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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
place for the brand in the emerging counterculture, developing a "slacker allegory." Holt also described the transformation of American ideology in the early '90s. The country idolized... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
Khan Academy across 190 countries and 50 languages. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Khan about how the nonprofit got its start and the role it... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest and gather assets in countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Crisis By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
structures that we occupy. The authors make the case that the characteristics of where we live and work—things like air quality, acoustics, and lighting—have a massive impact on our physical and mental health, and lay the foundations for View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
vicissitudes in history, as with mercantilism—the idea that a state would be better off by making its neighbor poorer—which dominated in Europe for centuries and led to many wars. And then globalization increased in the early 1900s until the Great Depression, when we... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
poverty in developing countries. Timothy A. Piper (MBA ’88), Techno-Serve’s deputy country director, later invites us to dinner at his home in Dar es Salaam with a special guest: the acting U.S. ambassador... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
Marvel Over the course of a chilly Danish morning, our group of 45 students had the opportunity to interact with leading Vestas engineers, learn about the company’s latest offshore wind efforts, and tour its manufacturing facility, tracking the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
History and Role in an Investment Strategy was published by Dow Jones-Irwin. My Dow chart (24” x 36”), which traces the DJIA’s monthly movement over the past century, has gone into eighteen editions. Eventually, I developed my current... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
from the athenahealth practice management system and EHR task logs. Methods: We developed monthly measures of EHR use and delegation to support staff from task logs. Productivity was measured using work relative value units (RVUs). Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
that was looking for "an expert at the intersection of technology, child exploitation, and trafficking," she says. "It was a job description that I would have written for myself." Now back in the Washington area, "I do all of the strategy for how the UN promotes or... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Antoine Lambert, General Manager of Coeur Tendre (an ex-entrepreneur whose company Deronde had bought); Yang Jianguo, Country Manager of Deronde International's Chinese subsidiary; and Yves Saurac, Vice President of Product View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
prescription for more commoditized products that can have little value-added and need to be produced in the countries with the lowest costs." Does Parker have something here? What's the downside to disruption in high tech? What do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
The research of HBS professor Boris Groysberg centers on a question that troubles many managers: How do I hire and develop top performers who will contribute to my company's success? The author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
low cost or a business providing goods or services that end or reduce respiratory ailments. Bringing together public healthcare and market forces "could have huge impact," says Chu. That feeling was underscored by Chu's own extensive experience in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
knighthood, recognizing his contributions to the venture capital industry.) Out of that study came a series of policy recommendations aimed at creating a sustainable system for investments in deprived areas, including creation of community View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details