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- March 2004 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
Restricting Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value in Texas Public Schools
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
The Commission of Agriculture in Texas wants to improve the nutritional quality of the school lunch program to help fight obesity in students. It needs the cooperation of the soft drink industry to change their products and the manner in which they provide financial...
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Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations;
Nutrition;
Food;
Quality;
Education;
Education Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Hal Hogan. "Restricting Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value in Texas Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 904-420, March 2004. (Revised August 2004.)
- Article
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
By: Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente and Vincent Pons
Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because...
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Devoto, Florencia, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente, and Vincent Pons. "Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 4 (November 2012): 68–99.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Networking Frictions: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Networking Events in Lomé
By: Stefan Dimitiadis and Rembrand Koning
Spatial proximity between firms plays a crucial role in entrepreneurship by creating knowledge spillovers, enabling resource sharing, and sparking productivity gains. Building on these insights, research has explored whether institutions and organizations can engineer...
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Dimitiadis, Stefan, and Rembrand Koning. "Networking Frictions: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Networking Events in Lomé." Working Paper, February 2023.
- September 2023
- Article
The Dynamics of Team Learning: Harmony and Rhythm in Teamwork Arrangements for Innovation
By: Jean-François Harvey, Johnathan R. Cromwell, Kevin J. Johnson and Amy C. Edmondson
Innovation teams must navigate inherent tensions between different learning activities to produce high levels of performance. Yet, we know little about how teams combine these activities—notably reflexive, experimental, vicarious, and contextual learning—most...
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Groups and Teams;
Learning;
Performance Effectiveness;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Harvey, Jean-François, Johnathan R. Cromwell, Kevin J. Johnson, and Amy C. Edmondson. "The Dynamics of Team Learning: Harmony and Rhythm in Teamwork Arrangements for Innovation." Administrative Science Quarterly 68, no. 3 (September 2023): 601–647.
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
accepting and educating women. Hence, the country sports a large number of highly educated, highly qualified women with advanced degrees in business, engineering, economics, and foreign languages-all useful...
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by Carmen Nobel
- November 2012
- Supplement
Bharti Airtel in Africa/Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel
Remarks by the Chairman of Bharti Airtel about the company's expansion into Africa.
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Mergers &Acquisitions;
Innovation;
Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Emerging Markets;
Innovation and Invention;
Africa
Palepu, Krishna G. "Bharti Airtel in Africa/Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 113-702, November 2012.
- 03 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort
Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. My name is Colby DeWeese and I graduated in...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
Henderson What would you do if you had the Dalai Lama's complete attention for 10 minutes? That's the situation Professor Rebecca Henderson faced in front of 1,000 people during a panel discussion with the religious leader, part of his...
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Dalai Lama
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
educating them to invent a difference in the world as public leaders and as people who collaborate with them. “I would love it if, a decade from now and maybe sooner, people thought about becoming public...
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- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC...
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Margie Kelley
- Article
Learning-Before-Doing in the Development of New Process Technology
By: Gary P. Pisano
Pisano, Gary P. "Learning-Before-Doing in the Development of New Process Technology." Research Policy 25, no. 7 (October 1996): 1097–1119.
- October 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Supplement
Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (B)
By: Eric Werker, Onyechi Ezekwueche, Olatomiwa Igun and Alice Wei
Werker, Eric, Onyechi Ezekwueche, Olatomiwa Igun, and Alice Wei. "Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 713-043, October 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of...
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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
helped pay for scholarships and faculty salaries. But when protestors in the 1980s challenged the board to end investments in companies operating in South View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
to improve resource efficiency, creating and discovering new game-changing planet-friendly raw ingredients, reducing waste across the value chain, and designing compelling brands to educate consumers and shift consumption behaviors. Or...
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Energy / Cleantech
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
switched to a new employer 27 percent left employment to attend college or another post-secondary education program 22 percent returned to high school Five percent were neither working nor in school [div...
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States 20 Apr 2020 Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 Justin Crist Lee Author MBA Students tag Entrepreneurship Student...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Startups Are Raking in VC Funds
New data shows that HBS alumni are leading the b-school pack in raising venture capital to fund their startups, according to an article on the website Business Because. According to data compiled by PitchBook, 1,069 HBS MBAs have founded...
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Finance