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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
suggest important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US Census micro data on firm-level output, R&D and patenting. The model provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
908-068 In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer Alvin Roth and a small group of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate governance practices across legal families... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
for Growth & Innovation I was an incoming MBA student at HBS in 1984 from the Philippines. It was my first time living abroad, and for the first few months after my arrival in Cambridge, I felt quite lonely for home. One day, I received a... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor laws, cultures, and tax structures vary significantly. The consumer sees a cool product and an awesome brand, but there’s a huge amount of unglamorous business activities behind... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
George is the finance director for the Post Carbon Institute, a California think tank dedicated to promoting sustainable energy that recently examined the Bakken in its report Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
response. That development—one we now take for granted—is just the start of innovations in health care and beyond. According to McKinsey’s Kevin Sneader (MBA 1993), that same approach, as well as other combinations of biological science... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
employer-based insurance will return Amitabh Chandra: More demand for insurance exchanges Recessions and pandemics create job losses that highlight the problems of tying health insurance to employment. Cleaving insurance from employment is often viewed as a path to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Tencent
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426.
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details
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- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
the depth and breadth of the challenges they face. “We’re one of very few nonprofits actually founded during COVID,” said Collenette, a longtime champion of women and childcare reform in Canada, who has served in both government and the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless technology in South Korea and elsewhere on the Pacific Rim has leapfrogged U.S. advances. In this dynamic... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
and innovate from. Our efforts thus required an experimental laboratory to discover what will enable us as educators and trainers to efficiently and effectively create leaders. Dean Mark Zupan of the University of Rochester Simon School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of U.S. government bond returns. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/MBS_Paper_20140104.pdf Working Papers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
in resource-poor areas of the globe to support public health. In 2008, DFA won both the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Business Plan Contest and the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Endeca Steve Papa, MBA 1999 Endeca’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
grandchildren, home today due to a teachers’ strike. The story of how she built her house, dug a well, and fought to get electricity (at one point giving most of her savings to a government official) is an epic tale that spans many years... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
helpful to them going forward. They also start to build personal relationships with faculty and administrators who may be pivotal to their adaptation process during their two-year stay." The student government at HBS now includes... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Institute, an innovative cross-university effort to accelerate scientific discovery and translation in the domain of stem cells. Covers a wide range of topics, including understanding how science research gets funded, how politics affect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace