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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that...
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- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
marketplaces and the SMART Box for term loans, are steps in the right direction, and could provide a useful basis for federally-mandated disclosure boxes. 3. Develop joint guidance on bank-fintech partnerships View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
starting to come due for a culture not used to paying them. “Thousands of years of environmental degradation have put more strain on a finite amount of land than any other place on earth" "China has the longest political and cultural tradition in the world of...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
furniture design but in a warehouse, a fleet of trucks, and a staff of drivers—the type of capital-intensive vertical integration he planned for later on, after Gaia Design had established its reputation as a source for well-designed, good-quality furniture. The...
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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
and skills that the American economy needs.” (Higgins) “ provided it is spent on the areas where there is the greatest performance gap ” (Lewisman). Samuel Reich added that, “ it should (be) limited (to) schools where standard tests...
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- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
transformation of the very nature of the innovation search process. We find intermediate disclosure has the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solution approaches, but also the effect of limiting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the short run, while the results in the long run are more varied and much less certain. Immigrants in the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
your actions and misconduct to students? The recorded answer offers sobering lessons for anyone with business ambitions. What’s a Boss Worth? Quite a lot, it turns out. Good bosses can have a multiplier effect that ups everyone’s game, according to research by...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
says, “but it did make me think more carefully about the trade-offs and my limited perspective.” The case reveals that Abi Chaker is forging his own way, crafting an innovative but risky business strategy for Cedar Environmental that does...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the...
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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
trying to build institutions is like building sandcastles. There is no foundation," he said, citing the analogy of a bricklayer and an architect. "The ones appearing to do the job initially are bricklayers," he said. "The View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
father, who felt responsibility for these companies, for shepherding them through both the good times and the bad.” Waite explained this innovative model of partnership in the book Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories edited...
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- Profile
Tiffany Pham
product features, and partnerships with top-tier brands. “With our work on MOGUL being recognized by Business Insider, Forbes, Huffington Post, Yahoo!, and Cadillac, it is exciting to leverage the internal and external momentum we have...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
managers. Health care innovators must master not only managerial skills but also the complex forces affecting the sector." One clear message emerging from the conference was the importance of change management. How are concepts underlying...
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- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
show us a way of regaining what we have lost." Another reason for such insecurity, Reinhold Gerbsch proposes, is "the increasing rate of change in the marketplace." Citing an old Buddhist saying, "When the pupil is ready, the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Resisting the impulse for drastic change, Bhidé offers a blueprint for correcting the historic misalignment between the numbers-driven financial sector and the innovation-driven “real economy.” He advocates tough, straightforward limits...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
by focusing on a more limited question, namely whether a business case be made for acting in an environmentally sustainable way, which I define as acting in any way that reduce a firm's environmental footprint. Publisher's link:
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
higher average value. Using data on 165,410 projects posted on Kickstarter (2009–2015), we report findings consistent with the model's predictions. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50821 Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column, nevertheless was rejected by only...
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by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion in developing strong and...
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by Sean Silverthorne