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- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
information than the Gini alone can capture. Indeed, each one of the Ortega parameters focuses on different aspects of the income distribution; the first captures the extent to which income is distributed between low-income earners and medium-to-high-income earners,... View Details
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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
With their shallow draft, steamships could sail closer to land and venture into the rivers. After the Second Opium War between Great Britain and China (1856–1860), additional Chinese coastal ports as well as... View Details
- Profile
Bobby Tuohy
surgeries. “When I submitted the necessary paperwork after the second surgery, the Navy told me I could never fly a fighter jet again.” Bobby’s dream had been grounded. “I had defined myself by my ambition,” Bobby says. While considering... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
serial entrepreneur and leadership coach. Unleashed, their second book, reflects the married couple’s passion for sharing the knowledge and experience they have gained through years as “accelerators of action.” Kristen Senz: How did you... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
productive, even if the tool is a great tool,” Choudhury says. That’s not to say that companies need to necessarily hire computer scientists. It may be that with extensive training, employees without such backgrounds can learn to use... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
harm businesses more than help. Certainly, when a great match happens it can be magic, but just like any marriage, one should not enter the relationship rashly. When thinking about whether or not you need a cofounder, consider: How could... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
than recent economic crises and recessions such as the Great Recession of 2008 and the Mideast oil crisis, whose causes were financially driven. The fundamental driver of the pandemic is health and safety concerns and hence customer... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
sectionmates respected friends, with great integrity and intelligence, and the divergence of opinion still amazes me. In a certain sense, the seeds of different worldviews were all in the room during the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
vaccine did more harm than good. We don't have a great history of introducing vaccines quickly in the middle of a pandemic. We want to keep that in mind. The second point that I think is very important is I... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
lessons for business leaders to be found in areas outside business. History itself, literature, theater—look to Shakespeare and Henry V, Julius Caesar, or King Lear. When we look at these enduring works, we find more than just great... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
decisions and automates that process. So, instead of a few humans making decisions, now you can have millions of machines making systematically biased decisions. That scale can have a significant impact on society. The second one is also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Research Summary
Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
about how to do “engineering” projects, about my ability to work with others to get things done, and about what it felt like to make good money and to be in an position to support myself. I performed well that summer and got a return offer for a View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
economy was entering a recession. Great timing!" Leading a group of seven other Polaris managers and joined by his late father, William (MBA '40), he acquired the unit, accomplishing one of corporate America's first LBOs. "We signed the... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Stepping Stone, Stopping Point, or Slippery Slope? Negotiating the Next Iran Deal
The November 2013 "interim" nuclear deal between Iran and the "P5+1"—the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany—raises challenging questions. Will the initial deal function as a stepping stone toward a more comprehensive deal? Or will it drift into... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Iran; Nuclear; Conflict Resolution; Winning Coalition; Blocking Coalition; Strategy; Negotiation; International Relations; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia
Sebenius, James K. "Stepping Stone, Stopping Point, or Slippery Slope? Negotiating the Next Iran Deal." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-061, January 2014. (Revised March 2014.)
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
investment banking houses considered film studios a risky venture, by the late 1920s, movie attendance had skyrocketed to the millions, transforming the motion picture business into a major industry. As the nation recovered from the Great... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
noted in The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Harvard Business School Press, 1997), firms innovate faster than our lives change to adopt those innovations, creating opportunities for disruptive... View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
often provided in a top-down manner. The second difference is the nature and extent of openness to outside influence and foreigners. Foreign direct investment pours into China. India has embraced foreign direct investment much less, for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
program requires all students in Danish public schools to take a series of standardized tests from second grade through eighth grade—roughly age eight through age 15. As it happens, students are randomly assigned to take their tests at... View Details
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.” “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.” “When possible, refer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman