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- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
University Professor at Harvard and head of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS. "But business leaders can and should play a central role in boosting competitiveness. Our Project will look especially at what business... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
and Experimentation Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. Oxford University Press, 2011 An abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
reject it, too. “It turns out that shareholders have many different views, and it’s not only the largest shareholders whose proposals have widespread appeal” The House Financial Services Committee explained it this way in its April 2017... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
HBS professor Dwight B. Crane. Crane's research, prepared in partnership with Ulrike Schaede of the University of California, San Diego, chronicled the evolution of German business from a banking-led corporate finance environment toward a... View Details
- Student-Profile
Anil Doshi
services. We collected individual performance data and found tremendous potential in providing beneficial services to our users that required the aggregation of that data. I became more interested in understanding how the disclosure,... View Details
- Web
Kresge Way | About
ideas with peers, scholars, and business practitioners from across the globe. Before Kresge, food service was located at Cowie Hall, a temporary structure built by the US Navy and sold to the School after World War II. Kresge was a... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 217-016 Financial Services at Falabella (A) In 2010, the board and senior management team of Falabella, a leading retailer with operations throughout Latin America, faced choices about what to do with its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she found may surprise you:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
contributors to "Acting in Time on Energy Policy" are affiliated with Harvard University and rank among America's pre-eminent energy policy analysts. They tackle important questions as they pertain to specific areas of energy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
on September 14, when the campus community came together for a noontime memorial service honoring those lost in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Under gray skies, a steady rain fell on students, faculty, and staff members who stood... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Publications August 2013 Cambridge University Press Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline By: Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills Abstract—Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Sydney, 1954 B.A., Economics, Music University of Sydney, 1957 LL.B. LESSONS FROM HBS “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living standards for the average American.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
others, and unwilling to think of themselves as members of teams rather than the stars and specialists they were taught to be. Twenty years ago, when I was invited to address a group of doctors, I was nearly laughed out of the room when I suggested that the best View Details
- Profile
Phillip Michael Strazzulla
amount of money for a fifth-grader”—he was hooked on finance. Eager to depart the homogeneous town of Cohasset, the upscale South Shore community near Boston where he grew up, Strazzulla headed to New York University to study... View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
watched her aunt lead her own nonprofit foundation which sowed the seeds for Krantz’s interest in social impact. She then translated this passion to the world of international relations and government at Duke University as an... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Porter Ranks Competitiveness
The United States and Germany remain at the top of the latest global Business Competitiveness Index produced by University Professor Michael Porter and two colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. China slipped nine... View Details