developing nations - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

others are bidding for what you want? One solution to distinguishing yourself in competitive environments is to build your bargaining endowment—storing up credibility and resources by developing relationships, burnishing your reputation,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Alexander, and Amitabh Chandra Abstract—Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

develop strategies for managing their own emotions, as well as those of the people on the receiving end, in order to facilitate successful task performance. Watching others, role-playing with a colleague, doing a dry-run in front of a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

performance results when compared to other algorithms developed for similar settings. Moreover, we show how our algorithms can be extended for use in general multi-armed bandit problems with resource constraints, with applications in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, authors Conn and McLean—both veterans of McKinsey & Co.—offer a seven-step, systematic approach to creative problem solving, developed in top consulting firms, that will... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

to form the Cleanliness Institute, whose primary function was cooperative sales promotion to teach the American public the importance of keeping clean. The use of the term “institute” emphasized the seriousness, indeed national... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf courses around the world,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

point higher fee relative to the notional invested for selling the dominated bond on average. I develop and estimate a broker intermediated search model that rationalizes this behavior and quantifies the distortions in these markets. In... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

practices are broadly familiar, their application within cross-industry teams calls for unique leadership approaches that combine flexibility, open-mindedness, humility, and fierce resolve. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51140 2016... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4% to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

proponent of product life cycle theory, the late Raymond Vernon, disavowed it on the grounds that developing countries no longer remained focused on old, low-tech products. Traditional trading companies may have declined along with the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 2024
Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details

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08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

addressed, business schools risk being seen as largely places where students come to develop elite social networks and acquire a credential that helps them access particular types of jobs. To make sure that faculty does not lose their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation, as he put it, were sound? Upon... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

parcels at a rapid pace while staying one step ahead of private-sector developers. The strategy required special clearance from the TPL’s national board—which he received—and resulted in a temporary hangover post–financial crisis. But the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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