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- 16 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
entrepreneurship in a new light. It is the mark of an extraordinary entrepreneur, the originator of any breakthrough idea, to see beyond his or her own personal "ownership" of the concept and let the solution to a problem take precedence—in this case, View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to...
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by Rachel Layne
- 06 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams
were the only people who understood what was really going on because nobody else had access to both sides.” The gap in communication was particularly acute after the teams ended the meeting, on what the researchers refer to as the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence that the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2024
- In Practice
Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year
improve efficiency to using AI as a driver of strategic differentiation. Here are five shifts 2024 may bring: Broadening access to computing. Generative AI will become further integrated in the software we already use, allowing a broader...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
are covered, but that still left scores, maybe hundreds of individual leaders who could not be included due to space constraints. Q: Are aspects of U.S. business history missing from your book? A: There are inevitably holes and gaps. In...
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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
product. Having target customers use a competitive product for a week or two can also be insightful. Expert testing. You may be working in an area where you are no expert, but you have a hunch it’s a white space ripe for disruption. If...
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by Julia Austin
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
A new study of startups sharing a coworking space offers a new wrinkle in the debate over work-from-anywhere: Proximity matters, especially close proximity, to spread knowledge between disparate enterprises. “The more different the...
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by Ben Rand
- 19 Sep 2023
- HBS Case
How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?
Microsoft also deserves a lot of credit for making a decision to work with OpenAI and getting access to leading technology that they can integrate both into their applications and as a way to sell cloud computing services. But what's...
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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Making Dental Care Accessible to All in Brazil No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316149-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-062 HBS in 2016 The case explores opportunities and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had greater effects than two alternative treatments (offering girls a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
candidates. Such actions are not without consequences. The Challenger space shuttle explosion, steroid use in major league baseball, and the financial crash are all results of unethical decision-making, even though the participants at the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge
can do and build additional capacity, the organization must create the space for the leader to gain clarity about conscious and unconscious beliefs they hold. An understanding of those beliefs and how they inform actions is critical to...
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by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
wrought with misinformation. The leader in this space was the website Craigslist, which was the most highly trafficked classifieds site in the world and the tenth most visited site in the United States despite introducing almost no...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
James W. Riley has been confronted with questions of identity and alienation since he was a teenage graffiti artist navigating 1990s Los Angeles. “I’ve always had this notion of going places and being in spaces that maybe subtly said,...
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
selective disclosure, constrained the use of direct access to senior management. We find a large effect: pre-Reg FD the return premium from school ties was 9.36% per year, while post-Reg FD the return premium was nearly zero and...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
operating systems like Apple, Microsoft, Symbian, and Palm derive their profits from users through licensing fees and do not charge much to allow application developers to access their platforms. On the contrary, videogame console makers...
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- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
transfer them to new owners. "It's unlikely that other networks would return their space for free—why would they?" says Edelman. "But if the price is right, they may be willing to transfer the View Details