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- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
factors investigated were found to be significant for at least one segment, only consumer price index, personal savings rate, and real gross domestic product were strongly significant. To explore further the dynamics of the segments and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture capital funds in India and the US, exploring investments in... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
recruiters, interview with companies, and have private conversations with clients and team members (more on that later). Companies monitor productivity and goals, but in a world where COVID-19 has turned many companies into “federations... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
problem and other ongoing challenges within psychological science and allied fields. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50151 forthcoming Behavioral Science & Policy Making the Best Laid Plans Better: How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
commercial implications—the technology would be immensely important to biotechnology firms looking to develop gene therapy products and was, therefore, sure to generate strong revenues for whichever entity owned the IP—but would also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
Global Partner (GP) company with a product or service challenge for students to address. The course culminates in a one-week immersion at the company’s location during which students meet with their GP and local consumers. The following... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
network,” says Lewis. “Our eldest scholars are already out working. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, and young professors. Educating people is the most potent and productive way to bring change.” His advice on how to change intrenched culture:... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
later, on a vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a fund focused on gender lens investing and sustainability. Not long after, she left Global Ventures, citing a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
involved with; that company is still in business today. Thanks, Walt, for your passion and commitment. Allan N. Mackey (MBA 1970) I was in Professor Salmon’s Marketing class my second year. We were discussing a case where the company had a serious problem displaying... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Stanley's continuously offered products group, experiences the daily challenge of having to look for new ways to market and position products such as medium-term notes and commercial paper. "So often in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Miller wrote in a 1948 issue. "After July 1, these class notes will emanate from Crossett, Arkansas, where I will be busily engaged in learning the forest products industry." The Bulletin's expanded alumni reporting during World War II... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp experience peer effects that influence the quality of their product prototypes. A one-standard-deviation increase in the performance of proximate teams is related to a two-thirds... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
facilities are more lenient when their organizational scope includes products and services, like selling cars, where enticing customer loyalty can enhance profits. On the other hand, compared with independent facilities, subsidiaries or... View Details