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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
of the planet. Those of us with power and money need to redirect our concerns with that in mind.” “You can’t just shrug your shoulders and say, ‘Africa is a hell of a problem,’ and then forget about it.” During thirty years in View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
loyalty, tradition and internal maintenance, are the monkeys. Organizations frequently show aspects of different cultures, making for dragons. Competitive and entrepreneurial firms consistently perform better than do more bureaucratic and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
to examine the legality of deals such as Bell Atlantic's acquisition of GTE and AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne. The current rash of international antitrust cases—such as those in Europe around MCI-WorldCom's purchase of Sprint and...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
No matter how many brilliant thinkers a company may employ in-house, sometimes the most innovative solution to a problem can be found from seeking answers outside–from the crowd. “Crowds appear to reliably produce cheaper, faster, and better solutions than View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
of economic development that is also taught simultaneously, using Internet-delivered material, in seventeen other universities. Professor Porter also speaks widely on competitive strategy and international competitiveness to business and...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
opportunity to practice their pitches, get feedback from industry leaders, and win financial awards. In addition, the Rock Summer Fellowships provide funding for students to either further their entrepreneurial ideas or to subsidize their salaries if they View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
democracy, and international trade. Scholars and practitioners contributing to initial research efforts include Steve Charnovitz, The George Washington University Law School; Stacey M. Childress (MBA 2000), the Bill & Melinda Gates...
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- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
obviously no PCs. And to see how it was actually changing the way that things were automating. Out of college, I worked for a company called the International Business Machines Corporation --some people know as IBM--and that qualified me...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
that everything is pushing us in this direction - transportation, communications, technology, and the shape of business itself. We need to be close to practice everywhere, not just in places where we're already established. In the past, our View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
people in the organization. Using stories of individual leaders at Volkswagen, Google, eBay, and Pfizer as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation create and sustain...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
financing institutions, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). We find that developing countries serving on the Board of...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Human Resource Management (HRM). Written by an international team of academics from universities in the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand, it examines the problems and opportunities facing employers and employees. The book subdivides...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
lowest law court in the land.” Moore was again in Shanghai; in the five months since his arrival in China, he traveled only as far as Peking, 144 feet above sea level. First, the expedition had been waylaid by the outbreak of war when the Japanese attacked Shanghai. In...
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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
for high school followed by a summer in Spain. By her senior year of high school, the family had moved again, this time to Vancouver, Canada. It was the fourteenth school of her youth. That nomadic spirit instilled in Leger an interest in View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
that normative or preconceived beliefs about the functioning of the social world may guide social behavior in children. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54387 Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Daniela Barone Soares (MBA 1997), Chief executive, Impetus Trust, London, England There are innumerable possible, equally rewarding career paths outside the more "traditional" ones. Success is an internally defined concept: External...
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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark that became the Voice Project. You were volunteering at an...
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- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
everyone’s game. Christopher Stanton uses an experiment with rotating supervisors to study their influence over teams. Related Research Papers Research Paper: Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Leverage the Power of Alumni Networks in Recruiting
example, if your organization is participating in a company presentation, consider sending an alum of the school to help present. Our office will continue to travel to many US and international cities over the coming months and we...
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Bobby Daly
of different people with varied interests and experiences. The large number of international students—about 30 percent of the class—brings a wide range of perspectives to the cases we discuss." Bobby notes that there's a considerable...
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