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06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

Can a Platform-Based Tech Giant Be Broken Up? The answer to this month’s question of whether platform-based tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google should be broken up was a resounding “no.” “TD in FL” put it succinctly with one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

the country was producing only 10 percent of the world's watches. Yet Switzerland has reemerged as the global leader of watch exports (by export value), due to a newfound... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

from suppliers to procure a new product or service, it may be most effective to cast a wide net at first, but then bound the competition to a smaller bake-off to spur the most original results. “In a procurement setting, you want to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

existence since 1694 and are currently in use in a host of countries around the world. They blend elements of lotteries and savings programs. In particular, these products... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

2020
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Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective

By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones

This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India

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06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Summer Associate at Izuba Energy Izuba Energy is a leading developer of renewable energy in Fragile States in Africa. Izuba’s projects are often first-in-class and allow industrial partners to produce in African View Details

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Shira Asa-El

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After over seven years of military service, going to business school was a step toward my ultimate transition to the private sector as well as an opportunity to live in a foreign View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

students to connect via an untraceable off-campus phone number. Those founding members launched what would become a decades-long tradition—a community within the community. The group’s name, originally borrowed from a similar group at... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

tesserae. The Tethys mosaic originally was submerged in water, created for a pool in an Antioch bath building. Visitors surely admired its central image of the sea goddess Tethys, a fitting subject for a... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

Today, the most innovative leaders aren’t the conformers. They’re the bold individualists who carve their own paths. So learning to embrace one’s inner “badass” is the new key to success, say Harvard Business School faculty Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

some brighter future a UFP (United Federation of Planets) to fight back against the FAANGs.” His comment suggests a question: Can single nations counter the threat of surveillance capitalism? What do you... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

temporary salary cut and that Aon’s country leaders had worked together “to determine the most equitable way to apply a temporary salary reduction to our broader colleague base and developed a tailored approach based on a set View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

January–February 2018
Article

Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality

By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat

More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change.
Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details

Keywords: Inclusive Growth; Sustainability; Social Impact; Business Strategy; Shared Value; Impact Investing; Inequality; Corporate Governance; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Execution; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Investment

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02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

Development Indicators, we identify 33 country episodes of double-digit growth since 1960. The narrative of each episode is presented and key drivers View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Dillon House | About

& White as part of the original 1920s campus plan. Construction was delayed until 1965, however, during the tenure of Dean George P. Baker. When it first opened, the... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Turning Point: Listen to the Music

Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

a substantial amount of capital in a US enterprise. Eligibility Open to citizens of countries with which the United States maintains a treaty of... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

paradigm behind global value chains, generally a production network, suggests that firms should outsource to the countries with the lowest overall costs. (Firms could potentially source particular intermediate inputs from only one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

the original home of Brigham Young. Family Business In 1986, Roy turned over the presidency of Zions Bancorporation to Harris, who, at 32, had already spent half View Details

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