Global Order - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

the corporate world to suck people's home and leisure time away from them. Most people are only fooling themselves when they think ordering take out (an unhealthy option, when done too much) or hiring a housecleaner will give them that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

in the clean energy field in Asia in general, and in China specifically-by 2020 China, India, Japan, and South Korea are expected to account for 40 percent of global clean power project investments. The challenge for entrepreneurs is to... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). The Prince wanted Genta to position Monaco as the world’s most digital state—a tall order given that, at the time, a United Nations... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

environmental department. At the end of his term, Coady was appointed to lead the U.S. delegation for the creation and implementation of the Global Environmental Facility, to finance projects in biodiversity, climate change, and food... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 May 2016
News

W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975

McNerney. “The trick was to create a stronger fifth culture that retained some of the original essence of each.” During his tenure, Boeing recaptured the top position in the global aerospace industry as well as in commercial airplanes. It... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Air Transportation; Transportation

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

Web

3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog

million people globally over the next 6 weeks. Business leaders, regulators, and professionals wonder how this magical technology would affect their business models. Workers in both creative and other professional career wonder how it... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

a towing company in Alabama, a medical services business in Saudi Arabia, a publishing company in Greece, a drilling firm in Canada, and a New York-based broadcasting company, to name a few. Hayes's talk on the second day of the Reunion, "A View Details

17 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

the reputation of one of the greatest global brands is sullied by a tragic alligator attack on a small child. The marketer has no greater responsibility than to ensure the safety of the consumer. So why do we not hear more about safety?... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Oct 2021
News

No Time Like the Present

Reunion. Now the subject of an HBS case study himself, Delle still regularly reviews his collection of cases from his days as an MBA in order to glean new insights. He was initially interested in earmarking his support for research and... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

slowdown of wireless technology, and the increasingly bright outlook for venture capital and private equity. Global private equity funding has been on the order of $300 billion since the beginning of 2000,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Mar 2020
News

Can This Man Change the American Diet?

on making vegetables irresistible for people who love eating meat. Julia: One thing that I would say is that when you walk in, it feels different right away. So you walk in and you see the menu of the day and then someone comes up and takes your View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Mar 2003
News

Books

last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project portfolios in order to align them with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

order to do so, they need the help of foreign "investors" that are familiar with the frontier. Of course, these foreign partners will not do all the work. Domestic companies need to provide certain inputs and exert effort.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

devices. That simple step, in Schreck's opinion, "changed the nature of where we're going, I think, with global computing. It depends on what behavior you're asking [people] to change, and what the incentive and benefit is to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Runway, Sentient Jet), and there is a more explicit focus on sustainability (e.g., Stella McCartney). Luxury brands need to consider the increasing global connectedness, particularly the importance of the Chinese market for luxury... View Details