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- 23 Jan 2014
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry
material licensed by Harvard covering all disciplines. The FIND IT @ Harvard button will automatically appear with search results if you follow the directions here. Factiva - articles from newspapers and trade publications... View Details
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Career Journey | MBA
1% Europe 5% Latin America 1% Middle East / North Africa < 1% United States 88% Class of 2024 who actively sought and accepted full-time roles after graduation. Industry Consulting 18% Consumer Products 3% Entertainment / Media 3% Financial Services 39% Health Care 6%... View Details
- January 2004
- Article
Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts
By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry
Comin, Diego, and Bart Hobijn. "Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts." Journal of Monetary Economics (January 2004).
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement systems and incentives. Narayanan’s... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
L. Bower Publication:Chap. 9 in Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board, edited by Jay A. Conger, 253-275. Jossey-Bass, 2009 Book link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470391782.html Information Content of Insider View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2011
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What Job Do You Hire Your Phone to Do?
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new companies, a few strike gold,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
the wake of the scandals of the past few years is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Of the seventy-one sections of the Act, one probably has caused more expenditure of time and money on the part of leaders of publicly traded firms than all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
Illustration by Chris Philpot Hobbyist drones might make headlines with their crashes on the White House lawn, but the market for unmanned vehicles is rapidly expanding beyond the niche: Over the next decade, according to industry trade... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
market is emerging, new products have been introduced, new trading platforms have been launched, institutions participating in the market have been strengthened, and there is greater public awareness of the critical role capital markets... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
William H. Draper III (MBA 1954), one of America’s first venture capitalists, financed hundreds of high-technology companies. He also was chosen by President Reagan to be president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, where he helped to sustain... View Details
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Kendall Borges
purpose, and meaning and how to incorporate more of it in their work. Previously, Kendall oversaw the HBS coaching program, managing and training a roster of 50+ career coaches who supported HBS students and alumni. Before joining HBS, she worked at BNY Mellon on their... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
widening the generational gap in using cryptocurrency, buying and storing art and wine with nonfungible tokens, trading new kinds of securities on new internet investment sites offering new features, and thinking up new applications for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
scrappier start with very little upfront money. Through a trading card deal, free tickets from a relative who worked for an airline, and lots of time on the phone and on the road, he gradually built a roster of clients. Create Value As... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
climate legislation such as a carbon fee-and-dividend program. Strong policy in G8 nations is all the more important because it removes excuses for inaction by China, India, and other countries with rapidly growing carbon footprints. Second, CEOs should insist that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-070.pdf The Evolving Basis for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Stock Exchanges - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
engraving by unknown artist. [Netherlands? early 17th century]. 19.2 x 29.8 cm AE n1 x The Amsterdam exchange, situated on the Amstel River, was designed by Hendrick de Keijser and opened in 1611. Trading was carried on in the open inner... View Details
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
memory of her husband, a fireman who died at the World Trade Center, by judging him to be worth less than a banker. (A few years later, as special master after the Virginia Tech massacre, Feinberg compensated all victims equally.)... View Details