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- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create an outsourcing strategy given... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
historically lagged behind that of California and Massachusetts despite the presence of numerous drug companies and medical research institutions.) And she is not alone: Endeavor Insight, a nonprofit View Details
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Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) - MBA
was made up of students, faculty members, and administrators who were passionate about this particular topic, and we convened a group of students who were interested in understanding the experience of class at HBS and generating research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
informed decisions using data and make the system more resilient, limiting the consequences of bad decisions.” One such effort is the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, an interdisciplinary research View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
up to a human resource department to carry out all but the final stages of the process. And like board members, research has shown that they rarely ask questions that would enable an understanding of whether or not their interviewee will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to avoid them.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Americans have had on the School, the business world, and society at large. The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has partnered with the AASU and the HBS Leadership Initiative to produce five core View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
but initial indications would suggest that savings bonds might be as attractive to as many savers as on-site funding of an IRA," says Tufano, who plans to return for more on-the-ground testing in early 2007. Not A Perfect Solution... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity By: Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research demonstrates that, under certain circumstances, people wearing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
the first two i-lab alumni unicorns, WHOOP and CarePort Health. The opportunities continue to expand, especially with the landmark Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) building now complete and open and construction on the View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing technical support, veterinary... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
Programs & Executive Education) $ 47 44 43 40 37 Investment in Research IN MILLIONS FY 16 FY 15 FY 14 FY 13 FY 12 $ 131 123 117 110 109 Current use giving—unrestricted and restricted gifts intended to support near-term priorities—has... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
by focusing on bigger films that require a bigger commitment." Jeff Robinov believes in blockbusters and his strategy is to create more of them. The pharmaceutical and entertainment industries are similar. R&D costs in both are high. Results are unpredictable.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
form, as we move from one element to the next. In the end, these four elements coalesce to form a single integrated process—a single source of organizational power. Talking About talk, Inc. When we began the project that led to this book, the focus of our View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Working PapersFacts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China Authors:Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley Abstract Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne