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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the fact that a large portion of new businesses is created in the informal sector. The authors identify the main obstacle to this area as the country's insufficient access to credit for small entrepreneurs....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
for N=1, individuals, that customizes therapeutics. If you look at drug development thus far in the history of mankind, we’ve focused a lot of our efforts on small molecules, like pills that you would take every day—Lipitor, Viagra, these...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London...
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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
encouraged his whole executive team to become leaders, and it was that large cadre that vowed to continue Dyke's programs after he left. The reproduction process involves finding and empowering natural leaders, regardless of their titles...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
more substantial investment later. On the other hand, if the technology disappoints, you would have lost only the small investment up front. Q: What are the main barriers you see for integrating new analytics within retail organizations?...
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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) was born in Detroit, the first in his family to graduate from college. His Dad was a Chrysler factory worker whose schooling ended in fifth grade, his Mom a homemaker. But...
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- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
Abstract—Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about their exclusion, do you see it as being due to technology being misapplied, shortcomings of HR, or some other factors?Fuller: Well, we were trying to understand what caused employers to skip over large numbers of applicants. These...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Altruism and solidarity were also significant drivers in the private sector, resulting in large part from the long-standing tradition of charity and civil commitment derived from the region's powerful Catholic background.2 For some...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Yeah. So give us some tangible examples of customers and how they’re using this technology.Dines: We have started mostly in the financial industry. Big banks, big insurance companies, were our initial customers. And we have some of the...
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- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Indian immigrant family, as he develops an entrepreneurial career, participates in the Indian diaspora, and builds a family life. It provides background on Paresh's heritage, describes his youth and education (including HBS), his learning experience as the manager of a...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Amy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies tested whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with core cultural values...
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engender entrepreneurship and adaptability while maintaining control and realizing economies. All companies, whether large diversified multinationals or small entrepreneurial startups wrestle with these...
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- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
to invest in social service provision. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212055-PDF-ENG China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor Shawn Cole and Lilei XuHarvard Business School Case 212-030 China Life must decide...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a freelancer myself—not very extensively, but using freelancers pretty extensively—had me thinking about the fact that this was a very large market that had a tremendous amount of friction. I mean, just putting two people to work together...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,...
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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
I test for learning vs. effort allocation effects of promotion-based incentives. I find that promotion and demotion decisions for store managers of a major U.S.-based fast-food retailer (QSR) are sensitive to nonfinancial performance...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
organization and take a small company to a large company was to create better jobs. Ari Medoff Fundamentally that is the journey that I set out on in 2011 when I graduated. I searched for a company. I sent...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
capital that they needed to grow. A second model is the small business investment partnership or SBIC, to get equity capital into small businesses that venture capital isn't reaching. Private investors make...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
the country's leaders will be making in the coming months, decisions "that will shape our world for years, possibly decades to come." Leimsider urged reflection and debate on topics such as civilian casualties in time of war, personal freedom View Details
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg