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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
data and enhance the faculty’s understanding of key research topics. The second phase of alumni outreach and involvement began in March 2012 with a series of “Paths Forward” events in New York; Charlotte; Washington, DC; San Francisco;... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Richard G. Hamermesh, senior lecturer and instructor for the course, to discuss the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
outside individual projects. Institutionalizing postmortems on all projects, successful or not, is the only way of generating robust insights on how well an organizational change effort is proceeding. In organizational transformation... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
player in the development of the Valley. Working with Thomas J. Davis, Jr., in the firm Davis & Rock, as well as on his own (as Arthur Rock & Co.), Rock has backed many of the companies that make the Valley what it is today: Teledyne, Scientific View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
problem. Q: You mentioned that the places where health care is delivered are part of the outmoded business model. Could you elaborate? A: You can't make CT scans more affordable by changing the way big hospitals are run. But if you take procedures that once had to be... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
whether there are similar benefits to relatedness at an operating unit level and whether such benefits stem from spillovers between operating activities. Using data from the hospital industry, we first examine the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
the United States; a majority of respondents say race relations are generally bad, while 38 percent say they are generally good. Since May 2016, the share of Americans who say race relations are getting... View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way
cynic in me. I'm part of the fifth generation in my family to work in the diamond industry, and while it's an exciting industry, it is also one of the slowest to adapt and innovate. Working on a way to bring it into the 21st century is... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
this post. That's where you'll soak up the big ideas that will help you start successful companies. But, like everyone says, an MBA from Harvard is more than your time in class. The entrepreneurial community here is so generous with their... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
components from related future technologies for use in their current-technology products. I use patent data to test whether automobile carburetor suppliers with higher levels of future-technology R&D activity are better at adapting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
more product and move to the next level? There are very few places to turn.’ ” The data backed up Kehinde’s experiences: Last year, the International Finance Corporation estimated the credit gap for small businesses in Nigeria to be at... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with the global commodity chain approach that argues that manufacturing/core economies absorb the bulk of surplus View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
Additional information and data gathered from the event is expected to be distributed later this year. "We need a vision that says transportation and infrastructure (are) important, so important that a lot of people have to come to... View Details