Project Manager - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling shares in a jointly View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Elizabeth "Betsy" Latimer Jaffe Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

on career management issues. Betsy Jaffe also worked for Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory organization that strives to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women and business. It was 1961 when I went to... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

clusters due to population densities. Enable them to congregate with part-time access to coworking offices. They will self-organize according to project necessity or their own desires for face time. Remote-first will not be without... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

shift to professional management in 1983-1986; the Xerox acquisition in 1987; the MBO in 1993; and the ING acquisition in 1997. Presents the transactions from multiple points of view: the founders and their associates; the professional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

English and history at Dartmouth; his acceptance to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, working as... View Details

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

the GE Foundation sponsors Developing Futures, a program that partners with seven school districts where GE has major operations to upgrade management talent and processes at the district level. Obstacles To Overcome So what's the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

integrate supportive services to provide stability and reduce management costs for property owners. For example, a service provider can work with new tenants to create a monthly budget, ensure they pay their rent on time, and effectively... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the... View Details

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

the selling process moves on. Several years and band-aids later, managers may realize that their channels serve neither their customers nor their channel partners well, but it is too late. Q: What are channel stewards and what role would... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
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Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory

By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla

Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The... View Details

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Purchase

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

decisions, trying to understand how they make decisions now is pretty important. Q: Please describe how the research got started. A: Jim Poterba and I started the project at the end of my time in graduate school. There had been earlier... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA

covered by this policy. any student from Harvard University or any other university that is registered for a course taught by an HBS faculty member.(4) A student venture is any entity that is, or is expected to be, substantially controlled, owned, or View Details

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

companies. I wanted to learn how to have an impact and shape decisions. I had an opportunity to start doing some projects in a large corporation that became the one I wrote about for the book. Simultaneously, the question of women in the... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

customers who are more valuable over time. "One prescription from all of this is that managers should avoid service complacency—or the tendency to rely on preexisting service advantages—and invest more in proactively increasing... View Details