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- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
was going on, so I found myself working with 10 or 15 cousins every day after work, and I started writing some simple software for them so I could give them practice problems. “A friend said, ‘Well, you know how to help yourself scale up,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Making Sense of the China-NBA Firestorm, and Debating the Wealth Tax
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
and a presentation by Total Energies, and a walkthrough of the port’s district heating plant. Port Esbjerg offered us a unique perspective on how a port can be a central hub in the transition to renewable energy. Adapting Infrastructure... View Details
- 20 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
company was very much like working for a start up that is on the precipice of transitioning into a larger company. How do you maintain the culture of freedom and creativity while setting yourself up to View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 23 Oct 2024
- Podcast
The business logic of supporting carers in the workforce
Employers can benefit by remapping their talent strategies to match the realities of workers with caregiving responsibilities. Bill Kerr is joined by his Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host, Joe Fuller, lead author of the project’s latest report,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
framework for IT baselining and planning, is examining how the new information economy is transforming the traditional management principles of the industrial economy. Nolan is studying, for example, how IT... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
year at HBS, I found that there weren’t any VC funds of scale that had partners of color; the VC funds that did have partners of color were... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference
On Sunday November 6, over 350 people flocked to the Harvard Business School campus to attend the Marketing Innovation Conference. This year’s theme, “Marketing Reimagined”, drew a wide range of attendees from top marketing professionals... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
officials may be surprised at how much weight students place on these scandals when they decide where to apply. It’s a sign that a single piece of information—however relatively insignificant it may seem in terms View Details
- September 2009
- Article
Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law-Growth Nexus
By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
Strong financial markets are widely thought to propel economic development, with many in finance seeing legal tradition as fundamental to protecting investors sufficiently for finance to flourish. Kenneth Dam finds that the legal tradition view inaccurately portrays... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Economic Development; Kenneth Dam; Finance; Government and Politics; Information; Law
Roe, Mark J., and Jordan I. Siegel. "Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law-Growth Nexus." Journal of Economic Literature 47, no. 3 (September 2009): 781–800. (Strong financial markets are widely thought to propel economic development, with many in finance seeing legal tradition as fundamental to protecting investors sufficiently for finance to flourish. Kenneth Dam finds that the legal tradition view inaccurately portrays how legal systems work, how laws developed historically, and how government power is allocated in the various legal traditions. Yet, after probing the legal origins' literature for inaccuracies, Dam does not deeply develop an alternative hypothesis to explain the world's differences in financial development. Nor does he challenge the origins core data, which could be origins' trump card. Hence, his analysis will not convince many economists, despite that his legal learning suggests conceptual and factual difficulties for the legal origins explanations. Yet, a dense political economy explanation is already out there and the origins-based data has unexplored weaknesses consistent with Dam's contentions. Knowing if the origins view is truly fundamental, flawed, or secondary is vital for financial development policy making because policymakers who believe it will pick policies that imitate what they think to be the core institutions of the preferred legal tradition. But if they have mistaken views, as Dam indicates they might, as to what the legal traditions' institutions really are and which types of laws are effective, or what is really most important to financial development, they will make policy mistakes—potentially serious ones.)
- October 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Roshan: Light at the end of the tunnel in Afghanistan
By: Herman B. Leonard and Qahir Dhanani
Roshan is a highly successful telecommunications company founded by the Aga Khan fund for economic development in Afghanistan during an ongoing civil conflict. Company leaders must now decide financial and market strategy for the next phase of development of the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; War; Telecommunications Industry; Afghanistan
Leonard, Herman B., and Qahir Dhanani. "Roshan: Light at the end of the tunnel in Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 310-041, October 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
polarized light and mirages and Wood's own way of doing things. . . . I decided that the world needed a synthetic polarizer, an extensive sheet of polarizing material, in order to be able to carry out on a... View Details
- Web
A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century, conditions in the American View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
extension of organization boundaries. In the future, will this phenomenon be limited primarily by the environment, or by the ability of managers to take advantage of it? What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
of experimentation, both the design and analysis, are key skills in today’s data-centric economy and an important source of competitive advantage for companies. “Business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost