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- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
collaborator John U. Farley have studied the impact of corporate culture and national culture on global marketing strategy. A few years ago they looked at the role played by these key organizational factors (innovation, market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
1944 with a very specific directive: Support the Slovak National Uprising to weaken the Axis forces—and, hopefully, bring a speedy close to WWII. While the group was eventually forced into the Slovak mountains by advancing German... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
of its members, whatever their nationality or belief. We are grateful for the expressions of concern and support we have received and optimistic that, working together, we can protect the exchange of people and ideas that are so vital to... View Details
- 1986
- Chapter
Investing in the Defense Workforce: The Debt and Structure of Military Pensions
By: Dutch Leonard
Keywords: Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Borrowing and Debt; Sovereign Finance; National Security
Leonard, Dutch. "Investing in the Defense Workforce: The Debt and Structure of Military Pensions." In Public Sector Payrolls, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
States and China. As political tensions rise between the two countries, US government policies have caused a move away from direct trade with China, shifting sourcing to lower-wage nations and friendly neighbors and shoring up American... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
preferences (with the beauty industry as an example). According to panelists, globalization has a homogenizing effect on diverse national cultures. Its pressures cause societies to become more alike, converging in business approaches,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
and purviews. This leaves online small business lenders to be governed by an expensive and time-consuming patchwork of state oversight, often with inconsistent rules that can confine online lending to state-by-state silos, undermining what is an otherwise View Details
Jeff Goldman
Practicing solely in the field of immigration law for 31 years; mentor to YC, Techstars, MassChallenge and HBS entrepreneurs; Chair of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's Immigration Advisory Council; Founder of Open Avenues Foundation and Build Fellowship which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
New Zealand Adventure
It was a perfect summer day in New Zealand, and what better way to ring in the New Year than exploring protected bays, enjoying golden sand beaches, and searching for stingray by kayak in Abel Tasman National Park. This is how seventeen... View Details
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Carla Harris Photo courtesy of Carla Harris On August 12, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Carla Harris (MBA 1987) to be the Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). Harris is a prominent global investment... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the heels of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. These events heightened his concern and commitment to help find solutions to the troubles of urban areas. In 1969, he joined the staff of the National... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine convoy discovered a possible... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Lily Fu Sara Marcus 20 Sep 2018 This year, we will be highlighting the work of social enterprise related student clubs at HBS. In... The National Park Service: A Mini-Business with a Twist Olivia Staffon 13 Sep 2018 My internship with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
BIG BETS: Kao proposes investment in research and education. Robert Gumpert/NB Pictures As innovation guru and former HBS faculty member John Kao (MBA ’82) sees it, the United States is already losing on the great economic battleground of the 21st century: the struggle... View Details
- Fast Answer
REITs (real estate investment trusts)
Where do I find information on real estate investment trusts (REITs)? General Background: National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts: Produces the global and domestic indices for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
News in the News Biz
turns down,” he wrote. But such layoffs, he warned, should take into account the paper's unique contribution to its readers. Bower advised most local papers to save money by not sending reporters into the field to cover national and... View Details
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John Safer Search 1983 | About
John Safer (Harvard JD’49) has had a varied career as a real estate developer, lawyer, and financier, and has served as chairman of the board of the District of Columbia National Bank. In 1965, he began making sculptures, many of them... View Details
Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
receiving the National Entrepreneurship Award from the President of Mexico in 2014. In 2019, he was honored with the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor the School bestows. Alvaro serves on the boards of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
In 1994, Sarah Hoit (MBA '93) became director of business planning in the White House Office of National Service, designing and implementing AmeriCorps, the Clinton administration's $600 million national- and community-service... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the View Details