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- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
What can we do to make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful? Should their objectives be scaled back to just one or two? Should they be disengaged from the determination of compensation and, if so, how? Are We Ready for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
mathematics or to teach non-English speakers how to read English in third grade, or how to better inhibit suicidal patients from taking their own lives,” he notes. Offensend is currently focused on increasing the organization’s visibility and capacity. “If we don’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world wars have been able to stop.... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
obtain a master's degree from the Michigan Technological University. Thirty-two years later, a young Indian in Bangalore, Saumil Majmudar, started a small company. Those two events are connected by a trail of knowledge accumulation and... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50718 March 2016 Harvard Business Review Start-Ups That Last: How to Scale Your Business By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Alicia DeSantola Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
activity. We examine the responses of U.S.-based MNEs and domestic industrial production to a set of IPR reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. Following reform, MNEs expand the scale of their activities. MNEs that make extensive use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
constantly changing environment, companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. The authors provide leaders with a new playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent for today’s agile, digital, analytical, View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of external funders who require MNC participation to ensure value maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
is the vast majority of the $9 trillion per year needed to meet Net Zero commitments.” Current McKinsey Senior Partner Daniel Stephens agreed that the price tag is huge, but wrote: “The big challenge is allocation and delivery, not the total bill.” He added: “The View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
courage to finally do so myself. The Social Enterprise Fellowship has provided tremendous resources that have allowed me to improve the program and guided me toward the longer term thinking that is necessary to scale and continue the... View Details
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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
that is dwarfed by the museum's immense airy inte-rior, or experiencing the overwhelming scale of the Met's grand entryway. Not surprisingly, maintaining these enormous older structures can be a challenge, particularly when taking into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
more traditional careers. The cast of more than one hundred actors, singers, dancers, and musicians found plenty of material in the technology and Internet revolution, with songs such as "La Vida Nokia" and "The Heat Is in Dot-Com."... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Japan after World War II. Trade surpluses with the United States played a major role in propelling growth. But there were two key differences. First, the scale of Chinese currency intervention was without precedent, as were the resulting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Abstract—In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malco.pdf 2006 pub... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino