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They shared how their deep connections with their land and their families made it hard for them to simply pick up and move to another place that might have better economic opportunities. They helped us understand how much the hope of decent jobs in their View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

affect it? A: The kind of technology transfer my coauthors Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, and I study in our paper occurs when a parent of a multinational company provides information about industrial products or processes to an... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

being that more money can then go to actual programs. So an organization might report, “We spend 6 percent on fundraising, whereas the industry average is 12 to 14 percent.” That’s typical, but beyond that, we don’t know how the other 94... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

23 Feb 2011
News

A Capitalist in China

Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it is an economy a century behind... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

21 May 2021
News

See Us Unite for Change

be pieces offering solutions of what you can do to be an ally. In addition, you will laugh, you will dance for joy, you will cry. You will feel the emotion that is heartfelt from the performers about the love for our community and our... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Apr 2002
News

Just Super

Kraft told the Boston Globe (February 6, 2002). "To see people of all backgrounds cheering for the team, we've accomplished part of our dream of being able to bring the community together." The organization's senior vice president and... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

Risk, Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. Read the full abstract. Competing in the Age of AI by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani In... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2003
News

Service with a Smile

unsatisfied, they need to have a means of communicating their emotions.” Interestingly, when employees are asked to amplify certain positive emotions — to deliver a product with a smile, for instance — their job satisfaction increases.... View Details

Keywords: Laura Morgan Roberts; Stephane Cote; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

feelings and attitudes. "It encouraged me to be more independent," Belkin continues. "In a way, I think it fertilized my entrepreneurial leanings. I also believe it made me more community oriented. As a result, I wanted to take what was... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

is to show students as many components of the industry as possible, as well as the management and entrepreneurial skills required to be effective in this field. "We cover everything from small-scale startups on Beacon Hill or Moscow to... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

definitely kept the pressure on the administration. We also had in mind elective courses that would help us understand why things were as they were in the black community and to strategize how we could change that. With the launching of... View Details

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

in India. During the 1990s, she recalled, "we had coalition governments, no stability in politics, high inflation and a high interest rate environment." In 2001, she added, "the entire banking system collapsed." Yet these were exactly the years when the Sabancı Group,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new initiatives in B2C... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

this was about managing an institution. McArthur saw HBS as essentially a small community — one that a leader could easily get his or her arms around. But equally, it was about McArthur himself: a warm and generous man who makes friends... View Details

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency department visits and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16185 Cases & Course MaterialsMicrofin Michael Chu and Enrique KramerHarvard Business School Case 309-126 The case presents the management dilemmas of a new institution in an undeveloped microfinance market in Latin America.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

square-foot retail complex, a hotel, and the Kodak Theatre, the future home of the Academy Awards. The second project was a mixed-use development, located on Sunset and Vine. This property had suffered a bad run of previous development attempts, and the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

not formally a part of the negotiations, I do think this day had a large impact on my experience at COP. It brought the climate change and health community together as many experts attended from around the world and brought health... View Details

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

Transforming Verizon 2015: Going Above the Network n 2015, the Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications reflects on his four years leading the company and considers strategic repositioning for the future. Meanwhile, a rising leader... View Details