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- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
confidence and departure. Minguela must repair the damage to Blink's management team, restore investor confidence, and continue Blink's rapid growth to deliver on the venture's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
only treatments are maintenance dialysis and kidney transplantation. The former requires visits to a treatment center for at least 12 hours a week, while a transplant—from either a living family member or a...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
huge fines and their executives live with the knowledge that lives were lost. Same with the lack of maintenance at PG&E. The company is convicted of killing 86 people, is paying huge fines, View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
profitable, loyal customers into high maintenance customers whose value stemming from their frequent purchasing is eroded by their increasing cost-to-serve. The case advocates a deeper appreciation of the two-way, reciprocating nature of...
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Anna Secino
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Illinois has serious financial issues, Chicagoland has far more vitality, economic activity, and interaction between downtown and the suburbs than Detroit. In terms of basic infrastructure, (water, bridges,...
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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
children from Pakistan. It's probably one of the nicest things anyone could have done to repair Indo-Pak relations and reduce the possibility of nuclear war. He has done it beautifully. He has a colleague...
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- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
accept new software as long as they suffered little inconvenience and little change except reduced costs. They wanted their financial reporting to have their traditional look and feel. They wanted to do...
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by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
cells and tissue to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage, or congenital defects. In late 2008 Tengion management faces a difficult dilemma. In light of the financial...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Repairing the damage done by the crash created opportunities to rebuild the business and make it stronger. Morgan Stanley's Slaughter cites three fundamental, lasting changes that, for the first time, made...
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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
roast beans—becoming one of only a small group of people in Starbucks' history to be judged qualified to do so. As a teenager, Michael Dell enjoyed taking complex computers apart, repairing or upgrading them, View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
Few industries have had the competitive challenges—the literal ups and downs—experienced by the U.S. airline industry since its formation in the 1920s. Consider that its early pioneers had the unenviable task of selling tickets to people...
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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
up until the point (and even after) the company tumbled off a cliff. Indeed, HBS professor Mark Bradshaw and collaborators Scott Richardson and Richard Sloan found that pre-year 2000 forecasts View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
of return to the economy that the government has ever realized" What if the proposed investment in infrastructure were split into two major programs, one for physical repair and construction View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
with idiosyncratic copiers for which no repair manual was of any help. This has led to subsequent efforts to develop organizations that are "leaky" when it comes to knowledge that needs to be shared View Details
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by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
suburbs, surface parking demands large gaps between buildings, perpetuating urban sprawl and making walking infeasible. Meanwhile, road maintenance saps budgets at every level of government. Automobile...
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- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
Informing consumers and restricting bad apples: that’s the dual role that occupational licensing is supposed to play. If a plumber, painting contractor, or HVAC repairer has a license it should matter to...
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- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
when he said that George Gilder correctly defines knowledge and entrepreneurship as the true driving forces of capitalism. "Airbnb and like companies are accelerating capitalism, not replacing it."...
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