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Deborah A. Farrington
the late 80s, and got yet another crucial push toward her VC career. Immersed in Asia’s then red-hot economy, Farrington learned “the joy of being a principal as opposed to being an agent.” Unlike American investment banks at...
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- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
Asian Americans together. That's usually good for one or two lunches if there's no agenda. The secret of collaboration is that you have a task that you care about together."
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
globalization, which is one of the major challenges Japanese companies face. While globalization is a challenge for all companies in the world, I believe that the issues are quite different for Western companies and Japanese companies. When U.S., European, or Latin...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
market conditions and, indeed, to a company's own strategic decisions. By serving the U.S. market from Japan, Toyota in its early days implicitly considered that market to be on the periphery of its own region. The North American West...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect with their communities and do...
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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
openly discuss and critique a peer's actions.” In working to “close the gap” between East and West, Banthoon appointed two Americans to top-level positions — EVP of HR and EVP of retail business. The idea, admits Banthoon, whom Business...
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- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
start-ups—in every continent. However, the Internet has really been a catalyst for entrepreneurship in many countries, and this trend will last beyond the Internet wave. Entrepreneurship has always played a major role in the U.S., going back to the Carnegie era....
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by Staff
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
attributable to poor decision making by high-affinity syndicates after the investment is made. These results suggest that "birds-of-a-feather-flock-together" effects in collaboration can be costly. December 2014 American...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
"is like any gas that is compressed; it gets hotter." Its tribes overlap socially and professionally based on work discipline (software engineers, for example), organizational affiliation (Hewlett-Packard), or background (Stanford MBAs or South View Details
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
eating, health, and social standing in America have deep roots. As mechanisms of food production, distribution, and storage were developed in the nineteenth century, Americans began receiving information about what to and not-to eat, from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
American and Asian subjects, for instance, the marketing implications may be very different. "Expressions of happiness in some Eastern cultures are expressed as a sense of calm or peace, whereas in some...
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- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the...
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Martha Lagace
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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Culliton, James W., “Writing Business Cases,” in McNair, Malcolm P., ed. , The Case Method at the Harvard Business School: papers by present and past members of the faculty and staff . Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1954. Culliton, James W., Handbook on Case Writing . Makati,...
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- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
representative samples of Americans with private health insurance. The first examines how well Americans understand, and believe they understand, traditional health insurance coverage. The second examines...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
music and K-drama television shows in Asian countries, Chairman Jay Lee, of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, believed that the time was ripe for taking Korean cultural content to the West. One initiative, carried out by the Group's...
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Sean Silverthorne