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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best...
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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
opportunities that they did have. The relative inflexibility has crept in since the 1970s—and not just for reasons internal to the company. The second reason is that they had the human capital, knowledge, and skills to take advantage of the opportunities that presented...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong...
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
from exclusivity or perception and things like that—toward does it deliver the value proposition of economic mobility and opportunity, et cetera?—well, how are we leveraging that 360,000 graduate network and activating all of our rising...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
conversations. For us, the key is, is this a greater unlock for your career mobility and success and for your employer? If it is, then we should be teaching it. The crucial thing, though, about our learning experience is, we’ve become...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
think it's really about enabling companies, big, small, otherwise, to be able to get far more out of human capital and to be able to better align that to what they're doing. And to go from thinking about the benefits of a...
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