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29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

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

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

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

Wruck cites one case she followed in which the initial match looked great. The target and bidder had operations in the same industry, creating a potential for synergies. But integration of the target into the acquiring firm and its... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio, with 28,000 employees worldwide.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

leading global player in the baking industry, expands into China while at the same time undertaking initiatives to make its U.S. and South American operations more profitable. Allows students to analyze the company's entire global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

Kathleen McGinn, senior associate dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting. A key goal of the program is to increase the amount and depth of research conducted at HBS on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We hope to attract to this... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

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

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

using the electrical power and illumination generated from 22,000 temporary light poles, and making their religious commitments as they bathed in the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers over the course of the day, many beginning in the darkness before dawn. From a View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

effectively, fulfilling those responsibilities, in a complex situation. Decisions facing the company include how to sustain credible research on the drug's efficacy and safety, how to increase manufacturing capacity to meet expected... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

highlight why promoting entrepreneurship globally has become an important policy agenda. From the perspective of entrepreneurs and investors, however, little research has been devoted to providing insights into how to successfully... View Details

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

The Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) invested over $4 billion in 332 institutions, with more than 68 percent increasing their small business lending by 10 percent or more. The federal government also partnered with state governments through the State Small Business... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

to 2 million people by 2020. Is this private model needed at all? Why can't cities take the time to grow organically, like London or Jakarta? Here's why I believe we need to go faster and better, with seven steps toward how. My research... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

run? “It's a question of who will make money and which business models are effective” "There's a huge opportunity to make money here," Henderson, codirector of the Business & Environment Initiative at HBS, told students who... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

18 Jan 2022
News

HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

had a meeting last winter, and the mentorship program was born. The college manages student selection and registration, Mallory manages the mentoring process, and Comer serves as the liaison between the college and the program. Both Mallory and Comer are mentors as... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

parks his Fiesta next to the independent venture capitalists' Ferraris, the temptation to go elsewhere becomes too great." In other words, companies who create internal venture teams to fuel their research and development must not... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

that people make in their everyday lives—from choosing yogurts to choosing religions to choosing spouses—research in judgment and decision making has taken many forms. We suggest, however, that much of this research has been conducted... View Details