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07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

stock, GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) made the decision to cut the company's annual dividend for the first time since 1938. It was gutting for Immelt. He knew the financial impact such a move would have not just on the company, but also on... View Details

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Dream Challenge (involving experts as solvers), we believe this work is unique in that it specifically recruited non-domain experts via the Topcoder platform. Lagace: How did you design and carry out the study? Why Topcoder? LISH team: Topcoder has a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

(whatever its title) will also charge an unsubsidized fee to cover the catastrophic risk it assumes. What impact will these fees have? Understandably, with the best economic models, we will be unable to predict with certainty the impact,... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

13 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

storms disproportionately impact the country’s poorest populations, laying the groundwork for a future public health and humanitarian crisis. Ultimately, the question is not whether India needs to phase out coal, but how swiftly and... View Details

19 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

government institutional development influences the extent to which CSR communications are symbolically decoupled from substantive CSR activities. Our database includes all CSR reports issued by the approximately 1,600 publicly listed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

use the Student Absence Notification Tool to report that they will need to be absent from a session. Participation Due to the condensed format and teamwork required in FIELD Global Capstone, unexcused absences from the on-campus course sessions or immersion programming... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Get Creative

and collaboration. When people are surrounded by constant communication and encouragement, they can find the courage to try, fail, redo, and try again. —GE —Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade could be a form of conquest and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Bar graph transitions into prices associated with sweaters and songs on iTunes Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during,... View Details

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

Vogel clearly viewed deregulation as the right direction for Japan, he said that in most industries, especially communications and finance, the country is not ready. "There are a lot of politicians who are going to slow down that... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. I’ve always found myself drawn to working on products and services that can have a positive impact on the... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all competing financiers choose to offer failure-tolerant contracts to attract entrepreneurs, leaving no capital to fund the most radical, experimental projects... View Details

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

presence of iTunes has a negative impact on the size of p2p networks resulting in reduced congestion and more efficient file sharing. Better functioning p2p networks, in turn, result in more content exchange, affecting positively iPod... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/SDI Productions) Despite reams of material written about remote work in recent months, we know very little about the impact of remote management on performance. Perhaps it’s too soon. Until we can assess... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

around a lot will be successful." Future Trends What about future trends, asked Sahlman. Many venture capitalists made money in enterprise software, until the space was saturated. Will venture capitalists have an impact in fields... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
News

Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

content of our curriculum and build deeper relationships with business and academic communities in key areas of the world. We are seeing dividends in the development of an increasing number of internationally based cases and a growing... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

"great" people is just the beginning; gaining their trust and commitment is equally important. "Without that support, we can't move the company forward," states Smith. That backing, he continues, is earned through a clearly communicated... View Details

October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
Case

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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