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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
with data about the relative importance of courses and (2) to provide faculty with information about how to improve the curriculum and best advise students. The most salient result is that students were strongly advised to study... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Europe. And there are folks who don’t want to export the gas—they want to keep it here so America will have this competitive advantage in manufacturing.” Vietor is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration and has written more than 80 case View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
team that was initially hired by Cleveland's business leaders to study the community's problems. He subsequently served as executive director of Cleveland Tomorrow, an organization of fifty CEOs who delineated new strategies and funded... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake) before wading into nearby Greasy... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
in diverse urban public schools, which forged my passion for racial equity. After graduating from college in Washington, DC, I was founding director of the DC Community Anchor Partnership (DCAP), a public-private network, in partnership... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
distinguished economists who have studied the role of public support in generating innovation in other sectors of the economy. Over the last few years relatively few economists have studied energy innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
software development, where his research reveals the benefits of agile processes and the value of modular designs Elizabeth Christoforetti Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti is the founding principal at Supernormal, an architecture, urban... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Harvard Business School, Edelman recently wrote about Vectus, Ltd., a Sweden-based PRT firm, on his Web site; a case study is available from Harvard Business Press. Other firms in the PRT business landscape include Advanced Transport... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Ponzetto Abstract—Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
them effectively. The case studies are tied together by two broad themes: (1) the determinants and effects of international capital, and (2) policy-makers' management of these flows. The cases approach these themes by exploring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
For Harvard Business School faculty, summer marks the perfect time to catch up on reading for work and pleasure. We asked six faculty what they're looking forward to digging into over the next few months. Jeff Bussgang wo of my books during the “summer of COVID” have... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
on learning. In the future, we need to think about ways to provide more direct international experiences for our students, and for our faculty. One idea might be short study trips that would combine immersion in key regions around the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
Depot has studied deeply how to best deploy their assets in order to satisfy the customer in a way that allows for an excellent return on invested capital. They have also paid very close attention to what is likely their most profitable... View Details