Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,862) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,862) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 15 of 1,862 Results →
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

America’s foremost firms, illustrate alternatives to America’s largely laissez-faire approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51000 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2015 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

Team Rubicon: Bridging the Gap from Startup to National Organization

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Dan Nidess
Team Rubicon, a military veteran volunteer disaster relief organization, has experienced significant success in attracting attention and support in its first four years of operation. The challenges of managing the volunteer base, the cost of responding to disasters,... View Details
Keywords: Growth Strategy And Execution; Disaster Relief; NGO; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Non-Governmental Organizations
Related
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

and customers. Tetra Pak focuses its growth on developing nations where it feels there is room for a valuable business, and it attains leading market positions. Shows how the foreign firm must cope with difficult domestic situations where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2019
  • News

Is Jeff Bezos untouchable now that he's taking on National Enquirer?

  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

it comes not from mimicking competitors' best practices, but from seeing functional connections—choices that are part of a connected whole. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51850 October 11, 2016 Proceedings of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

This article was originally published by HBS Recruiting: Insights & Advice. Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation

By: James K. Sebenius
When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments -- of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc. -- should be... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Process; Societal Protocols; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation
Related
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

World By: Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Eric D. Werker Abstract—The conflict following the Arab Spring is not the first wave of civil war in the Muslim world in recent time. From the mid-1980s to the end of the century, an average of one in 10... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

knew of them. The first N.C.R. sales script was the creation of Patterson's brother-in-law Joseph H. Crane. "How I Sell National Cash Registers," which became known as the Primer, contained... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • Blog Post

Memoirs of an International First Year Student

As an Indian national who was working in the Middle East in the petroleum industry, my decision to apply for an MBA was fueled (pun intended) by two reasons. One was the obvious need to get a business perspective after staying in the... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

The first MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID joint degree programs are 10 years old! 89% of HBS | HKS joint degree alumni have told us that they worked in a role allowing usage of both degrees. Learn more about a few members from the Class of 2011... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

  "Capitalism came in the first ships." —Carl N. Degler, Out of Our Past No nation has been more market-oriented in its origins and subsequent history than the United States of America. The very... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

to Boston and launched our first BollyX classes. Partnering with boutique gyms, national gym chains, and dance studios, we quickly found that not only was there a tremendous appetite for Bollywood workout... View Details
Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment
  • 21 Nov 2018
  • News

The History Of The First Thanksgiving — No, Not That One

  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

examined how decision makers’ own expertise influenced reliance on algorithms. Experts in national security, who regularly make forecasts, relied less on algorithmic advice than lay people did. These results shed light on the important... View Details