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Debora L. Spar
Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why business leaders need political skills,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Debora L. Spar | About
Debora L. Spar Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society , Unit Head, General Management Unit General Management Contact Phone Bio Debora... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute, Debora View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
whose knowledge and expertise may prove irreplaceable. People resent the United States for its prosperity, for its power, and for the presumption that prosperity and power give it the right to judge and advise others. —Debora L. View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 11 Feb 2022
- News
Professor Debora Spar: Symphonic
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
We prefer to think of babies as cuddly bundles of joy, but they are also products at the center of a multibillion-dollar market in adoptions and scientific conception, a market that few people acknowledge and that functions like no other. Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz/theispot.com by Debora L. Spar In 1991, when I joined the HBS faculty, men... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing education inequities exacerbated by the pandemic
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
their work. Joining the discussion was Professor Debora Spar, a political scientist who recently traced the historical development of several pioneering technologies. Leading Research: Let's begin by talking... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor conditions. The result, say HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Business and Geopolitics Jeremy Friedman Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Capitalism and the State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. View Details
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Capitalism and the State (CATS) Business, Government & the International Economy, General Management Debora L. Spar Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
of how difficult it’s going to be.” Spar says the Social Democrats “tried to do the right thing,” by welcoming migrants. “But there is a tacit consensus that they went faster and farther than the country... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Robert Simons Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management, Organizational Behavior Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Emil Siriwardane Investment Management and Capital Markets... View Details
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Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Business and Geopolitics Jeremy Friedman Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Capitalism and the State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
CEO Peter Job from the U.K. and the panel's moderator, HBS Professor Debora Spar, for a look at the critical role of the media industry in how today's global information revolution plays out. "The media industry," said View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
"It is difficult to conceive of a child as commerce," writes Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar in her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science,... View Details