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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
online hub for agribusiness entrepreneurs. “We have created a resource center offering COVID-19 information and weekly webinars, and we are developing training and small-grant interventions programs to help SMEs survive the pandemic and...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
was witnessing the inaugural flight of Blink, a European air-taxi service they had first conceived of while students at the School. The scene didn’t offer much drama — just another small plane taking off from the thousands of regional...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples include MicroEnsure, which has made...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
succeeded. BandPage, which began as a Facebook app to help musicians build professional-looking pages and convert fan "likes" into revenue, has become a major hub in the online music network. BandPage has deals with upstream and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and...
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
expansion, and intrinsic business characteristics. The Indian models are all focused factories, but one is a hub and spoke model, with a hospital hub and ambulatory spokes, while the other offers only...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
1980s, the city had become increasingly reliant on a successful but also volatile financial service industry. In 2006, Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, began to lay the groundwork to establish Charlotte as the "new energy View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
to realize its potential as a fintech hub is a blueprint—offering concrete lessons about how cities can build their own entrepreneurial ecosystem from scratch. On paper, New York City should have dominated fintech from day one. It has a...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
innovations and entrepreneurs in health services to spring up. But we don't. I have an acquaintance, Garrison Bliss, who is a Harvard Medical School doctor, and his brother-in-law is Norman Wu, a software guy who went to the MBA program....
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- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Only difference: Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest...
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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Private Equity and Industry Performance Authors:Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract The growth of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
the Arctic. There are multibillion-dollar mineral reserves — copper, zinc, gold, diamonds, lead — as well. Most people don’t know that FedEx and UPS have very large hubs in Alaska and that most of the world’s international air cargo now...
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build out a portfolio of HBX offerings for individual and corporate learners.See press release Wall of Recognition of Service to Country A new installation honors HBS community members, including students in the Armed Forces Alumni...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an address at the hub of the...
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Susan Young
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Cornell Tech, Initiative 31 was established to: Make New York City the global hub of urban innovation. As part of her Independent Project, Zoe collaborated with the NYCEDC team to design a research-backed roadmap incorporating all...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
economy, and their influence keeps growing. In 2017, for instance, America’s ten largest tech hubs accounted for 58% of U.S. patents. Globally, cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Seoul produced a similar proportion. The...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
Episcopalian or Presbyterian) men from the industrialized centers of the Northeast had the greatest advantages and opportunities for reaching the pinnacle of success in business in the early decades of the twentieth century. Being the "right" type of person...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
NH, was keen to establish a hospital in the western hemisphere and believed that it was important to demonstrate the model to the U.S. Thus, when the Cayman Islands' government was interested in developing the island as a medical tourism View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
children feeling every skinned knee and caring so much about their well-being. Our family found our way through it. I believe it is important to talk about these things. Back to top H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933) Posthumous award HBS Distinguished View Details