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Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Business and Geopolitics Jeremy Friedman Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Capitalism and the State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall... View Details

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

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Karen Mills | Working Knowledge

investments in growth capital. Additionally, Mills’ efforts helped small businesses create regional economic clusters, gain access to early-stage capital, boost exports, and tap into government and... View Details

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

to do so because all benefited from a healthy commons. Modern industries have commons as well, although they are infinitely more complex than the simple town greens of centuries past. Today's industrial commons consist of webs of... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

three C’s: Content, Community, and Care. For Content, Plenna is a modern source of information for women’s health; you can find tips on birth control, managing vaginal infections, and general gynecology. We’re also building a strong... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Andrea Silbert

we are doing really counts.” With a mission “to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship,” CWE provides education, training, technical assistance, and access to capital to women who want... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Evgeny Koudryavtsev

In Novosibirsk, Evgeny Koudryavtsev was inspired "by a wonderful teacher who engaged students to learn more about economics and finance." After completing his undergraduate education in Moscow, Evgeny obtained his first position... View Details

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

more as a consumer—a purchased good versus an experience that will transform their life.” RM: If I just think about the economics of the expenses—at least here at Harvard—about 70 percent of the expenses are fixed costs in people and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

04 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 4

necessary for reviving economic growth both domestically and internationally. Would these policies successfully create a resurgence of growth? Can expansionary monetary policies be considered... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 1997
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New Releases

describes how Matsushita helped lead Japan's economic growth after World War II, inventing business practices that were adopted fifty years later by many of the world's great corporations. An exemplar of... View Details

22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Dharmapala Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

every general manager understands the role of energy in the world. Part of the course will explore how energy enables our prosperity, enables our economic activity. But I want to spend the bulk of the time thinking about what kinds of... View Details

September 2024
Case

Faena: Magic in Mid-Miami Beach

By: Robin Greenwood, Denise Han, Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page

The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

This multimedia case follows real estate developer Alan Faena as he expanded his luxury development business from Argentina to the... View Details

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19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

trying rush to market, but it is not how great policies get formulated. Like many, many Americans, I am the grandchild of immigrants. Our country’s growth and prosperity have depended on immigrants. I recently published a book (Strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another important issue to consider: in our setting, the key factor that determines whether two functions or firms... View Details