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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
the proprietary Mac as the central hub of Apple's product line despite falling market share. Eventually he was persuaded to shift focus and allow the iTunes music platform to be used on PCs as well as on Apple iPods and iPhones. That...
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Social Innovation
My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
together, and across most of the country,” Greenstein says. Forces at work Two distinct and competing forces changed IT wages starting around the year 2000, Cao and Greenstein found. “On the one hand, the advantage of tech hubs and urban...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
Transporting "containerized cargo" seemed to be a natural, cost-effective extension of his business. McLean initially envisioned his trucking fleet as an integral part of an extended transportation network. Instead of truckers traversing the eastern...
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- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
and Trademark Office—when nonstop flights increase by 10 percent. The firms that benefitted most from nonstop flights tended to be bigger innovators overall, with more inventor stock and higher R&D spending. Many of these companies were also located within 50 miles...
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- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
restructuring from those technologies, and that affects many parts of the country, especially the hubs for US transportation, such as Denver, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas. It’s also no secret that we are partly through the...
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by Sean Silverthorne;
Transportation;
Telecommunications;
Shipping;
Publishing;
Technology
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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
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Commodities;
Coffee;
Mexico;
Foreign Investment;
Institutions;
Immigration;
Developing Agriculture;
Development;
Export Crop;
Emerging Market;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
History;
Capital Markets;
Business History;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
the growth of the tech centers was actually coming from the big population centers.” The rise of tech hubs What’s more, that growth isn’t stoked by long-standing companies shifting locations, like IBM did, but rather by new businesses...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53200 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age of Digital Superpowers By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R....
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
markets grow as the number of people who are on the network grow, same as we saw on the phones. As they get bigger, many more people will come to them because that's where you go. "Now we see that the Internet land grab is really important when it comes to B2B...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
identity framework that incorporates reputation. Findings-The Nobel Prize is a "true" corporate heritage brand (in this case, organizational brand). It is the hub of a linked network of brands-"a federated republic."...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
context of the current fund of hedge funds industry, the case considers challenges and opportunities for these potential new areas for growth. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/213129-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-030# View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
Greyser cites the early days of Airbus, which began as a consortium of independent European aviation firms, to build planes together using the Airbus brand as a hub—and to compete with Boeing, Lockheed, and the like. "Airbus was a hub...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
Nebraska, received barely a breeze of interest from wind entrepreneurs. Yes, Denmark, a hub of innovation in the turbine business, has plenty of wind, but neighboring Sweden and Great Britain, equally windy, showed little interest in the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
strategy? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-057 Milwaukee (A): Making of a World Water Hub Starting in 2007 Milwaukee leaders from different areas (large established companies, civic...
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Anna Secino
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
tension surrounding the case is the choice to move from the hub of commerce in central London to a relatively obscure site whose owners (Olympia & York) have a history of financial bankruptcy. What business elements (clients,...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
recording studio for the band; a backup device for your photos; a TiVo-like recorder and digital entertainment hub for the living room. Despite the buzz, Apple faced a familiar marketing challenge. Most people use Windows-based PCs, and...
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by Youngme Moon
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
fashion Ramo describes his association with pioneering network designers and malevolent hackers alike. He also concentrates on the vulnerability of networks, especially those fueled by the Internet. First, there is the possibility that an important node--a View Details
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by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Britain’s perceived glory days in the nineteenth century, when the country was the economic hub of the world. The Governor of the Bank of England, a legion of economists, and scores of other experts have pointed to the economic risks,...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini