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Pranav Kothari
interests. "I was amazed by the infrastructure, how smoothly things functioned here." Impressed both by mechanics and America, Pranav pursued an engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, his curiosity...
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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
Consider the title. "The Electronic Century" is the twenty-first century. The "inventing" refers to the creation of the technological and institutional foundations—the "infrastructure"—during the latter...
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- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
entrepreneur in his own right. The program has some 250 alumni from 128 institutions and more than 40 countries. Program classes included “Transforming an Educational Institution—Getting Participant-Centered Learning to Work” (with...
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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
that German companies have been able to excel in highly engineered products in part because German consumers pay close attention to technical product qualities when they purchase. Q: Although consumers presumably benefit from being...
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- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Indeed, a majority of the Bank's 185-member countries never receive a chance to sit at the table, suffering in tangible and less-tangible ways in terms of continued poverty for their people. In 2008 the World Bank's two main development View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
high-level policy issues with senior executives or technical nuances of research with fellow academics. His influence on the academic field of operations management and on industrial practice has been profound." Jaikumar was highly...
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- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
a set of technical skills and, particularly, marketing leadership. We basically branded our story: Two Harvard grads coming back to our hometown, trying to build a better education system. That was our sales pitch. We took a business...
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Educational Services
- 14 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020
virtual experience requires plans to onboard, train, and develop impactful work for students to take on during this abnormal time. 2. Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting The importance of naming and addressing institutional...
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All Industries
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
institutions across sectors must be mobilized before technical solutions can be applied. Along similar lines, technical knowledge of solutions alone is not enough to scale...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Modularity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
publications and technical journals revealed that firms in each country followed a distinctive, national pattern. U.S. companies used a tightly focused, project-based mode of organization that emphasized experimentation and relied on...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on industry emergence and...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
of Science (MS) in Engineering Sciences from SEAS, is designed to fuse the strengths from both management and technology programs and create the next generation of inspirational leaders. “There are moments in the lives of institutions...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
outdated, electricity was sporadic, communication was difficult, basic resources were scarce, institutions were undeveloped, and the need for training was tremendous. Despite these obstacles, Lu was able to make a difference in the lives...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could actually talk to the people and look...
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Julia Hanna;
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- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
Working PapersShamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel. Abstract We apply institutional theory to explain how firms respond to information disclosure. Considering the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even experienced professionals to make systematic mistakes in their selection decisions, favoring alumni from academic institutions with...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Stanford Business School, INSEAD in France, IESE in Spain, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "EDP has helped create a working relationship between institutions with a truly global point of view," says Clark. "The Bank and the...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of...
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Carmen Nobel