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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
production of weapon systems and equipment, DoD engages tens of thousands of prime contractors—including most of the major firms in the United States—and tens of thousands of suppliers and subcontractors. The importance of the DoD's huge... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
inspire immediate excitement. Then Jacobson and his crew showed him another example, this time under a microscope, in which the pixels migrated over an electrode to spell out MIT. “You could see the individual particles moving around,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
was so bored with the antiquated course offerings that he spent much of his time at Stagedoor, India’s largest professional theater company. There he acted in eleven plays and frequently served as production manager. Following in his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
history, it’s likely the crisis would have been avoided, Cook argues. Six years after the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, taxpayers continue to own and heavily subsidize one of the largest companies in the world. Primed to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
to make the transition from a communist planned economy to a market economy. And we felt incredibly privileged to be part of that process. We became good friends with the then, Prime Minister Philip Dimitrov. We started the International... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
set in 1972, involves a Pakistani professor, a CIA spy, an American businessman, and India’s secret development of an atomic bomb. Related events include the KGB’s influence on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government and Pakistan’s plan... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
Moss Kanter: I have for a long time been interested in all the institutions of a country that make a difference for the effectiveness of business and the prosperity of people. And I teach leadership, so I teach about running large... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
its age. Although one path would be to shore up the LP's capacity incrementally to allow the company to sustain its momentum with minimal disruption, Nicolette felt it was just a matter of time before they had to tackle a complete rewrite... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, and E.M. Gerber... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
those of the 1970s and 1980s. The world has changed much since former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher first began implementing large-scale privatizations. In fact, we document some cases of present-day competitive SOEs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
billion worldwide; that number, though still small compared to the approximately $85 billion that went to all male teams, is 15 times the amount invested in women-led companies in 2010. The latest research from Gompers and Calder-Wang... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
one woman founder hit a record $46.3 billion worldwide; that number, though still small compared to the approximately $85 billion that went to all male teams, is 15 times the amount invested in women-led companies in 2010. The latest... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
September 2015 The Business of Love In search of the perfect dating app The Protagonist Goes Prime Time How HBS is bringing the case method into the digital era The ‘F’ Word Failure. No one likes it, yet... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
or had previous experience as a head coach did not suffer significant second-half tenure penalties. On the other hand, Super Bowl non-winners, shorter-tenured coaches, and first-time coaches all fell prey to the second-half tenure penalty. Meanwhile, the age of coaches... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Indomie noodles. But in order to truly target the local market, Tolaram decided to build manufacturing and distribution capabilities in Nigeria at a time when conventional wisdom advised against it. After a very difficult journey, Tolaram... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
HBS. “It’s going to change the way we live our lives. We just don’t know how.” After decades of false starts and incremental advances, quantum computing finally began to show signs of business relevance about 10 years ago. In 2016, IBM made a quantum processor... View Details