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- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
segments to existing products, lowering price by removing features, failing to think through all the technical requirements, neglecting stakeholders, and refusing to believe products created for low-income markets could have global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
inequality? What do you think? Original Article The most pervasive theme of 2011 may well have been that of "inequality." The global "occupy" movement provided a constant reminder of the need to at least revisit a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
delivering professional services would find this course interesting and useful. EE: Leading Professional Service Firms is fast-paced and intensive. How is the one-week course structured to maximize learning opportunities? Lorsch: We've been refining the program since... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
say it in the job title. Don't get frustrated if you're not able to find things that are explicitly called “climate” or “sustainability.” Look at your skill set and your capabilities and find ways that you can apply that knowledge in industry to create an impact. It... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
important, particularly in moments when hope frayed, pessimism sunk in, and dissention threatened. Shackleton always understood that instilling credible hope in his followers was one of his most powerful weapons for accomplishing his mission. Many View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
with New Hampshire Audubon to work on global conservation issues in Costa Rica. What are the keys to success in working on environmental issues in a developing country? Costa Rica is known for its environmental ethic, but even there you... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
two centuries. We evaluate the implications of our estimates for aggregate TFP and per capita income. Our results reveal that, on average, countries have adopted technologies 47 years after their invention. There is substantial variation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
people living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and compare the long-run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global organizations that operate effortlessly across borders. And they find it tough to ensure that their people adhere to values and ethics. The world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
organization years before the misconduct, they experience a compensation penalty. Our results support this prediction. The stigma effect increases in relation to the job function proximity to the misconduct, recency of the misconduct, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
lever through which policymakers affect the speed and nature of innovation in the economy. It is not surprising, then, that the profound changes which have roiled the global patent system over the past 20 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
challenge: keeping Merck’s antibiotic factory running after school closures forced employees with children to stay home. Omar Ishrak, Medtronic CEO, leads a global company of 100,000 people. His greatest challenge currently is ramping... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
regularly advises executives and students on how to tackle these questions. In this indispensable new book, Kaplan shares a specific and actionable approach to defining your own success and reaching your potential. Drawing on his years of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
European winters—on the brain. And he thinks you should, too. Froot, the André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has spent more than 15 years researching how the reinsurance industry—which... View Details
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Creighton Taylor
me to business, because as a business person, you need to adapt to new environments quite a bit.” Even as Creighton majored in music in college, he nurtured his interest in numbers. After graduation, he spent three years in a variety of... View Details
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Ameel Somani
that can be created." After two years at CIBC, Ameel became an associate at Teachers' Private Capital, where he made principal investments in businesses, most notably, Simmons Bedding Company and Munchkin, an infant-products company.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
(think data analytics) as global competition for skilled workers increases. Matthew Breitfelder’s (MBA 2002) transition to the field came midcareer, after stints as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce, a corporate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of Women’s World Banking, developing... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
with people who know what it’s like. Bennett says this panel discussion was the first in a series the HBSAB will produce specifically for alumni who are only 10 to 15 years out from HBS. “Featuring young alumni speakers who are still in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley