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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
plant stock, fertilizers, and pesticides; and began directly paying them a premium for better beans. Higher yields and quality increased the growers' incomes, the environmental impact of farms shrank, and Nestlé's reliable supply of good...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Governors University: Pursuing the network effects of competency based education WGU President Scott Pulsipher returns to the podcast for an update on the online institution’s mission to extend the reach of skill-oriented instruction. The HBS alum argues that the focus...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
an undertaking of President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power in a shocking 2015 election when the 10-year incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, called an early election at the urging of an astrologer who foretold the timing as auspicious....
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
country, manufacturing capacity, supply chains, and money, lots of money. As the head of the United Kingdom’s new Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) has a bird's-eye view of the whole process. A life science venture capitalist...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting academic View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that the inability to save contributes to this indebtedness. Access to free savings accounts substantially decreases participants' propensity to use short-term credit. In addition, participants who...
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Anna Secino
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
individuals would ever want to share content in p2p networks when sharing is more costly than freeriding. The key to solving the puzzle in a world where individuals are selfish is the following. In addition to offering content, sharers also View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working towards this goal and had chosen...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
constructed? Did they have the type of impact that they were designed to? Or could we have done a better job?Rivers: I think in all things, those programs could have been better. We all could have been better. Certainly in the moment of the pandemic—it came on fairly...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
recent past. Even when the supply faltered, the demand never went away. And in the year that was just ending, Sahlman had taught first-year Finance to some 180 students—two sections of 90—who had rated him highly as a teacher. This wasn’t...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
and Noble in books, Best Buy in electronics—offer similar rewards. Boots, the UK-based pharmacy and beauty supply retailer, offers a substantial reward of 4 percent, but that rate is more exception than rule. This type of reward is...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
deliver manpower and supplies overseas, Kaiser, who had never built a ship before, rose to the challenge and successfully directed the construction of thousands of Liberty ships. These merchant vessels gave the U.S. Navy the overwhelming...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
and have kids, but Guillaume and I decided that we would rather take a reduced income from one of us not working full-time so that there’s a sort of shock absorber built into the system to handle sick days, teacher meetings, school...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
decade. The employers in the U.S. consistently adopt a posture that the way the system is supposed to work, there should be a steady supply of people who are prepared to do the work that they are advertising in job postings at the all-in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
needed something where they wouldn't get slapped on the wrist by procurement or by their boss. You know they couldn't use something where they were describing a proprietary project launching into the ether paying in a credit card. We...
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