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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
accent coaching for non-English speakers. And in this episode of Skydeck, Lakra and I talk about the light bulb moment behind her startup, the economic value of being understood, and the unique powers of immigrants. Courtesy Anada Lakra... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
degree, and with minor variations, it was almost ubiquitous until around 2000. Since then, we’ve been in a punctuated period of rapid experimentation and change. We see many one-year, online, and executive programs challenging the two-year model. That’s because the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
avoided because of cultural norms. I founded SHE in 2008, and its first initiative, SHE28, was created to stem the significant costs to the health, education, productivity, and dignity of women and girls in the developing world caused by... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity of products and services, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage clusters as a tool in economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
status quo—but his cure is a government-run system, I gather from hearsay. I agree with the diagnosis, but my cure is, yes, everybody should have health insurance, but they should control it for themselves. It should be run by the people, not by the government. I'm an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
overlap," Carty emphasizes. "As managers, our challenge is to convince all of our employees and their unions' leadership to change the way we have done business in the past and to create more economic value in the business for the benefit... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after children. It’s important that we not only... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
part, to the sector’s famous reliance on personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the Economy Group. She received her PhD in Business Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and she was a Visiting Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Professor Delgado works on joint... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
demand, the national accounts, and the balance of payments. Aid has no measurable impact on prices or economic growth, though it does affect most components of the national income accounts. We find that much aid is consumed, primarily in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Nigeria, saw how Ebola ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016, which prompted her to think about how she could have an impact in Africa when macro shocks occurred. The crisis led her to HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School—the first steps on her path to a career in View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
be able to experiment with the economics and logistics of a pizza business and gain firsthand experience of his customers as well. The outlet was an instant hit, but Pujals resisted the temptation to immediately replicate it. He waited a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
cultural narratives around economic mobility, the Australian data closely replicated the United States findings. Misperceptions of wealth inequality as well as preferences for more equal distributions may be common across developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
what “pre-soliciting clients” meant, for example. Do the same when you’re in the role of NewCo. Taking great care in hiring teams and individuals shows people thinking about leaving how seriously you view defections. Discourage lift outs through incentives and... View Details