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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
bureaucratic and political constraints imposed on scholars by the government that seem to work against intellectual progress. Q: What does a Chinese entrepreneur need to succeed today, and is it different from what someone launching a business in the View Details
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by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
goals has different effects on performance. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of 23 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in a structured, quality-improvement program. We test the relationship between collaboration within the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
David Moss was asked to consider "what role the federal government should play, if any, in indemnifying terrorism-related risks." Moss, whose new book, When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, traces the history of federal and View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cuts back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to the trio's working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" The...
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Richard Lou
units and establishing a hotel-development arm. "I became the middleman between my family and key business players, like the bankers and franchisors," says Richard. Part of his job was to translate for his family, but with his...
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- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
decipher what kind of company they are buying into. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is an NGO established in 2011 with designs on cutting through that noise. Much the way the Financial Accounting Standards Board has systematized accounting...
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Re: George Serafeim
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
the competitive landscape of platforms, Zhu delved into data from Amazon.com, which serves both as the biggest online retailer in the United States and as a platform on which third-party retailers can sell...
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- 25 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?
stories, not one that was perfectly planned. While at Harvard College, I explored several careers in health care and clinical research. During this time, the United States was going through a historical...
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- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the United View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
business model, and the transition from a world in which throwing CO2 up the chimney was free to one in which throwing away CO2 is a costly activity. This won't be easy, but it will be easier than we expect. Between 1942 and 1944, for example, the View Details
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- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
certain threshold . . . the state should move to minimize its involvement." Gaurav Goel opined, "I think Galbraith will be more relevant in the first half of this century. . . . For markets to act in coherence with society, it...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of US Competitiveness in 2016, which...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
Patricia Will (MBA 1980) is cofounder and president of Belmont Village Senior Living, which operates 25 retirement communities in the southwestern and midwestern United States. In this video, she talks about how she came to found a...
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- 09 Feb 2011
- News
Still Shining through Florida's Clouds
the United Way. “I’m a Christian,” says Lucas, “and the Bible teaches us that we are to love our neighbor. One way to do that is to help your neighbor when he is in need.” Recalling his days at HBS, Lucas says a principal lesson learned...
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Real Estate
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
I saw in studying winning streaks and losing streaks in sports as well as businesses and nations, it’s easy to appear united when your team is winning. Divisiveness tends to characterize losing streaks, in which people try to hold on to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
much more advanced Down Under than Up Top in the United States, and that’s the inspiration behind Barrow’s apparel company, Coolibar (www.coolibar.com). While ordinary clothing does offer a modicum of protection, “Coolibar’s clothing is...
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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
as a glamorous thing. You were dealing with multinational companies coming from the United Kingdom and the United States, so it became much more of an elitist culture. Q: What was the economic scene like for...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market,...
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- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
cases that makes them so enduring?" Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese university wrestling team,...
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by Garry Emmons