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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues in this Q&A that the current...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
transparently available to the car owner, we also rely heavily on insurance as a product. We today work with some of the largest insurance companies in the country to be able to ensure that every car user is able to pay only for the time...
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- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47651 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Where to Launch in Africa? By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—A case study in the management of new business enterprises in developing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind...
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- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
business schools developed at best a love-hate relationship with the rankings. Those that moved up from obscurity tended to like them. Perennial leaders like HBS and Wharton regarded them as meaningless “beauty contests” and stopped...
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- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
quality across the country and across many independent franchisees, and being willing to respond to changing consumer tastes. One Shaich-schooled leader, John Maguire (AMP 180, 2011), left Panera in 2012 to take on the challenge of...
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- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
usual methodology of studying organizations in a particular industry or geography, Zhang went wide and deep. He developed a longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Auto worker creates stripe guns - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
cars. He has developed at least 25 different types of “guns,” including models that paint three different colored stripes at the same time. Explore the full size image Auto worker creates stripe guns , ca....
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Several student relief efforts sprang up in the wake of February’s earthquake in Haiti. Partners In Health, which has been working in the country for over twenty years, was the beneficiary of choice for many of the first-year section...
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- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
shareholders) and treat them well; don’t worry about gurus ... ." While big ideas may have originated, according to at least one study, primarily from the U.S. in recent decades, what does this mean for future competitive advantage...
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by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Jen Lee
I need to get from point A to point B, I'd rather jog. I want to create momentum—to advance, develop and progress not only myself personally but especially those around me. And in my desire to never stop moving, I hope to live an active...
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Nathalie du Preez
For Nathalie du Preez, passion for her country has also been the driving force behind leaving it — at least temporarily. "I love South Africa," she says, "but as a legacy of apartheid, it's...
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- Fast Answer
Africa: research, news, analysis
lifestyles and the name of country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging market...
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- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
States outperformed the rest of the world in the majority of years. As such, there is something particularly bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful View Details
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by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the fastest-growing major economy within two years, HBS’s presence in this dynamic South Asian View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
investment, most such arguments are founded on hubris rather than on solid advantages or capabilities. Indeed, Norway, the country with the most experience in investing national wealth, has developed an...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
the stuff, it is powdered Nescafé bought from streetside trolleys. Africa remains by and large the last part of the world to resist coffee, with tea and chocolate drinks the go-to hot beverages. (Exceptions are in the Francophone View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
produce a machine based on the recently developed process named xerography. Invented by the patent lawyer Chester Carlson, xerography involved a process by which images were transferred from one piece of paper to another by means of...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- July 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Gerdau (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower, Luiz Felipe Monteiro and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Gerdau Group is a family-controlled Brazilian manufacturer and distributor of long steel products. Describes the evolution of the company's strategy, organization, and smart management, making it the No. 2 steel producer in Brazil. The company must decide whether to...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Family Business;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Globalization;
Competitive Strategy;
Steel Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Brazil;
United States
Bower, Joseph L., Luiz Felipe Monteiro, and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Gerdau (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-016, July 2001. (Revised February 2004.)