International Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Publisher's site: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8463.html Market Reactions to Export Subsidies Authors:Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr. Periodical:Journal of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2010
What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

hope the comments were as helpful and thought-provoking to you as they were to me. Those of you willing to venture to place weights on the determinants of success gave the nod to culture by a wide margin. As Mouaz AlZayyat put it, "Growth plans and articulated... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

documented as far back as the Egyptian dynasties. While the World Bank estimates that international bribery exceeds $1.5 trillion annually, the larger and more subtle effects of corruption on economies and populations is incalculable.... View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

seem to want. For example, Kodak first began to sense that digital imaging might pose a threat to its core business in the mid-1990s. It invested more than $2 billion in research and development. However, it framed the challenge as,... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol By: Bellezza, Silvia, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan Abstract—While research on conspicuous consumption has typically analyzed how people spend money on products that signal status, we investigate conspicuous consumption in relation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was... View Details

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Searched-For Female," as recorded by Google, and made international headlines for donning a dress made of red meat, which Time Magazine called the top fashion statement of 2010. “Gaga is a marketing phenomenon” So it's almost... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

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Wyss House | About

Wyss House Hansjörg Wyss accepts the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's Beatrice D. Ellerin Alumni Achievement Award, 2007. Wyss House is named in honor of Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) in recognition of his distinguished accomplishments and support. Home to Harvard... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

2022) Halperin, a student in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, is the co-president of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Women’s Student Association, social chair of the MS/MBA program, and the View Details

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

increase their occupancy rates significantly, bringing their earnings more in line with the higher rental incomes of white hosts, according to a study coauthored by Shunyuan Zhang, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Sustainable Investing ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Sustainable Investing $1,850... View Details

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Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian

This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership

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01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Center for Creative Leadership Harvard Business School Case 308-013 The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970 on the notion that leadership... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

entwined into your unique business model that competitors wouldn't be able to readily implement it even if they knew what it was." Khadija Khan suggested that we let the recipient decide, saying that "There is really no need for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

New research finds that companies that took steps to meet an international safety standard further improved their working conditions after adoption, logging 20 percent fewer cases of illness and injury than non-certified firms. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

The role of government in Africa must be to establish an "investor friendly" environment, according to Obiageli Ezekwesili, a panelist at the Africa Business Conference's debate on "Government and the Enabling... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

and Capability Development at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin. William R. Kerr : Winner of the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal in the View Details

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