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- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of black students—including HBS’s...
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- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
reviews. I’ve made a butternut squash soup that tastes like butternut squash so that’s good, even if it didn’t make the cut for further development at Clover. We move on to a no-brainer single-origin chocolate from Goodnow Farms in...
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Agriculture
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
change. According to this research, there are two primary factors that can cause institutions to change. First, institutional entrepreneurs, including individual actors or small groups of actors, are able to think and act outside the...
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- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
challenges students to think about target customer identification and talent management in a start-up environment. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818001 Harvard Business School Case 915-418 The China Dairy View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
included exploring the potential for ecotourism, organizing a women’s farming collective, and coordinating efforts to save crops from raids by elephants. He enjoyed the experience so much that he extended his term by a year to help a...
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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements....
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
their education system different from ours? What is their farming system that's different from ours, or similar to ours? So I always seek out to meet the locals. April White: So how did your love of travel become WildChina? Zhang Mei:...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
elections, yet the new owners had promised to find a way to finance and build a new home for the team. That Baer was able to help the ownership group keep that promise has to do, in no small part, with a well-honed instinct for marketing...
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
hair salon, a donut shop, and a hip burger restaurant, and students worked in small teams on problems such as marketing, finance, sales, and growth strategy. Making Robotics Fly HUBweek, a civic collaboration founded by The Boston Globe,...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professors Pearson Hunt and Gordon Donaldson), which has been used by more than 300 universities. The faculty was relatively compact and small when I joined HBS; the curriculum and the way courses were organized and taught was quite...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
Fernando Abstract Attempts to explain the astonishing differences in agricultural productivity around the world typically focus on farm size, farmer risk aversion, and credit constraints, with an emphasis on how they might serve to limit...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer brands, the firm had won numerous awards and garnered considerable attention within the advertising industry. In mid-2008, Big Spaceship...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a small set of choices to the rest of the organization. Starting from that definition, the paper studies what makes a decision "strategic" and what makes strategy important, considering...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food shortages. The average Cuban...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
some changes to the area around Calhoun in the late 1990s. One by one, farms that had been in the same family for generations were going up for sale. “I thought, well, I guess these third-generation kids don’t want to be farmers,” he...
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