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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Europe, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. How can the organization replicate its existing successful programs faster, both within and existing new countries? How can it best identify new areas into which ARK should expand over the...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Walmart's attempts to replicate its successful U.S. business model in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Central America, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, the UK, and Africa. Students reflect on the mixed results of these ventures and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash flow that is not View Details
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
underfunded schools to pay for specific projects and supplies needed by the teachers. “That program was based on a great idea, but it was struggling when we heard about it,” says Ellis. “We gave them advice on pricing and how to build demand, and now we’re working with...
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- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
show that it improves short-term productivity. However, although it improves performance in the short-term, we find that an overreliance on this task selection strategy hurts performance—as measured both by speed and revenue—in the long run. We then turn to the lab to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
founder wants to take that model and replicate it in Brazil, for example, he needs logistics and financing infrastructure. Even if the demand for flat-panel TVs exists, he can't just go and do the same thing. The Vizio example highlights...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
cultural narratives around economic mobility, the Australian data closely replicated the United States findings. Misperceptions of wealth inequality as well as preferences for more equal distributions may be common across developed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Sekiya wanting to replicate DISCO’s enviable success and introduce the P-Will system at their companies. However, none of these companies had actually implemented it. Seeing off another guest who had visited DISCO, Sekiya asked himself:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
student to prepare. A great virtue of the method is that it replicates the managerial work involved in solving a problem within a group. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0080 August 2013...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Energy Services, while Peter R. Formanek (MBA '68) and his AutoZone cared for car owners in need of quality parts and friendly service. This kaleidoscope of achievement was being replicated by HBS alumni virtually everywhere across the...
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
inclusion by removing the human from that decision making. But there’s a lot of issues to unpack there, because, like everyone knows at this point, AI is just replicating decisions—whether it’s coming from the dataset or if it’s somebody...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
replicate CIMIT at other locations around the globe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608036 Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A) Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
institutionalized in America over subsequent decades in a way that has been difficult to replicate in other countries. The role of history helps to explain why. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52209...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
should also be invariant when preferences over the null object change. We demonstrate that it is sufficient to require only one of Quesada's (2009) additional independence requirements to reestablish the result of Theorem 1 on the general domain R. Finally, while...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
that preferences for masculinity versus femininity mediated White participants' attraction to Blacks relative to Asians. Analysis of the 2000 United States Census replicated this pattern with interracial marriages. In Study 5, Blacks were...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
almost all other products and services. This was a match of ambition with capability that can be replicated in other fast growing, semi-informal cities in the developing world. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
imagined out of India hadn’t happened before. It was assumed that, you know, we are, as a set of engineers, very good at replicating things in a fairly efficient manner—producing code in a very efficient manner—and scaling the computation...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
other, forging lifetime bonds. Our camaraderie elevated all of us to achieve beyond that of our individual abilities. While I know no experience in my life will replicate the bond that we shared while deployed, I look forward to my next...
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