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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
industry in the U.S.; Unrest in Chile, Looting at Walmart International; and Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News. The fourth module ("The Future of Globalization") uses the macroeconomic and political economy View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
convert it into actionable initiatives. From founding the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), whose mission is to develop tools to teach women and girls how to harness the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Justine Lelchuk
Philippines. There, she worked with the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction, counseling women in the fine points of business: "business plans, financial statements, how to work with local governments, plus rudimentary business and communications... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
where some industries were centralized, has developed a powerful private sector that "seems well positioned for an entrepreneurial outburst." Vietnam, where all View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Dana Hoffmann
your bills, it’s a great career choice.“ A chance call from a friend of a friend in Silicon Valley turned Hoffmann’s attention from tennis to Portico. The caller explained that he was in property management and tenant relocation and pointed out that that View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
average person to access information on servers around the world. As a tool for exploring how standards are set when new technologies hit the market, the browser wars exhibit many features we like to study: competition between two viable... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
One of the fascinating challenges today is in the life sciences. In many areas related to biotechnology, there are conflicting patents covering areas such as the tools necessary to do research. Yet there is far less of a tradition of... View Details
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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
from an agrarian society to an industrial power. Managers, who now numbered in the millions, got their training either on the job, or in technically oriented, for-profit business schools. The new discipline of management, however, was... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
but once we have a framework, we will not suffer that exhaustion again. Depending on the work you need to do, you need to think about what digital tools to use. Do you need to be on video or could you talk on the phone even if it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
growing pains. RITE is the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States, and reaching that milestone was an odyssey: Smith reckons that the technical challenges, funding crunches, and regulatory hurdles involved in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in... View Details
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The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet - Blog - Business & Environment
even in the starkest winter. It sounds like magic, but it’s Iceland. This past February, 50 HBS Energy & Environment students traveled to Iceland to witness firsthand how the country is harnessing the power of nature to deliver clean... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are organizations and View Details
- November 1993 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Jack Thomas
By: John P. Kotter and Andrew P. Burtis
This redisguised version of an earlier case, Tom Levick, provides an updated setting but does not change the teaching objectives. Chronicles the first six weeks of experience on the job for a recent business school graduate. Emphasis is on managing... View Details
Keywords: Power and Influence; Behavior; Leadership Style; Strategy; Rank and Position; Publishing Industry
Kotter, John P., and Andrew P. Burtis. "Jack Thomas." Harvard Business School Case 494-062, November 1993. (Revised June 2007.)
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
internationally acclaimed experts, have curated this timely volume to help newcomers and seasoned researchers alike to rapidly comprehend a diverse set of thrusts and tools in this rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field. The Handbook... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
Genta manages 5 percent of the state budget and a staff of 270. His ministry oversees the telecom industry and digital improvements in smart city initiatives, education, and health care, as well as programs and partnerships benefitting... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
and children. But part of the transition, which continues into our own time, has been political and social. From the Boston Tea Party to the civil rights boycotts, consumers have used their buying power to express dissatisfaction with the... View Details