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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
kitchen) “They were self-taught, and they were amazing. It really showed me the promise of the people of eastern Kentucky,” says Marietta, who later drew on the same talent pool to launch Mountain Tech Media, a digital marketing firm that...
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
an affiliate program manager might be paid a modest salary plus 10 percent of year- over- year growth in the size of the affiliate program. But consider the incentives of someone paid in that way. If there is fraud in the affiliate...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
of Soviet times were abandoned—and with them the schools, hospitals, and infrastructure that had been built and sustained by large Soviet subsidies. Western economists urged the Kazakh government to break up the collectives into privately owned farms of 200 hectares...
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by George C. Lodge
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
the new program, "women executives long for the same kind of camaraderie and exchange that men can find with their peers in more informal settings." Among those in attendance was Jessie d'E. Bourneuf (MBA '75), then president of the King View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
customer value, and the transformation of the stores of offline-first retailers from fulfillment-dominant centers into experience-dominant centers, which simultaneously reduce store size and inventory while improving the customer...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
companies, they’re very familiar with how they manage a traditional supplier. So I’ve hired a consulting firm or an ad agency or something and know how to do that. I know how to manage a worker that works for me, where I provide them...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African...
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Many of the critical challenges in fast-moving technology businesses are tactical in nature: how and when do firms cooperate and compete with firms within their industry? How can small View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
a suitcase, and headed back to work. A pro bono study by several of the city's top consulting firms has estimated that the damage to New York City totals $83 billion. That figure may be low, some observers say, and of course it cannot...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into Dubai will be three times the...
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- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
were others he could work with to help put it on solid financial ground. BR: I called a friend of mine, a guy named Steve Kaplan. Steve is a partner in Fredrickson and Byron, a law firm here. So Steve joined me on this, and as we began...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA 1991). "Dani, I need your help," Cohen said. His private equity...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
brokerage and advisory firm that he hopes to build into, in his words, “the Goldman Sachs of Sri Lanka.” Taking a broad view of the country’s assets, Fernando highlights areas that keep popping up in discussions of Sri Lanka’s economic...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
host, Harvard Business School professor and non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Joe Fuller. My guest today for this, our 200th, episode is Euan Blair, Founder and CEO of Multiverse, a U.K.-based apprenticeship View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
your host, Bill Kerr. Daniel Dines joins me today. He’s co-founder and CEO of RPA firm UiPath, which counts Google, NASA, Autodesk, and DHL among its customers. Daniel started the firm in his native Romania...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
companies have embraced work from home more enthusiastically than other sectors. What does it take to succeed as a remote-first organization? What skills do firms need to make it work? And is HR up for the task?Welcome to the Managing the...
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- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded the market research View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Joe Fuller. Joe and the Managing the Future of Work team have just published new research that highlights how firms are leaving money on the table with their current approach to care. Let’s hear why. Welcome to the show, Joe. Joe Fuller:...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and wage rates. The book has a chapter about inequality, and it opens with the bus protest that happened against the tech workers in San Francisco. For those that aren’t familiar with this, many of the tech talent want to live in downtown San Francisco but there’s a...
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