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10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

managers were women. Google’s disclosures led other major tech companies to follow suit. Apple (98,000 employees) and Twitter (3,300 employees), for instance, reported similar overall percentages: about 70 percent men and 30 percent... View Details

Keywords: April White

Fast Answer

Real Estate Prices by City

How to find office & residential rental prices by major city worldwide. You may begin with: Moody’s Analytics CRE - Search millions of real estate data points that cover every commercially zoned property in the U.S.... View Details

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

their focus to developing countries, which have undertaken ambitious and dramatic infrastructure projects in recent years. India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway received new sections and major upgrades between 2001 and 2006, when 95... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

world in a way that fits the new realities of the global economy, fosters leadership, and uses citizen-diplomats to befriend moderates in troubled regions and business networks to ensure success in the major emerging economies; and (6)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

be an island apart from other firms. They must work with other firms to develop and exploit new technologies. Because this coordination process can be quite difficult, a variety of mechanisms have sprung up to facilitate this process. One of the View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

01 Jan 2010
News

Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986

Decker has put her analytical skills to work as a director of three major companies — Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, and Costco — and as a trustee of Save the Children. Her interest in entrepreneurship led her back to HBS, where she served as... View Details

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

occasional cases, to be brought in to close a major sale. The hero salesman does not usually make a good general manager or CEO. Second, no CEO—especially one with a marketing background—should spend time with customers as a way of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

05 Apr 2004
What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

Summing Up In the end, M&A is about buying more volume. It is a flawed process, invented by brokers, lawyers, and super-sized, ego-based CEOs." With this comment, Ellis Baxter summed up the thinking of the majority of those... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

institutions and undertakings. The apparent level of student and faculty interest was relatively low, but our belief was that there was significant latent demand. The apparent level of student and faculty interest was relatively low, but our belief was that there was... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

10 Jul 2024
News

Next Level

VentureBeat Lab, a new way for brand partners to collaborate through creating custom content, which grew sales and partnerships by 400 percent within six months of launch. She has established partnerships with major players such as... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

Profile

Raymond Hwang

Why spine surgery? “Spine surgery has an appealing and somewhat unique set of characteristics. There is a great deal we have yet to understand about spine-related disorders, making the practice and research of spine care both challenging and dynamic. The vast View Details

Keywords: Services; Entrepreneurship; Health Care

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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

about how to address society’s major challenges. Taught in HBS classrooms, these cases reveal the dilemmas and strategies involved in aligning business practices with societal needs. Scroll for more >>> Northvolt: Building batteries to... View Details

09 Jan 2020
News

Advancing Change

that change may be taking place somewhere beyond what you currently see. You have to be out there to see it. The new CEO in one of America’s major Fortune 20 companies encourages his executives to do at least one thing that’s new and... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Up by the Roots

39,000-square-foot processing facility. It stretches into branch offices and warehouses serving six major Chinatowns across the United States and Canada, two offices in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and a wholly owned subsidiary in Nanjing... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Jun 2014
News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

The question for us is about next steps: Do we go deep in small and medium-sized markets where we know our product works well? Or go wide and try to cover more territory quickly, including the biggest major cities?" The Answers: Stay... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

presentation that outlines the major initiatives currently under way at HBS. The presentation is being designed so that a club officer or a member of the board can deliver it with ease at club sessions and other meetings. In addition, the... View Details

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

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the World Bank Development Research Group, to study 14 major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2017
News

HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age

Taylor) HBX Meets Demand for A Range of Learners “CORe took some of the most intimidating content for a non-business major like me and delivered it in an active, engaging way.” Sheneka Balogun, CORe graduate, nonprofit manager “CORe took... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research

rare business books and documents, with manuscripts dating from the 15th century. The desire to facilitate easier access to this treasure trove of information recently inspired a major gift to the School. The de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation,... View Details