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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
academics are uniquely suited to play, says Karen Mills, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS. “When I went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to inform policymaking,” she says....
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by Michael Blanding
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
improvements ensuring peaceful coexistence of pedestrians, buses, cars, trucks, and bicycles. Maintenance is not a vision. It is often not a priority. Consider a repair-avoiding couple I know in Washington, DC, who are serial home buyers. When they live in a View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
disruption. Download the paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43906 Cases & Course MaterialsRomney vs. Obama and U.S. Energy Policy Abdelal, Rawi, and Kaitlyn TuthillHarvard Business School Case 713-050 In 2012, the energy sector in the United States was...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
ever. Now, then we started to see—and I think it was driven by pent-up demand for, let’s say, in the pandemic itself, for stuff, because people were doing stuff around the house in those lockdowns. Then,...
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- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
fall short, too. India’s struggle with poverty comes into clear view on the taxi ride downtown: Crowded slums with makeshift housing hug the roadway, and entire families settle down for the night on the city’s sidewalks. Also visible are...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
logistical coordination with city officials on issues such as parking and access to Dallas’s light rail system. Responding to constant demands for information and decisions can be stressful, she admits, but the challenges are inspiring....
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
that also housed a hamburger stand. It was 100 square feet and featured a single copier, an offset press, film processing, and a small selection of stationery and school supplies. "I essentially had a concept that would work on any...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left many without any access to...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
involved in Scranton, a city just over two hours away from New York with the potential to outgrow its punch-line status and draw millennials looking for affordable housing and a higher quality of life. Then, over lunch at Caravia, a...
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- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
these other sectors, there is a need for more innovation in both government policy and business strategy. "America Needs a Chief Strategy Officer Authors:Andy Zelleke and Justin Talbot Zorn Publication:Foreign Policy (November 2, 2012) Abstract The White View Details
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
given calendar year. As you think about moving from one house to another or one apartment to another, you want to make sure that there’s complete consistency in using hotspots as an “always on, no matter where I am” device to keep being...
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the housing is cheap. In fact, no longer so cheap, because so many people are moving. Is that more myth or reality?Lord: What we have seen is that students are exploring jobs that historically would’ve required relocation and now no...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
procurement policies. General Médica, a vendor of high-complexity medical equipment, knew that their products were competitive, but it was also aware that they could not compete on price. A demanding market would reward General Médica,...
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of analysis around where are employers saying they’re most underweight in skills, where are some of the biggest demand areas? It will not surprise you to know that data skills and technical skills were among the most critical, but also...
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place that’s primarily about housing people at desks doing individual work to being about, “How do you provide space for people to come together and do work? How do you provide the opportunity for people to have interactions with each...
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practices is that employers can demand from these vendors that they properly train their individual employees at that company how to use these programs. A bad actor within your company can go in and say, “Well, I want to exclude all...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment. In this new edition, they add many new examples, plus case studies from many exceptionally demanding sites, including Etsy, Nasdaq,...
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