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- 24 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad
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by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
- 24 May 2014
- News
Analysts’ dim view of CSR brightens over time
Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex interdependencies of globalized supply chains. While these global multistage production networks had spread during a relatively benign environment of falling trade barriers and increasing interdependencies among... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of...
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Erin Peterson
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
luxury of long breaks between jobs or extended periods of time to think about their transition before they step into the next thing. Additionally, as Bridges points out, we often don’t see when we are in a...
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) I cheated on the mile run in junior high gym class. I was a chubby girl who spent every moment of free time...
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Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- October 2015 (Revised August 2019)
- Background Note
Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times
By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby and Yuanzhuo Wang
The rapid growth in quantity and quality of universities in China since 1978 is the most recent evolution in a long history of higher education. From as early as the Tang Dynasty, academies existed to prepare scholars for the civil service examination, but by the...
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Non-profit Management;
University Administration;
University Faculty;
University Curriculum;
Education Reform;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Management;
Higher Education;
History;
Governance;
Education Industry;
China
Kirby, William C., Joycelyn W. Eby, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-066, October 2015. (Revised August 2019.)
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Healthy (and Unhealthy) Coping Strategies for Anxious Times
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
Developing skill as an effective acquirer is an important muscle for scaling companies and now is a great time to test out that skill. 6. Consider financing There is a ton of View Details
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by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 22 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 05 Oct 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Negotiating the Impossible: Break Deadlocks and Resolve Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)
Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. To top it off, you have little power or other resources with...
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- 02 Feb 2013
- News
Finance as an Analytical Partner to the Business
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
take away a valuable tool — a computer. They will be on par with fellow students who have a computer at home." Since the project's launch last October, more than a dozen HBSAAA volunteers have dedicated several hours every other Saturday to serve View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Taylor Swift and the Economics of Music as a Service
- 2017
- Book
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
By: Nancy F. Koehn
An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of readers—including those in government, business, education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer...
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Koehn, Nancy F. Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. New York: Scribner, 2017.
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
thoughtfully and purposefully. Every founder should read it—and take the time to digest its rich data and lessons." In this excerpt from Chapter 9, Wasserman discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a common but risky practice...
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by Noam Wasserman
- January 2021
- Article
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
By: Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information...
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Decentralization;
Growth;
Turbulence;
Great Recession;
Organizational Design;
System Shocks;
Economic Growth;
Performance
Aghion, Philippe, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13, no. 1 (January 2021): 133–169.
- 27 Oct 2008
- News
Economic crisis hits as Brazil builds
- September 2021
- Article
Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Ruo Mo, Adam Eric Greenberg, Bertus Jeronimus and Ashley V. Whillans
There is widespread consensus that income and subjective well-being are linked, but when and why they are connected is subject to ongoing debate. We draw on prior research that distinguishes between the frequency and intensity of happiness to suggest that higher income...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., Ruo Mo, Adam Eric Greenberg, Bertus Jeronimus, and Ashley V. Whillans. "Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness." Social Psychological & Personality Science 12, no. 7 (September 2021): 1294–1306.
- 14 Aug 2014
- News