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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
unique to India before iTrust launched. “It would have saved a lot of time and emotional energy,” he writes. The Upside of the Economic Downturn Given a choice, Agarwala and Varma probably would have kept their day jobs had they foreseen... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“literally saved my life.” When Andre Bastien became self-employed, he and his wife, Gabrielle Rene, found a plan through the Connnector that was superior to what they had had before. Not long afterward, Bastien, experiencing chest pains,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
savings of 40% versus national brands through the elimination of the BrandTax, the hidden costs the company claimed consumers paid for a national brand. As the venture-funded startup entered the fiercely competitive CPG industry, it was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
to power a new PA system for the village mosque. “You have to lead from the front,” Khoja says of AKDN’s decision to go against the cultural norm. “These are the things John Kotter taught us in AMP. You’re trying to change the paradigm.” Of course, paying a bribe would... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
save BlackBuck—but at the risk of losing control. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/819031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-020 RunKeeper The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Maybe it all begins at a dinner table in Beaverton, Oregon. It’s the late 1980s, at the height of the spotted owl controversy—a pitched battle between loggers and conservationists over whether preserving a bird’s habitat is more critical than View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
restaurants in China. It was all the things that investors were pressing for—moves that saved the company $200 million by the end of 2016, with a target of $500 million by the end of 2018. “It was housekeeping,” says Kempczinski of the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
increased by 9.4% following the first managerial change. Our results highlight the important complementarities between incentives and management practices, especially in developing countries. A back-of-the-envelope calculation that suggests India could View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
you've done on firms' location decisions. Could businesses be doing a better job of that? MP: American businesses should be locating certain activities abroad because that makes them more competitive by enabling them to better penetrate international markets. In some... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
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every founder confronts in some way. We analyze certain pivotal choices made by over 20 founders who set out to change the world in small and big ways. We meet a Lebanese young woman who spent 10 years making the perfect swimming goggle, and we look at the journeys of... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
epidemiology, cost, and market share information given in the case to estimate potential cost savings one year after the introduction of biosimilars. The case also explores qualitative questions around the appropriate communication with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
North-South freight transport suggest that if the cartel were broken, railroads would have passed through 50% of their cost savings from standardization, generating a 10% increase in trade on the sampled routes. The results demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
labor force attachment than accepted applicants. These findings are consistent with the theoretical prediction that disability insurance may encourage individuals to save more in the present and plan to apply for disability benefits in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
to run the regulatory process in parallel with research. To save time and labor, the task force has developed turn-key trial protocols and invested in consistent assays for analyzing vaccine effectiveness, and the UK’s centralized health... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
said I would risk that....After this he put out his hand and said, ‘Very well, I’ll take you.’” When Shackleton reviewed the qualifications of applicants who had previously been to the Antarctic, he looked for perseverance and stamina. For example, he hired Tom Crean,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2004) recently led an effort to save summer internships for Black and Hispanic youth. Bobo is CEO of Project Destined, a nonprofit with a platform that teaches inner-city kids about real estate investment. COVID-19 forced him to move all... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
saved customers money and their strong brands generated more traffic and sales but that most retailers, looking only at gross margins, missed this added value. Pepsi managers struggled to craft a strategy that would convince retailers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the principal can increase its profits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
lot of young people experience between a very exciting digital reality and the dead world of the textbook.” Olson adds that most publishers are overpricing e-books, effectively subsidizing the declining business of print publishing. “The View Details