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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
The puzzle, they explain, has to do with the explanation for Japan's extraordinary economic success in the post-World War II period. The country was heralded around the world for creating what looked like "a new and superior form of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with Flatiron School to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship approachable. I came in with this dream, but when I started the program, I realized that it was not far-fetched. It gave me the tools to start. It surrounded me with women and men that were equal parts kind and smart, who... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
At the onset, he was heavily leaning towards the private equity option. However, for Pierre-Jacques it quickly became obvious in his early days at HBS that there was a gap in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Contingencies Driving Cannibalization and Complementarity in Multichannel Retailing (revised) Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
New research from Harvard Business School shows that mass advertising is better at swaying undecided consumers while face-to-face personal selling is more suited at closing the deal for those already leaning toward a particular product.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
judgment accuracy; little is known about the interpersonal consequences of the advice-seeking process. In this paper, we investigate the interpersonal consequences when an advisor believes his or her advice will be ignored. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
quality, or particular excellence in its price?" Reinvention German companies have also had to reinvent themselves, as Porsche accomplished between '93 and the present, he continues. In a sense Porsche... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
load. And as a result you carry a very high cost." Michelin-one-star-rated restaurants in Europe have an average of 36 employees on the payroll, according to the case. D'O keeps a lean crew of 14 by... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)
What was your undergraduate university and major?MIT, Chemical Engineering Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2 deferred admissions process?One of my mentors in college, Professor Barry Johnston, always encouraged me to seek out... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
United States economy, and how innovation in financial services will reduce the friction and barriers in small-business lending, helping more of them thrive. In our Q&A,... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
The challenge then becomes enabling this alignment, which requires the CEO to prioritize based on the mission of the organization. In practice, we find that many leaders have trouble prioritizing because they're View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
have a proposal that seems to lean pretty heavily in one direction distributionally, I think there is going to be a further loss of confidence or buy-in with how the system is working. "I think the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
couldn’t afford, especially when Aaron’s baby was due a week after my start date. Yet, the lean experience has proven to be a blessing. The first thing I saw is that all of us have a deep belief in Brass... View Details
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
production methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian software services... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
and people in the bureaucracy and government sometimes look askance at the private sector, believing them to be pursuing purely private gain." Nilekani is intent on keeping the UIDAI organization lean... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
At the onset, he was heavily leaning towards the private equity option. However, for Pierre-Jacques it quickly became obvious in his early days at HBS that there was a gap in... View Details