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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down....
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of...
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- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
by so many financial and regulatory systems that can be invisible or unexpected. If we can inspire more small businesses to stand up, identify the obstacles ahead of them, and work together to change them, then I think we could experience...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around the bend. Could PRT change the face of public transportation in cities and...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Faculty Research Online
make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful. Should they be disengaged from the determination of compensation and, if so, how? Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5563.html. Grooming Next-Generation Leaders Professors Earl...
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Anil Doshi
change decision-making given the propagation of customer and market data? How do individuals value their personal information and their privacy? What business models are best for the provision of information goods? Ultimately, I decided...
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- 16 Mar 2018
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Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) has always been curious about technology and how things worked. However, while earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at MIT, he realized he didn’t have an affinity for View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
access to cosmetics and other products that would help them perk up their day, perk their looks. “Most recently now, I oversee operations for Airbnb. And to me, this is one of the most mission-driven companies in the world today, where we...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big
technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can give you freedom from the electric grid without View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
gain to the other and is equivalent to decreasing the dispersion of the latter's values for the items he does not receive without changing their total. One-agent monotonicity requires that such a change...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Many in business long believed that product innovation sprung from inside their own companies—that is, until economist Eric Arthur von Hippel came along in the late 1970s. Von Hippel proposed that users were as important, if not more...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in...
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- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
Cynthia says, "but preferred to be on the side of figuring out what products could be. I wanted to move from analyzing results to creating them." At HBS, Cynthia immersed herself in entrepreneurial coursework and club...
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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
The really good news, I think, is that opinion leaders in Japan have been persuaded by the book. I was invited to personally give a copy to the prime minister. We are hoping that the book becomes the basis for—and becomes an important part of—the View Details
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems and the ways in which they evolve...
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- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation By: Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf Abstract—This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
like I had, on Wall Street, but really wanted to change careers or make social enterprise an integral part of their career. And we accomplished a lot. We grew the summer fellowship so that more and more students tried social...
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