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- 06 Dec 2018
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business applications—everything from platform development to enterprise sales. David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices associated with it, and the changes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
are notably aggressive in their pursuit of research, therapies, and cures. These organizations apply results-oriented business approaches to medical and academic research that in the past would typically move at a stately pace. (Brad... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
story. As a former HBS research fellow yourself, do you think there is enough attention paid by business historians to the business DNA of the enterprises they study? A: I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
here for almost ten years, running a family enterprise that dates back to the 1960s. Along with a few automobile-related businesses in the French West Indies, we are the distributor for Toyota, Suzuki, and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
forceful keynote address, Earl G. Graves, president and CEO of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., and publisher and CEO of Black Enterprise magazine, observed that a silver anniversary connotes "the blessings of longevity which include the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Somerville, Massachusetts, needed advice on how to make the nonprofit more cost-effective, he might have considered attending business school. But he didn’t have to. Harvard Business School came to him in... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
a slow but surer approach to understanding human behavior." Others welcomed the possibility that this work may bring together economists, management theorists, and medical researchers. As Shann Turnbull put it, "The time has come for View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
President & Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, 1962 B.A., Arts and Letters LIFELONG... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
quality metrics are unreliable and thus, recent legislation may result in unintended consequences. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54443 in press Business History Internment as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
enterprising companies, the current threats to market capitalism present vital opportunities. Drawing on discussions with business leaders around the world, the authors argue that companies must stop seeing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria, where, as a recent HBS graduate,... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
view raises questions of whether there will be an adequate supply of such talent. Will impatient Western managers eager to develop Chinese business opportunities delay initiatives until the right people can be found? How high is the cost... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
conclude that business leadership would be wise to push past pride and the false sense of self importance, and include within the decision making process those in the enterprise who know the actual nuts and... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
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Eileen Stephan
challenges MBA students, alumni and other job seekers encounter, and has extensive insight into how businesses approach talent acquisition. Eileen holds a BA in History and International Relations from Boston University. She lives in... View Details