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- 08 Aug 2016
- News
Writing the Book on Balance
her signature in the 500 books we had printed.” As for managing the demands of a busy working parent (she oversees a large senior housing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge.... View Details
- December 2012
- Case
Blink Booking
By: William R. Kerr, Magnus Thor Torfason and Alexis Brownell
Rebeca Minguela hopes to create an arbitrage platform, similar to Rocket Internet, that can bring start-up ideas and opportunities to Spain. However, Blink Booking, her first venture and proof of concept, is rocked by a co-founder's breach of confidence and departure.... View Details
Keywords: Clones; Cloning; Rocket Internet; Start-up; Equity Split; Arbitrage; Incubator; Mobile App; Expansion; Spain; Europe; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; Accommodations Industry; Travel Industry; Spain; Europe
Kerr, William R., Magnus Thor Torfason, and Alexis Brownell. "Blink Booking." Harvard Business School Case 813-121, December 2012.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews
By: Loretti I. Dobrescu, Michael Luca and Alberto Motta
This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in the book industry. Reviews are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to... View Details
Dobrescu, Loretti I., Michael Luca, and Alberto Motta. "What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-080, March 2012. (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Revised August 2013.)
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Bringing History into International Business
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
professional schools, and as the women's movement matured and grew, there has been increasing interest among women's historians to study women's contribution and role in the development View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
implementing successful transformations. In this book he examines the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Leadership by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella (Palgrave Macmillan) This book examines the evolution of leadership through the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
are examined not only as economic entities but as businesses affecting almost all areas of our experience. The book explores the View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
challenges. His story, which Professor Emeritus Nolan and his coauthors developed in collaboration with seasoned, real-life CEOs, includes crucial lessons for anyone hoping to master the new-world skills required View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
the realities of China today, this book presents Perkowski’s insights about the challenges and potential of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and back again by 1994? Contrary to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
responsible for the personal growth of such people and illustrates the archetypes with personal stories, many in the CEOs’ own words. View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
also create business opportunities. In this book Professor Di Tella and his colleagues present case studies taught in his HBS course of the same name, which addresses... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Teaching History in the Present Tense
When Professor David Moss debuted his case-based class, History of American Democracy, he introduced a new way of thinking about the subject:... View Details