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a free market economy and the reduction of federal deficits. To honor Humphrey, the George M. Humphrey Fellowship was established at the School to support an MBA student. Greenhill House was rededicated in... View Details

11 Oct 2013
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Shedding Light on the Shutdown

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

measures of local business activity, such as prices and user ratings, provide a new way of studying the economy. This data can provide indicators that gentrification is occurring, forecast an increase in housing prices, and shed new light... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Jun 2009
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What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

differential between past and projected growth rates. One can argue that each transaction may have produced top line growth for individual companies and tax revenues for the government, but did it create as much value for the individual citizen and the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

bill, an increasing number of young Greeks are leaving the country causing perhaps the most damaging effect of them all, brain drain. One of the most robust academic evidence is that an View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

your company’s competitive advantage. We live in an ever changing world and in order to keep up and become successful, continuous education is a must-do. Ozgur Taskaya User Acquisition Manager at Adcash Make stronger strategic... View Details

25 May 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

autonomy includes the right to relinquish it.” Consumer empowerment is perhaps more evident in the United States than other developed economies served by single-payer national health systems. In the United States, most citizens see each... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

years The greatest COVID-19 failure was clearly the failure to adapt in time to an emerging threat.” Bill Wallace said, “I’m calling the COVID-19 pandemic a White Swan: inevitable through global mobility and the absence of safeguards,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2014
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Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much of it critical, about the political, social, and economic... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

February 1991 (Revised March 1993)
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USSR--1990, Supplement

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Provides an update of key social, political, and economic outcomes in the Soviet Union over the period April 1990 to February 1991. View Details

Keywords: Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Economy; Transition; Soviet Union

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09 Jan 2020
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Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

a traditional business—the gym—into an $8 billion digital offering that pulled in more than $700 million in revenue during the last fiscal year. Foley credits the magic of today’s technology, including software, data, and communication... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

research and an array of programs and activities. Read more about Preparing Global Leaders The Initiative has expanded HBS’s intellectual footprint over the years with the creation of 10 global centers and eight regional offices,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Feb 2018
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Trump seems to have insulated himself from #MeToo movement

11 Dec 2017
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As the Fed Deliberates, Amazon Is Making Its Job More Difficult

02 May 2014
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Does Unusual Weather Cause More Crime?

16 Feb 2017
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Trump & Business

21 Aug 2020
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Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

that we are pursuing. In my first year, we went to New York to meet with industry professionals. After meeting the CEO of HBO, I was surprised at how much of the cohort was interested in the entertainment and media industry, a space of great interest to me as well. We... View Details

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Our Curriculum - Business History

government in the country’s economy are investigated as well. In addition, the course examines the relation between capital market innovation and economic development and surveys the long-term impact of entrepreneurship, technological... View Details

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