Filter Results
:
(1,068)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,068)
- People (4)
- News (351)
- Research (570)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (129)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,068)
- People (4)
- News (351)
- Research (570)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (129)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. They describe new research revealing that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models and that commercials can enhance the...
View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
South Africa—are seeing the gap and saying, Why don’t I go improve my skill set and maybe in the long term I could go back.” The desire to improve his own skill set was what motivated Igun to apply to HBS. Before coming to Boston, he had a lot of View Details
Keywords:
Constantine von Hoffman
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research Event
Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference
Initiative's Creating Emerging Markets project, in which business leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America discuss their experiences growing businesses amid the opportunities and uncertainties of developing markets throughout recent...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
"China's democracy and free-market economy will require people with a solid understanding of capital markets, advanced management skills, and experience in global competition," she says. After developing her...
View Details
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
have a better understanding of how both commercial and non-profit organizations can contribute to improving not only society but also the economy as a whole. According to the SEI, the nonprofit sector comprises 7 percent of U.S. gross...
View Details
Keywords:
by Manda Salls
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), because "most practitioners have taken the concept of one-to-one marketing and bastardized it into CRM. They're using CRM tools to design better...
View Details
Keywords:
by Jean Ayers
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
running lab experiments is that we can simulate many different types of inequality and look at many different types of decisions.” "You'd think that with such a large change in our society, you'd see a definitive impact...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- Web
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC) - Course Catalog
economy. From understanding the creation of carbon markets and credits to exploring the potential for innovative solutions in agriculture and food production or battery manufacturing and the creation of circular economy business models...
View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
economies is so high. There are all kinds of opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop markets in the private sector. According to some estimates, about half of U.S. GDP is due to business done by intermediaries in the private sector....
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- Profile
John Oxtoby
small-business owners to Fortune 500 CEOs to make sure their ideas and voices were heard." Turning best policy ideas into reality Although John had “an amazing experience in government,” he wanted to “complement my public-sector work...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas...
View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Real Estate
isn't dead. Despite the current challenges in the real estate sector, there will be tremendous buying opportunities The economy will experience deflation first, followed by inflation. Read the in-depth...
View Details
- Profile
Spencer Copeland
your section contributed to your understanding of business concepts, leadership, and/or problem solving? The diversity within the classroom is what makes HBS so special. The diversity especially shines in our Business, Government, and the International View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
students will be our future leaders. I would like to increase the number of cases on Japanese companies so that they really understand Japan,” explains Sato. Drawing on his experience as a partner in an executive search firm, Sato...
View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
social and environmental issues? NGOs have become an important element of the global economy and firms should expect to interact with them.—Debora Spar Spar: Again, it really depends on the firm, the business, and the activist groups...
View Details
Keywords:
by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
resources and the management of technology, while a Deutsche Bank case covers universal banking. "We wanted to develop a framework for students that would help them understand the rest of their HBS experience," says Koehn, a prize-winning teacher whose own first book,...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
economy section. Intoxication was listed as the most common incident type at 31.75 percent, belligerent behavior came next at 29 percent, and noncompliance with crew instructions ranked third at 18.67 percent. First-class incidents were...
View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived...
View Details
Keywords:
by John Quelch
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
congressional committees truly bring home the bacon to their states in the forms of earmark spending. Can you give a sense of how large this effect is? A: Sure. The average state experiences a 40 to 50 percent increase in earmark spending...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
even a small probability of enforcement, many foreign insiders will respect the law. But the prospect of a reputational asset may be an even stronger incentive for producing law-abiding behavior. My study has shown through a carefully controlled natural View Details
Keywords:
by Ann Cullen