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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

environments can challenge previously institutional structures creating new opportunities and risks. More generally, gains from globalization and technology can have different allocations and distributive effects. The cases in the module... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

In the fall of 2019, Kaelyn Griffin and Adam Palay entered HBS as two of 30 students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, a joint degree offered with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Designed to train future leaders of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 17 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

political motivations for Vietnamese leaders to provide equalizing transfers that limit inequality growth among provinces.   Cases & Course MaterialsBackground on the Technology of Molecular Diagnostics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

divisionalized structures, which were transferred worldwide as U.S. companies expanded abroad. This combination of delegation of responsibility to professional management and coordination and control through sophisticated management... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

closed down flows of trade and capital across borders. Yet firms were rarely able to wholly dictate events. Their ability to transfer technology was constrained by the institutional, educational, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Finalists | New Venture Competition

software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service, connecting individual satellites in any orbit to a broad network of satellites and their connected ground stations across the world. CareConverse.ai Eshwar Inapuri... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks of tasks. Transactions, defined as mutually agreed-upon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

to be transferred into the corporate brain," a formidable task in many organizations. Those stressing the importance of memory placed the greatest value on the retention of talent in the organization. As C. J. Cullinane put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently and very efficiently. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

during tumultuous change—the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Civil War in the United States—yet accomplished an enormous amount during this time of ferment: for example, technology transfer to China,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBSGrid Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

Usage and Policies HBSGrid Terms of Service 4ms To obtain access to Harvard Business School’s technology resources through Research Computing Services (RCS), you must acknowledge this agreement either electronically, on paper, or via... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 11

markets are closer (a better fit) to one firm than to the other, and that certain knowledge is more transferable across markets (less market specific). We then solve the model computationally and identify three equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

Chinese babies), and international restrictions and legislation concerning adoption. High-tech measures include IVF, artificial insemination, surrogacy, gamete interfallopian transfer (GIFT) in which the sperm is injected directly into... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50952 The Great Training Robbery By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader Abstract—In 2012 U.S. corporations spent $164.2 billion on training and education. Overwhelming evidence and experience shows,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne