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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
NPC had been quite successful doing. In 2011, the five-year revenue projections were revised significantly downward, and Wyss needed to cut costs while also building the organization's capabilities quickly in early 2012. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
little different for supposedly constrained and unconstrained firms, even though we find important differences in their characteristics and sources of financing. On the other hand, privately held firms (particularly small ones) and public firms with below...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this difference arises from the...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
of ironclad deadlines and word length. The result was a classic love-hate relationship. “While in the MBA Program, students tend to dislike report writing,” the Bulletin noted in 1978. “As alumni five or more years out of the School, the same students tend to give...
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Garry Emmons
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Covid. So our office population has had the ability to work from home. We have a robust remote working situation that, quite frankly, we’re still in and working through. But the majority of our workforce is in those warehouses or out in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
or is creating a product that hits that standard of what we think are relevant to decision makers and are readily comprehensible to them. Hittle: Yeah, that is quite a broad range of topics. And thank you for the work that you and your...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
learning is quite good. And if I don’t need to be on a campus, and I don’t want to actually be in a classroom, et cetera, even if I want the social engagement with all of my fellow students of similar ages, et cetera, I can actually have...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
unprecedented rates. Diabetes rates have boomed. Online data thefts have surged. Urbanization and waste have soared. What is happening? Is it globalization? Or is something much deeper taking place, something that the world had never...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
selfishness, and greed - and cause it to self-destruct. But to an extraordinary extent, the response of the city, and its financial and business community, was quite the opposite. In the months following September 11, compassion, not...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
business leaders who themselves could get private transportation easily. [Click to Expand] Overall, several phenomena intersect. Everyone cares, but we don't quite agree. America has great industries, for example in information...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
global base of customers. So we are one of the rare, and maybe the single, company that spreads equally on the three major continents. So even today, our revenue—it’s not equally, but it’s spread across the three major continents. And it helped us View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about your background and what led to the inception and the launch of Fiverr, which was started in 2010, quite early in the development of contingent workforce marketplaces. And, really, Fiverr was a pioneer in the space. How did you come...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
citizen, which equals about $490 billion in spending power. That’s an opportunity that many people don’t recognize. Our free-trial-to-conversion rate was above 80 percent for a long time; the industry average is about 33 percent. We think...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
fully remote organizations, it’s not that you never meet up in real life. So tell us a little bit about how you have structured approaches to physical spaces, the ability to do these “bursts.” Describe just a little bit the mechanics behind it.Silas: In-person...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
outstandingly well in their field. And if they do, the rewards will come. But if a man is good and loyal and does not achieve a so-called good rate of return, I will stay with him. Some people don’t become geniuses until after they are...
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