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- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning View Details
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by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
Monday morning. Eight managers, handpicked by their superiors, face one another in the middle of a room. Seated in a semicircle behind them is the company's top management team. As the members of the inner circle report what they have View Details
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by Judith A. Ross
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
gym, Cohen is a record-breaking amateur powerlifter, able to squat more than 600 pounds. Here’s a transcript of the discussion: Question: What is the next big thing in finance? Lauren Cohen: The next big thing in finance is fintech, which...
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- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
doses to other countries.” Preparing for the next pandemic Kominers believes the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic will leave countries better prepared in the future—“so we build the capacity View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
such as the new iWatch, and I'm offered a service that will alert my doctor of any health abnormalities via the device , I'm going to agree to that. My health will win out over privacy in that case." We...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
huge loss of capital. And, in fact, a lot of knowledge was lost in that transition. Many people had to figure out new things, had to learn how to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
suggest that the European consumer's thirst for medical knowledge is greater than even what is seen in the U.S. "As a marketer, I want an informed patient," he said. Maisonrouge urged students to look for opportunities with...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
actually have a lot to learn from one another, rather than setting one country's management practices up as a standard to which others should conform—or else they do not...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
professor Wasserman to learn more about his research.New Business: Tell us about your research. Noam Wasserman: My research focuses on founder frustrations in entrepreneurial firms, with a particular...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
practitioners and academicians alike. As I started doing further studies with countries and states, the cluster component became a significant stream in my research. In this new chapter, I try to draw together almost a decade of further...
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Re: Michael E. Porter
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
really happens when organizations employ the concept. Now we learn that the Army is experimenting with satellite-driven information technology that enables a tank commander to have a full view of the...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
parents, students, and teachers are all invested in the company/school's success. Individualizing education, most likely via technology, is another important trend, said Fishman, pointing to research on the great variation in students'...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
1930s, where it was noticed that direct labor costs tended to decrease by a constant percentage as the cumulative quantity of aircraft produced doubled. Learning effects figured prominently in wartime...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
Drugstore.com can capture in a database all of the current test information available on a particular drug, so that a person can learn about any potential side effects. EE: Are there any non-high-tech cases in the DIS course? Nolan: Oh,...
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- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Professor of Business Administration: Don't just mourn Nelson Mandela. Learn to be Nelson Mandela. He was the consummate turnaround leader. As the first democratically-elected president of post-apartheid...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a couple of years View Details
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by Mallory Stark
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
"We're waiting for the cycle to return." Is it possible VCs didn't learn anything from the dot-com bubble and subsequent crash? Marc Fogassa, a principal at Axiom Venture Partners, said, "The...
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
Markt in 1997 (a creation of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, or Deutsche Börse), there is a new and receptive home for initial public offerings. To learn the practitioner's point of view, Lerner assembled a...
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- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and...
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