International Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA '89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has become the industry leader in a new business spawned by the Internet -- ad serving. The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

declined during the pandemic, now that we’re all at home more. We’re also very strongly invested in email, and we have an app. BA: I’d love to hear more about community. You want to create stickiness, particularly with subscription... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

unity all that created and how it allowed us to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems." Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa (MBA '69) - who was known as Arthur S. Warshaw while at HBS and is now an American Sikh-has helped weave spirituality into the very fiber of Khalsa... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

direction. "For the first three months," Charron continues, "I did nothing but listen. I had to listen to figure out what the hell was going on. All I did was go around and meet people — hundreds of people inside and outside the company, in the View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

company had focused on its internal operations and paid little attention to external communications about its social activities. However, this changed in the late 1990s, partly due to external pressures. There were some confrontations... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

receiving only a dispenser, (2) these effects persist after monitoring or incentives are removed, and (3) the anticipation of monitoring increases handwashing rates significantly, implying that individuals internalize the habitual nature... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in teamwork. The English workforce redesign experience offers important... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

collaboration, and international investment in industry. The United States and Germany are represented as partners in both the railroad and imperialist expansion. In such images of “manifest destiny” that... View Details

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