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- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
founded an open platform called SOFWERX to speed the rate of ideas to Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, and the like. His team even sourced the idea for a hoverboard from a YouTube video. But how should...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
Business School Case 515-001 Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product-made entirely from muscle grown in his lab-to give it the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
Academy: Getting in the Game Harvard Business School Case 807-122 Urban Video Game Academy was founded to enhance the academic and career prospects of urban youth. How will its founder grow it into a sustainable business? Provides an...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse of the cod fishing industry as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207092 Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game? Harvard Business School Case 707-501 In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic choices would give it...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
would have otherwise been undertaken at home. These two tempting claims are found to have limited, if any, systematic support. Instead, modern welfare norms that capture the nature of multinational firm activity recommend a move toward...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
been systematically implemented and evaluated. This article describes early time-driven activity-based costing work at several leading healthcare organizations in the United States and Europe. It identifies the opportunities they found to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-090_9901a957-a740-47b2-abce-4f93070d21fe.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-432 Emirates Airline: Connecting the Unconnected Narrates the story of Emirates, an airline View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
setting or a more general oligopoly context. Most past research has found two-part tariffs to be optimal in many settings. More recent research has begun to investigate the limits of such optimality and when a more general pricing scheme...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Schumpeter strays in Business Cycles onto whatever tangents interest him. Today, research efforts comparable to what Schumpeter was trying to do often employ teams of half a dozen statisticians, economists, and other social scientists....
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- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-047 RegionFly: Cutting Costs in the Airline Industry RegionFly is a small, private airline specializing in ultra-premium services. Founded shortly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608170 Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-057 Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
influence, intermittent social influence, or no social influence. Groups in the intermittent social-influence treatment found the optimum solution frequently (like groups without influence) but had a high mean performance (like groups...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
study that married their shared interests in healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurship. Rock Health supported health-tech entrepreneurs with a startup grant of $20,000, office space, and a wide variety of professional support services. Entrepreneurial View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities from general to functional managers-a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
leaders, the authors found that introverts can be better in unpredictable, changing environments where workers are proactive about sharing their ideas. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/the-hidden-advantages-of-quiet-bosses/ar/1...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she found may surprise you: Blockbusters are capturing even more of...
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Martha Lagace