine strategies to put you over the top, whatever the year ahead may hold. Out of the Valley A special Skydeck miniseries explores how frontier markets are defining the future of View Details
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

integration have barely occurred, and globalization's future is fragile. Cross-border mergers are running up against protectionism, and local economic stagnation may lead to a reversal of globalization that may persist for decades. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in 1958, and the agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

reverse every four years, coinciding with regulatory reviews. A possible explanation is that firms are behaving strategically. We then use stock market data to complement our study. We construct a measure of cumulative abnormal returns... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care General Management, Technology & Operations Management Regina Herzlinger , Ben Creo Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Business Plans for Innovating in... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change

representatives in support of the successful campaign for marriage equality in New York State. Our social media campaigns have reached 14 million people, and we've won awards for the innovative advocacy technology we've created and built.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate
  • 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

foods, the population grew—and grew older. At 84, Japan’s life expectancy is now the longest in the world. About 36 million people, or 28 percent of the population, are over the age of 65 (compared to 15 percent in the United States). And now, sadly, that whole... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and organizational challenges ahead. He created a new narrative for the company in the era of Big Data, putting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

case considers the challenges of entering the fiercely competitive retirement market, introduces students to the large literature on the behavioral biases of individual investors, and asks students to evaluate an innovative new financial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

reversion to very early hiring or the use of a centralized matching system such as that used for medical residencies. We suggest, however, potential avenues by which the clerkship market could stabilize at something like its present... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209082 Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple Harvard Business School Note 609-066 Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

adopting business practices. Helping students, alumni, outside business leaders, and nonprofit managers develop skills and innovations they can apply to the social sector is one of the main goals of the Initiative on Social Enterprise, an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Abstract The extant literature on self-control is premised on the notion of myopia (i.e., short-sightedness or present-biased preferences) and assumes that choosing vices generates regret. An alternative perspective challenges this approach and suggests that consumers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace