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- 02 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive
absences every day and were managing to keep production running, so the CEO called in Tamayo and his colleagues to understand how. “They realized, if you help me today, then I’ll help you tomorrow.” To gauge how managers were coping, the researchers implemented a View Details
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The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
relatively high leverage as a means to reduce the overall cost of capital by many banking practitioners is interpreted as folly by some, and defended by others as a clever decision given the capital market’s apparent failure to appreciate...
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- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
money. They have to be clever experiments, not expensive ones. Q: How does each country treat its diaspora in terms of stoking entrepreneurship at "home"? A: To put it bluntly, China has embraced its diaspora, and India has...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
often supplies the idea. You can tap a button to grab the “original sound” of someone else’s TikTok, record your response, and seconds later you have your own video. It doesn’t have to be particularly clever or funny or even look good...
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by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
instantly ubiquitous. The warm heart and bold typeface stoked positivity, and along with a series of events and clever ad campaigns tied to this theme, helped lift tourism spending long after its initial launch. And by emphasizing how the...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
banking practitioners is interpreted as folly by some, and defended by others as a clever decision given the capital market’s apparent failure to appreciate the associated risks. Begenau and Stafford suggest and provide evidence for an...
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- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
little mutual fund that engaged in hedging. (We weren’t even clever enough to call it a “hedge fund.”) Hence my question. What’s the future of digital currency? What do you think? P.S. Everything turned out well for the two of us. My...
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- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
really tell who did what. Open source is different. As Lerner and Tirole write, "Outsiders are able to see not only what the contribution of each individual was and whether that component 'worked,' but also whether the task was hard, if the problem was addressed...
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- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
appears afterward. Martha Lagace: It's a clever idea to tell your story through the fictional character of Jim Barton, a fledgling CIO. Why describe CIO challenges through fiction? Rob Austin, Dick Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell: Our...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
conversation (which tends to create anger, which can flow back toward the proposal or the proposer). Or they get that head-about-to-burst feeling, which they relieve by setting aside the proposal or plan. Some individuals can be astonishingly View Details
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by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
streaming, you can bypass ads altogether, not even be exposed to them. Brands have had to get much more clever on how they're going to reach consumers. What you see a lot of times now is these, almost like micro ads, these 5- and...
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- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
do make a mess. We see, for example, people getting really clever at experiments with cheap parts, or doing the edgy, risky things inside a computer-based simulation. Miles Davis shows us another way. Get really good people and put them...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
conjecturings. Would it not be nice if, parallel to this building, there were another building where the neat shipping cartons were unpacked and the clever fabrications went through uninspection, disassembly — were torn back down and...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
places to rent; in other words, build up the supply side. Their first challenge was to identify these property owners and rally them in large enough numbers to attract renters. Chesky and Gebbia had the clever idea to avoid starting from...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
During our first year at HBS, my classmates and I took the opportunity to build cleverlayover, a flight search engine that uses advanced algorithms to find flights hundreds of dollars cheaper than any other search engine. We were able to acquire 20,000 users within...
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Pamela Harder
DC and California. Work Experience: Commonwealth of Virginia (state government, economic development, talent strategy, higher education), Clever (Series B edtech startup), FSG (social sector consulting), Accion Venture Lab (impact...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Science Buddy
activities, and careers. Looking forward and outside the formal education setting, we intend to develop clever tools and targeted resources, just like we did for science fairs, to inspire people of all ages to study science and to...
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- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
Photo credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post Photo credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post Dry cleaning might appear to be a cut and dry business—and in many cases it is. But in the twenty years that Jon Simon (MBA 1980) has owned Parkway Cleaners in the DC...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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How to Close the Health Gap
where innovation is winning the day. An increasing number of biotech start-ups are setting up shop in developing countries, and VC firms are chasing them. In Hyderabad, India, for example, Shantha Biotechnics created clever...
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