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17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

from the developed to the developing country and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. Consistent with the model, we observe that the flow of technologies from N to S... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2012
First Look

Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Apr 1998
News

Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

Three conferences sponsored by student organizations at HBS in January brought together alumni, students, and experts from business, government, and academia to discuss a wide range of topical issues. Summaries of those conferences... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

12,000 miles; just a few years later it was up to every 20,000 miles -- unless you had a set of new Michelin or Bridgestone radial tires, imported from France or Japan, respectively, which lasted for 40,000... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Ink: Talking Shop

medical technology business from a spiritual retreat center in Florida. —Jinny Uppal (PLDA 9, 2012) Favorite? Not sure I have an answer on that but I’m nearly done with The Codebreakers and just finished... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

regulations to keep up with financial innovation, spurred by technology and globalization of markets, explains Moss. Over time, a huge amount of financial activity migrated away from regulated and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2015
News

Leading Boston and Beyond

From left: Chris Osgood, Dan Koh, Lauren Lockwood It is 2:30 p.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, and the halls of Boston City Hall are eerily quiet. Dan Koh (MBA 2011), Chris Osgood (MBA 2006), Lauren Lockwood (MBA 2014), and Austin... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

12 Nov 2019
News

Seismic Shift

can come together, honor each other’s successes, learn from other executives who are shaping new paths, and make connections to improve the advancement of women and people of color. But the most important... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Schankerman examine the ways in which software differs from other technologies in promoting economic development, what motivates individuals and firms to contribute to open source projects, how developers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Steel Corporation, 1950. Douglas A. Fisher. Steel Making in America. New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1949. Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences: Body Harvard Business School (HBS) had actively sought out photographs... View Details

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

generations of oil." David Hirsch seconds this notion, saying, "There is nothing our technology (including revisiting our ‘revulsion toward nuclear power') cannot achieve." There is a great deal of support as well for the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series

range widely and can be categorized into some overarching themes. Examples include crisis awareness and management, with the provision of shelter and medical attention for hundreds of river communities displaced by increased floods in Bangladesh. Another theme relates... View Details

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

behavior? What do you think? Original Article We've supposed for a long time that certain behaviors foster relationships that can determine success or failure. Now improved technologies (such as brain imaging) combined with imaginative... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to consider as they approach world markets. Levitt's key insight... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

consumers and shopping habits in the next few years. Real Estate, a Love Story: Wisdom, Honor, and Beauty in the Toughest Business in the World By Joshua Benaim (MBA 2006) Disruption Books With this book, a blend of memoir and strategy, Joshua Benaim takes readers on a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of the chain are customers trapped in high-pressure negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

research to help address. EPA senior attorney-advisor Jon Silberman says he attended with potential research questions related to the agency’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, which aims to take advantage of new tools and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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