Modern Economic Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating social and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

succeed. "Getting the venture capital field off the ground... was as risky as the new industries it would invest in..." author and analyst Kenneth Fisher argues. "[Doriot] staked both reputation and money in an effort to prove his idea was a viable method of... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni Are Integral to HBS

with Belo-Osagie in an Aldrich classroom engaging with 57 first and second-year MBA students. During the four-day course, he worked with Elkins to provide an overview of Africa’s economic landscape, range of business opportunities, and... View Details

19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future

in the Philippines, Jaime “Jim” Ayala (MBA ’88) decided to put his considerable business experience to work improving the lives of some of his native country’s poorest citizens. Explaining his 2009 decision to leave Ayala Land, which had seen a 130 percent View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a three-month period... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager | Working Knowledge

precedent The finding has implications for economic development policy, says Sadun. For example, companies often receive incentives to invest in technology or property. In the future, she suggests, policymakers should consider... View Details

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

decrease them during the downturn. Both results are in line with the behavior of inexperienced investors in experimental asset markets. The economic significance of young managers' actions is amplified by large inflows into their funds... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

and Latin America. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53078 Harvard Business School Case 818-025 Bluemercury: Leading High Growth Businesses No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

cases and readings in the module and relates the cases included to the main patterns of international capital flows in the last thirty years. Finally, the chapter also presents the key insights from the field of international economics... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2003
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Mark Fuller

was not immune to the effects of recent worldwide economic sluggishness. “We had some sobering moments in 2001 and 2002,” admits Fuller. But grappling with slower growth “made everyone a lot smarter.” After... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 Jun 2024
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Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors, it was View Details

Rudina Seseri

Directors roles at ChaosSearch, CloudTruth, inrupt, Navigant (acquired by Veritas), Plannuh, Talla, Verusen, Zylotech, Celtra, CrowdTwist (acquired by Oracle), and SocialFlow. Rudina has 17 years of investing and operational experience in high View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

January 2011
Teaching Note

Online Pet Supply Retailing (TN)

By: Tom Nicholas

Teaching Note for 809-117. View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Failure; Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Decisions; Retail Industry; United States

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30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

integration, and changes to the company culture. He sought to manage change at the company as growth in traditional areas slowed and position it as a leader in a 5G world. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318114-PDF-ENG... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Evolution of Land... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases, articles, and papers on Chinese business, as well as his recent book, Can... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

September 2011 (Revised September 2015)
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Hassina Sherjan

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Pippa Eccles

Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a non-profit... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Innovation Leadership; Development Economics; Growth and Development; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Afghanistan; United States

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September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
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Bharti Tele-Ventures

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Ingrid Vargas

Following the liberalization of India's telecommunications service industry in the early 1990s, Bharti Tele-Ventures grew from a small entrepreneurial telephone equipment importer and manufacturer to become India's largest private-sector telecommunications service... View Details