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- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
investing, mostly through term debt. Debt capacity expansion led to firm growth, with profits increasing by 35 percent annually. Growth is even larger for firms further away from debt limits. Delinquency or debt restructuring rates didn’t View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Everest. Vescovo had reached that summit on his second try in 2010. The battered ice axe he had relied on during the climb was now secured within the the submersible’s body. It reminded him of the intense physical strain of those days on... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
startups that found further success in the market—are rare, and mainly involve companies purchased for their intellectual property. Lessons for universities The study’s findings are significant as university research expenditures climb to... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
wrestling with profound feelings of loss as they climbed the ranks. A scope for sanity Despite evidence of universal misery, none of the companies—largely professional services firms—that Ely has observed in her career have shifted the... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article, Climbing Down from the Ivory... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
period when overall GDP grew by only 5 percent. "Through the years of the 'Great Recession' and the very slow climb back, the businesses that live on the Internet have been a conspicuous exception to the general pattern of... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind
built near this location to convert wind energy into green hydrogen. Photo source: Prof. Willy Shih Next on our tour, we climbed inside the nacelle of a wind turbine. The nacelle sits at the top of a turbine tower and houses the generator... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
between themselves and problematic companies, until they are ready to once again climb the corporate ladder with a cleaner record. Groysberg, Lin, Serafeim, and Robin Abrahams elaborated on “bouncing back” strategies in their September... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
shortened to thirty-five hours. What has happened? Take France, for example. French productivity is up; some would claim it is now higher than the U.S., just as is productivity in The Netherlands, Belgium, and the former West Germany. For example, Volkswagen's market... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
generator. We were also able to climb the inner staircase to reach the roof of the nacelle for a view of the helipad used for operations, maintenance, and servicing. The sheer scale and complexity of the manufacturing process left us in... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US health care... View Details
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
the traditional path is to succeed in school, find an entry-level job at a reputable company and then climb the corporate ladder by working long, grueling hours. The job is a lifetime commitment and your success is tied inextricably to... View Details
- Web
Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
often-overlooked role of Black women in the social, political, psychological, and economic history of the United States, A Blessing offers a playbook for Black teams to find innovative ways to support one another as they climb the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
concrete roadmap towards brand building that will give you an unmatched strategic advantage. The Way Up: Climbing the Corporate Mountain as a Professional of Color By Errol L. Pierre (AMP 203, 2022) and Jim Jermanok Wiley In The Way Up:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
first stay-at-home order. COVID-19 fears were keeping diners home. Restaurant visits spiked immediately when states allowed restaurants to offer in-person dining again. However, restaurant activity remained lower than pre-COVID levels. Restaurant demand after lockdowns... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
jump over, and A-frames to climb up and down. Did you see Best in Show, the “mockumentary” about dog shows? Yes, I thought it was hilarious. Some of it was more accurate than I'd like to admit. People take the sport very seriously, but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
or $500 million in capital, they're simply not interested in funding companies that need $10 million or less to develop real market traction." According to Dodi, the growing number of companies with women in leadership positions is the result of 25 years of women View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
were really losing their share for software patents compared to non-software inventions,” Kerr says. The ripple effects of invention Tech clusters, it turns out, are also important for non-software related patents, with those areas of invention View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne