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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
design one of the most innovative student-driven initiatives to hit the HBS campus in years. The contest provided students with the opportunity to develop a business idea from concept through execution - an...
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Susan Young
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50625 February 2016 Harvard Business Review The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery By: Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
takes away productivity." Fans of the television show, Alter Ego, in which avatars controlled by contestants competing to become the next pop star, would argue that Alter Ego is little more than an introduction to the Metaverse. They’re...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. WINNER: Tough Tech: Most Promising Climate Tech Venture $5,000 Prize Grensol - Rajiv...
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- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39907 Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'? Organizational Design and Identity Change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation By: Gulati, Ranjay, Ryan Raffaelli, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the prospects of video game competition as a spectator sport—“for two mind-numbing hours, contestants stared at their screens and manipulated laser guns”—but Warner Communications was elated by all the attention it received, and the View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food and nonfood lines, but differ...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
annual contest among budding entrepreneurs here at HBS, were awaiting the arrival of software being designed in India that would allow them to demonstrate smoothly-functioning Web sites important to their...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
led to more honest and open communication—became the foundation for Equitas Advisory Group, an evidence-based consultancy designed to help businesses and organizations reimagine and achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals....
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes and environmental reporting are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get to the outside world. I tried to do that by entering every...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
at many non-financial firms have highlighted a "low-leverage puzzle" and raised questions about the implications of cash holdings for corporate investment and economic growth. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50095 2015 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
and an hourly countdown clock. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay's well-established corporate project-development processes. When the treasure hunt began, 10 million contestants logged on, crashing the local servers. Justus, eBay's...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
trying to move the basic building-block skills out of the required curriculum and into prematriculation. Our goal is to free up time for students to delve more deeply into the economic logic required to solve problems and into the larger general management issues of...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely...
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- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
company. So I announced that I would give free hosting for a year and a little capital, to anyone that had something really cool. I came back with some other tech people. We did a contest and I started picking companies. That little View Details
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare costs. All other choices,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
(MultiBank), focusing on its insurance division (EurInsurance), which suffered large losses in the European insurance crisis of 2002-2003. At MultiBank, the insurance crisis opened up a field of contestability in which new control agents...
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Sean Silverthorne