Emergency Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

stick described above--could shake managers out of their indecision and provide a privately-directed, revenue-neutral stimulus that could eclipse the effects of any potential stimulus that could emerge from... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

18 Apr 2007
HBS Case

How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor

the United States. We've been unable to crack that code of 'courting the poor' in any systematic way, so I wanted to investigate further." Frei, a member of the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, uses the case in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

25 Aug 2014
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

general management tour of duty,” says Marcelo, who found enthusiastic mentors at the young company and was soon asked to join the management team. Also during this time, a frightening family incident helped... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

mistake companies make is to rely on employees from the core organization to staff new ventures.— Clark Gilbert and Joseph L. Bower It's important to note that calling a business separate and making a business separate are two different things. In many newspaper... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

ongoing state support and federal emergency aid will be required to avoid a crisis.” Telepsychiatry may increase patient access David Theobald (HBS MBA 1991)’s interest in mental health technology commercialization has led him to Genoa... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

In many emerging economies, the need to give people in poverty better access to financial services seems obvious. The mobile phone is a perfect vehicle, given their widespread adoption, even among the financially less well off. Designing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

of naïve idealism, one of naïve cynicism, and an emerging era of rugged idealism. We explain how the role of the corporate leader and society's perceptions of this role have changed and how leaders may now be able to create shared value... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business... View Details

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—This paper contributes to an emerging literature in management control that studies employee selection as a mechanism to align employees with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

magnitude of fundamental technological innovation in the economy, the presence of liquid and competitive markets for venture capitalists to sell their investments (whether markets for stock offerings or acquisitions), and the willingness of highly skilled View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-37), the U.S. Emergency Board, convened to resolve the wage controversy between railroad management and labor during the 1938 railway strike, and; and his work as a... View Details

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and process of institutional entrepreneurship. It also presents the previously identified enabling conditions for, and reviews... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 1999
Case

net.Genesis, Inc.

By: Robert J. Dolan, Rajiv Lal and Perry Fagan

Net.Genesis is planning a strategy for the developing Internet market. In particular, it is creating the category of e-business intelligence and striving to be the brand leader in it. View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Strategic Planning; Expansion; Brands and Branding; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Communications; Internet and the Web; Change Management

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April 2004 (Revised September 2005)
Case

China and the WTO: Doing the Right Thing?

In late 2001, the People's Republic of China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). Sets the terms of China's accession agreement against its compliance record some two years later. Discusses why key actors, such as business, organized labor, and other governments,... View Details

Keywords: Management; History; International Relations; Judgments; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; Governance Compliance; Emerging Markets; Global Strategy; China

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17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro: Four key themes emerge from an analysis of this struggle between two firms and their governments. The first is how managers can use international organizations, in this case... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Press, in press Abstract Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges—from anticipating emerging technology to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled. It is also useful for everyone going into general management and / or want to be responsible owner investors. 90% of the global... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Short Takes

employers and employees. "The growth of staffing agencies suggests that we may be witnessing a slow recasting of the economy's institutional matrix where people are emerging as bundles of skills, organizations as constellations of... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

the context of an M&A transaction in an emerging economy and the role of private equity and venture capital in the development and the eventual consolidation of the new media advertising industry. Provides a context in which to... View Details