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09 Mar 2015
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

drivers and alleged evasion of local taxes. The Uber case brings up thorny questions around when pushing legal or policy boundaries becomes a public hazard rather than public benefit. Permission Or Forgiveness "We address this in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

other countries outside China such as Germany and Sweden before local contagion even started, allowing precious time to acquire personal protective equipment before it became scarce. Second, since the company was able to foresee large... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

regional board summits, and other networking events. Contact your local club to learn more. 1 Life & Leadership After HBS longitudinal alumni study. Most recent data collection 2021-2022. Interested in learning more about On Board? Sign... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Power and Influence for Positive Impact is a field guide... View Details

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

http://hbr.org/search/613053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-107 Ibrahim Dabdoub at the National Bank of Kuwait Ibrahim Dabdoub, the group chief executive of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), reflects on his past 30 years at the helm of the bank. Under his... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

15 Oct 2007
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Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

International is increasingly cognizant of the need to adapt to local contexts—as evinced not only by the India entry strategy but by changes in merchandising policies, clearer definition of decision rights, and even the astonishing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

Tips for Choosing RAM: If your code runs on your local machine, start by asking for the same amount of RAM or less (for example, if your laptop has 8GB of RAM, try asking for 8GB). If you are loading in native binary data files, ask for... View Details

05 Jul 2006
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The Accidental Innovator

of the problem is that the word "accident" is rather imprecise; not all accidents are equally accidental. If you bump into your neighbor at a local grocery store, without planning to, you might call that an accident. But that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

20 Oct 2003
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Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

created by the swift expansion of local and wide area corporate computer networks (LANS and WANs) and the privatized Internet brought a second Japanese challenge in the early 1990s. Critical here was the development of the workstation... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

21 Apr 2021
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The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

of local leadership: An individual manager can be an authentic communicator even if their organization is not. Jennifer Petriglieri’s colleague and husband, Gianpiero Petriglieri, recommends that leaders “tell your people what will happen... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

31 May 2017
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Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

years later another colleague relies on Amazon for delivery of dog food to a remote location in Maine at a price comparable to the local supermarket.) There is no question that Bezos has built a retailing juggernaut, one that is capturing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

rediscovered from the sector’s 18th-century roots. By embracing the three Cs as modern-day differentiators, Raffaelli found that independent bookstores have transformed buying a novel in your local bookstore from a simple exchange of... View Details

Keywords: April White

September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
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Algramo

By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal

Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details

Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile

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chairman, Americas, as well as an international director and the founder of Jones Lang LaSalle's highly acclaimed Public Institutions Business Unit, specializing in comprehensive real estate solutions for federal, state, and local... View Details

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The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano

Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts

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13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

and maneuvering to enhance their own standing. “Midcareer, I had a boss in Hong Kong who was quite inclusive and progressive. He was ... bringing in more diverse staff both locally and as expats and engaging many levels of the team,” said... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

03 May 2010
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What Is the Future of MBA Education?

hospitals teach tutorials and lead clinical rotations, and in that sense are considered faculty. The same notion of an extended faculty could apply to business schools, where the 10,000 might include alumni such as local business leaders,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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