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- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
business owners who come to our programs tell us they are finding today's market to be the most fertile ground for innovation that they've ever seen, and they are impatient to build the skills needed to take advantage of the current...
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- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
is a really exciting marketing frontier, fertile with possibilities. It is a rival to paid search, and products like MySpace might conceivably evolve into something even bigger. Google's limitation as an interactive marketing medium today...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 109-017 This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
savings, or fertility behavior in African nations. However we do find weak evidence that AIDS has lead to a slow-down in education gains, as measured by youth literacy, and a rise in poverty, as measured by malnutrition. Download working...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
while the sustainable supply chain network is being set up. Measurement. The last step is setting up a performance measurement system, such as the Balanced Scorecard, to track progress and keep all of the players accountable. Other areas View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the...
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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
enhance both individual and organizational outcomes compared to traditional executive education formats. Action-learning programs also enhance our teaching and research efforts. Building on these results and experiences, we suggest that executive education in general,...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
they're going after do a better job at picking fertile places and understanding which markets can be successfully attacked. Sometimes the entrepreneur can conceive of a compelling market, but in fact can't get there. So there is an...
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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
observing in his own research in India. India is fertile ground for domestic, indigenous entrepreneurs, he said, especially compared to China, because the Indian government is learning to loosen some controls. There are many examples of...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
twenty-first century, and then to tell us what they hope will be the most fertile areas of business research between now and 2020. But we didn't leave it there. Professor Jim Heskett is moderating a similar discussion with HBS Working...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
he can advance a plan to earn revenue from carbon credits allocated under the Kyoto Protocol to China for use of Arcadia's rice, since reduced nitrogen fertilizer use will lower greenhouse gas emissions. The case provides context on the...
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- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
Jon and Lawrence saw this chaotic space as fertile ground for entrepreneurship. But the routes these entrepreneurs chose to take were different. "Killing Craigslist" explores the business Jon and Lawrence built to improve the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
today. Both underwent significant upheaval, and this helped me to become a better investor, manager, and entrepreneur. What makes the United States such fertile ground for entrepreneurs? Can the rest of the world catch up? Sahlman: The...
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by Susan Young
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
asset to the country." Indeed, the war was a watershed for entrepreneurialism. While it was true that the war temporarily stunted the development of small business, it ultimately created a more fertile environment for the...
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by Spencer E. Ante
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
not focused on them. In this paper we argue for greater recognition of repositioning costs, provide a repositioning cost typology, and demonstrate the fertility of this approach with a simple model of inter-firm competitive interaction in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
information and instead message to shareholders and analysts something of opposite sign. The data suggest they may be motivated in part by subsequent personal stock-trading opportunities. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51696 July 2016...
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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
innovation is most often a group effort. Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as prob¬ably the greatest American inventor of the early twentieth century. From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more...
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