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- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
exploring the feasibility of canopy tours of the rainforest. “I was interested in startups and had experience in Latin America, so it seemed like a good fit after HBS,” recalls Skelly. “We wound up building what was essentially a...
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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to achieving social efficiency. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
of modern Chinese professionalism; the implications of professionalism as an import in China; the impact of socialism, the developmental state, and the rampant commercialism on the professions in China; and the feasibility of liberal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
The idea seemed feasible because Mends had once met Winfrey through a personal connection at college. "I thought it was a fabulous possibility for several reasons," Koehn explained. "One, based on intuition, was that...
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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
countries within the next 12 months. The CEO and Director of Business Development met to discuss the feasibility of accelerating the timeline, potential bottlenecks in the product development process, resource management, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Detect and anticipate how to manage conflicts in business models Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it might acquire new customers Sketch an idea for a platform that a company you’re familiar with might launch and determine the transition’s View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
healthcare, to make it more feasible for other entrepreneurs to do similar work. "The odds against succeeding in a developing country are severe," he said. Robin Hood Via London Born and raised in India, Shetty went to medical...
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- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
sustainable cotton supply chain in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa. Key dilemma for its managers: feasibility of introducing tractor technology for improving yield. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
management and waste to energy, as well as the characteristics of the waste management industry. The intent of the (A) case is to have students perform operational analysis on the organic waste to energy process to evaluate whether a potential new plant is economically...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
through Jakarta are jammed so tightly that walking from car rooftop to rooftop seems feasible during rush hour—roughly three hours from six o’clock in the morning and then again for about four hours in the evening. Japanese-made minivans...
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
propose a market rule that avoids excessive fragmentation while almost achieving social efficiency, and we argue that implementation of this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
ongoing uncertainty about the pandemic, all departments scrutinized their budgets, preserving only those critical, strategically important expenses that were feasible in light of COVID-related restrictions. People were the priority. To...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
had to be licensed in the state in which that image was generated. But the easing of state-level licensure has largely allowed physicians who are licensed in one state to practice in another. The easing of that regulation has, in turn, allowed telemedicine to become a...
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- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
these dynamics—and the feasibility of improving them—to get a more realistic picture of its long-term prospects. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55510 Financial Development and Technology Diffusion By:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the global context and for the most risky transactions. Finally we...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
labor-intensive industries, contractual arrangements with foreign buyers are technically feasible and might provide the same business benefits as FDI. (As a form of equity financing, FDI is typically prominent elsewhere in the world in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
unacceptable. Still, Madrick argues, there may be more reason to hope now than ever before. Rather than attempting to treat the symptoms of poverty, we might be able to ameliorate its worst effects through a single, simple, and politically View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the current mode of innovation, the MinuteClinic, the Ready Care Clinic, feasible today? They've got very powerful protectors. They're housed in Wal-Mart. They're housed in Target. These guys have got very powerful allies who have very...
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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-066.pdf The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes Authors:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract This paper provides a new, empirically driven application of the dynamic Mirrleesian framework by studying a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty penalty. Only a minority of the novelty penalty could be related...
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Carmen Nobel