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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
becomes a department, becomes the whole company. And so that whole mode of viral mode of growth really propelled a lot of those early years. And it’s something we really engineered, too. I mean, we were all inspired by the rise of the View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
for the very first time in this part of the world. And it was very important for us to start our beta, which we launched out of Dubai, with a consumer base that knew what we're talking about. And therefore we purposefully—actually,...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
goal. When you consider that your job-perhaps even your industry-may disappear, you have no choice but to take control. Filled with stories of professionals of all kinds who have profited from this proactive approach, Own Your Future...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing terms. These patterns help...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
lower-skilled participants, consistent with high-skilled workers having a greater chance of winning cash prizes. In addition, the cash incentive acted most acutely by increasing the fraction of subjects who worked more than the minimum. "Workers' ability to fit...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
big-screen subscriptions for cable or any of the many streaming services, from Amazon to Hulu, that people are consuming in their evening hours—a market against which Whitman says they are not in direct competition. The founders worked...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
learning that will be useful to future missions. This might include decisions on how much telemetry data to provide in flight, a useful source of fault-finding data should things go wrong, as well as the choice of when to fly a new...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
individual," explains Bhide. "Important but obvious background information, which might otherwise consume over one-half of class time, is presented within a matter of five or ten minutes. This creates an opportunity to explore more basic...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
they could access high-quality education but fit it into their very busy lives already. If you looked at that population of adults, they typically have children already. Over 70 percent of them are working full time. They have many obligations that already View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
make those types of outcomes, not fate, but the result of systems and the result of choices that we make as a society? And for me, partially what made this possible was the availability of skills and economic opportunity. And so that’s...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices. We model the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that came out about navigating talent hotspots. It goes through and talks about, do you make a choice like General Electric did, to move your headquarters? Are you going to open up a series of corporate labs across the talent hotspots?...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective framework in which to transform healthcare systems. It helps leaders answer such questions as: Why change? What to change? How to change? And when to change? Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and...
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