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- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
100% Latino and 100% American. They’re comfortable with both Spanish and English. They’re similar to millennials in terms of the challenges in figuring out what they want.” During the Q & A, one guest asked Conde to share what he’s... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Gould. “The issue being that if you don’t have women executives, you’re not going to have the right candidates to move to boards.” In 2012, the United Kingdom implemented a mandatory “comply or explain” system through the UK Corporate Governance Code, View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture returns that are twice as large as their normal trading performance. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
given similarities in culture and language. “There need to be new reasons for companies to do business in the UK despite a far smaller home market,” says Porter. Academia a strength to build upon The United Kingdom’s strengths in academic... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
women in business leadership in the communities specifically; the researchers tested for effects of female leadership in politics and civil society, but found no similar effect. Next, they analyzed a comprehensive sample of new nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
transportation and clinical visits, but their patients end up having 45 percent lower hospitalization rates,” Kaplan says. Kaiser Permanente Colorado implemented a similar program with a high-risk elderly population suffering from... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
over the network--may be destroyed. There is an answer to this problem: distributed networks with maximum connectivity (all nodes connected to each other by alternate paths similar to a fish net) with the capability of self-repairing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
medium, a similar dynamic could apply, with an increase in the supply of television (and ways to view it) causing a shift to new content and perhaps a small drop in how it’s viewed, but no real change in the allocation of time or watching... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
healthcare services is taking place from Asia to Africa. In India, the Avarind Eye Hospital provides routine eye surgeries to the highest quality standards at perhaps a tenth of the developed country price. A mass production approach to other routine surgeries, such as... View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD), the survey compiled anonymous input from 1,067 directors in some 58 countries. The researchers were surprised at the extent of similarity in the majority of responses related to economics and politics, not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-039.pdf Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked Authors:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
of Summit's funds that were ten years old or older were in the top quartile, and he said he believed the 1999 fund he's involved with would likely occupy a similar spot when exits were made and the returns counted. "But that means... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
maintaining majority control over its natural resources. Although the mine was nationalized in time, Kennecott emerged in much better condition than similar companies that had mainly limited their bargaining strategies to interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
communities without perpetuating gentrification?” With this in mind, Straughn-Turner set about exploring his interest in real estate alongside a dedicated cohort of classmates with similar goals. He joined the Real Estate Club and took an... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
of organizations and develops partnerships across the United States that fight racism by promoting social change and that create opportunities for advancement in the Black community. The ARF supports causes in four categories that are View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
applicable are skills learned at HBS for recent graduates facing real-world challenges? What are the differences and similarities for alumni who work in the private and nonprofit sectors, in large corporations vs. smaller organizations?... View Details
- 27 Jan 2012
- News
Early-Stage Incubator Launches at Harvard
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
better resources; and few (if any) companies have ever worshiped more devoutly at the altar of raw individual talent than Enron, one of the most spectacular corporate failures in history.3 As we will show, underlying structural View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
world. Amazon is planning a similar constellation of satellites, as is China. Of course, the initial application of that is just providing Internet coverage to places where it’s hard to run fiber-optic cables. But, if you think about the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it’s also a moment similar to when the School was founded in 1908, with a banking crisis and general... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson