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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play. Zeenat Potia: Can you give some context around the downturn of the Indian economy... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
managers or executives at banks, insurance companies, asset management or private equity firms, or hedge funds. Groysberg and Healy will teach the program in England, in India, in China, and on the HBS Boston campus throughout 2012 and 2013. "Leading a financial... View Details
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Institutional memories are short. But internal business pressures also play a part as executives balance the need to protect current revenue streams with the imperative to get behind new concepts crucial to future success. And too often... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration; Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration; Abhiman Da, of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; and Arti Grover and Ejaz Ghani, both of... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what is acceptable behavior—think... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
accounting contributions of historical writings such as the Smritis and the Arthashatra. We also discuss the accounting system used by the East India Company. Next we provide an overview of contemporary Indian accounting systems View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Indeed, many of the leaders we've celebrated over the last decade or two made their organizations competitive by instituting fairly linear improvements, such as reengineering, supply chain management, enhanced customer responsiveness, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
the peak of the market a significant fraction of institutional money was controlled by young managers, thanks in part to rising prices for tech stocks, the researchers say. We asked Greenwood to discuss the research and its implications... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
resilience and success. Hise O. Gibson is a senior lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Anita Lynch is an executive fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and a board member of the Nasdaq US... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
struggled to get twenty-five people to the conference. At that conference the academics and consultants came together and created a professional society called the Family Firm Institute (FFI) to develop professionals in the field. Now,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
http://hbr.org/product/ge-and-the-industrial-internet/an/614032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-020 Goldman Sachs: Anchoring Standards After the Financial Crisis Goldman Sachs, a longtime venerable financial institution... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
different Italian city-states of the late Middle Ages, by seeing how subsequent economic development was first theorized there in the late Renaissance, and finally by embracing the enduring ideas and institutions that it bequeathed us.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
sovereign wealth fund—indeed the world's largest institutional investor. But Abu Dhabi is not yet a "developed" economy. So, in 2002, the Mubadala Development Company was established as a government-owned investment vehicle.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions exceeded the benchmark performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609055 Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China Harvard Business School Case 309-074 Huang Teng founded Xi'an International University (XAIU) as a private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
is a later-stage company with revenues in excess of $100 million; the other a pre-revenue company trying to raise its first institutional round. The entrepreneurs must consider their options and the impact on their companies' growth and,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
procurement can be streamlined to avoid inadequate specification of the project’s scope and/or a bad selection process. For example, Senegal’s Infrastructure Council vets projects, the World Bank and other development finance institutions... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
LV:There’s certainly a symbolic vibe when the Dow gets to 20,000-- something to celebrate to the extent that it reflects the American economy’s long history of growth, profitability, and success. For the professional and institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner