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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
with Euronext to manage a stock exchange in Monaco powered by blockchain. “The Prince said that he wants us to be the founding nation for progress, so we’re doing all we can to make sure the next generation will be attracted to Monaco,” says Genta as he looks to his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
Less than 20 percent of new businesses last five years. Despite those daunting odds, three MBAs from the Class of 1998 are among the elite who succeeded, and their stories make compelling reading in a new book. Former Washington Post... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
support from family or school needed to compete in the labor market. In my own life, I’ve seen how wealth and social capital are the primary means by which students from elite institutions get the best jobs in our economy. This... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
industry leaders. From an inside analysis of today's hottest deals to what VCs look for in a business proposal, the collective wisdom of this elite group becomes an invaluable primer on what it takes to succeed in the high-stakes start-up... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
anti-Communist.” When his parents' marriage ended, his university-educated mother was forced to become a seamstress, and Djelic experienced economic deprivation firsthand. But his obvious talents won him admission to elite schools. With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
the group of elite firms, you need to be a responsible actor. Q: What kinds of things should investors look to leverage from this study? What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) to pay attention to? A: KPIs are the Holy Grail. Since... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
systems for finding elite technical graduates. In addition, CarOrder.com made use of CollegeHire.com, a Trilogy portfolio company that provides a sophisticated online service to place high-tech college graduates. E-Loan's worldwide... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
findings call attention to the informal, everyday practices that generate state capacity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46981 Elite Ideas and Incremental Policy Change: The Expansion of Primary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/10/the-cure-for-horrible-bosses/ar/1 Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities Authors:Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
higher quality products Global status—the idea that transnational brands confer an elite status on the buyer Country-of-origin quality—the idea that "a food chain" of production means that higher-quality goods are created in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
third attempt to gain entry to this elite fraternity, Snyder succeeded — with the stipulation that she obtain a permission letter from her husband, Fred Snyder, a pediatrician. (After she ignored the request, the requirement was quietly... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
near the media hubs (except Atlanta) and far away from those elite opinion-makers in coastal urban areas. “You need to shift your mindset from social media to social strategy.” "MySpace has a PR problem because its users are in... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from Japanese companies that were more... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
low-income countries. The high-quality firms that do exist focus on top-level searches, so companies must scramble to identify middle-level managers, engineers, or floor supervisors. Engineering colleges, business schools, and training institutions have proliferated,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
difference, and willingness to sacrifice.” Simons says the command-and-control format and life-or-death pressure of the military impart important lessons fast. “We are often at our best when we are stressed. In business, we call that stress-testing, and in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
for example, filters down to retailers or health care providers in any useful or timely way. There is some forward movement, though. Lefkowitz notes that the Department of Homeland Security began sharing threat data with private industry in March, opening the audience... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
Is Chinese world trade leadership on the horizon? If so, what will it mean for the rest of us? What do YOU think? References: Thomas J. Christensen, The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) Alexandra... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett