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06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

college admissions to world trade. Its most current form has arisen in connection with moves by the United States to take actions to stem the influx of Chinese-produced goods.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

How patient should we be in waiting for the tech productivity dividend? What do you think? Original Column For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

strategies at different geographic levels. Assessing the level—global, continental, subcontinental, national, intranational, or local—at which scale is most tightly tied to profitability is often a helpful guide to determining what... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

line impact fund that was launched in 2016.” Gandhi: “I am a music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

caught between worlds and identities—and the ways we must choose to reconcile our past with our present. The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

powerhouses and because India is generally very far from world standards in what constitutes good corporate governance. The success and generally positive reputation of India's software firms—in contrast to... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

27 Oct 2017
News

The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received

faith, and you will make it. And it worked. Bob Murphy, class of 1957. I had my first and second year interrupted by three years in the military, where I served in the US Navy. My basic advice in my career... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

the world has three. I don't mean to boast. And there are lots of things that we've been working on since the eighties. We've been trying to get an HIV vaccine since View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

01 Feb 1997
News

Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

Ramesh Vemuganti commented, “Mind boggling innovations & rapid technological advancements (are) retaking the world into an undesirable no man’s land the worst hit will be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Business and Global Society, who leads the Institute. “We want to get their ideas out into View Details

Keywords: April White

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

of globalization, Porter said, is that people tend to think of the world as a giant shopping basket. Ironically, he continued, the world is in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

scar tissue. And I wondered first, what that looked like to you and how you noticed it. And then a little bit about why you think empathy, that characteristic, is so important for leaders. JI: I think empathy is being really able to see View Details

01 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Reflections on the Peek Weekend Family Business Cohort

I learned that family businesses across the world typically face similar obstacles, and that even though every situation is unique, there are strategies that are bound to increase View Details

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

you," she said, urging the importance of "leaning in" to new career challenges. "The world is not going to notice when you take it down." Studies have shown that men are more likely... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

world is the very core of nonprofit governance and management. It is for this reason this book starts with a detailed discussion of mission and how it grows. Right behind this are View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Getting Accepted to HBS through the 2+2 Program

so much more than I came with: a more mature and developed world view, a better sense of myself and my goals, a close-knit section that I plan on staying connected with for the rest of my life, and some of... View Details

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

UHaul from Boston to San Francisco and we showed up in the summer of 2009 knowing basically nobody with an idea. Ten years later we have a real company with over a thousand people around the View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

instantaneously," the Internet has created a world in which competitive advantage can appear and disappear overnight. Yoffie and Cusumano use the term "judo strategy" to... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

of administrative attention during the festival. Tens of millions of people all around the world are moving into cities from the countryside... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

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