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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
executives live it. And I think our opportunity there, more than anything else, is that we, the leaders—we have to be what we say we want to be. Talk is cheap and talk is easy,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
$16 billion. On a recent trip to the firm’s New York offices, William Fung, executive deputy chairman, took time out to talk about past challenges and the brothers’ unique approach to managing the company. When you and Victor returned to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
NXTHVN: “As you think about that vertical integration, the gathering space really creates the network. If you’re good at what you’re doing, you can build the ties that allow this person to talk to that one—and then stuff happens, and new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
good ROI.” Diniz began to brainstorm with Paulo Puterman, a friend studying to get his PhD in biotechnology at the University of São Paulo who also happened to be focused on the highly efficient elephant grass/electricity equation. “After a year of View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
unclear whether there is a business model that can turn Wi-Fi into profit. A panel of telecommunications industry pioneers came together to talk about the larger issue of the competitive landscape in broadband wireless, but most of the... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population shortage that meant cheap labor was running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
co-creation of markets and value, multinationals without firm-specific advantages, and born-global firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50242 November 13, 2015 Harvard Business Review If CEOs Care About the Long Term, Why Don't They... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
the footwear industry. So when a well-respected industry leader asked to talk about a merger, Cabot had to admit that with her "crisis of confidence," it might just be time. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
soon found myself falling.Long-distance was (and is) surprisingly easy. The eight-hour time difference between Boston and Nairobi always feels small and inconsequential with him. We have become masters of Netflix parties, finding cheap... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
verge of extraordinary economic growth. And with GDP growth, people will start to travel. Except back then, there was no market segmentation, whatever-- when you talk about traveling to China, everybody had the same itinerary, the same... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
talked about for fear of upsetting more conservative elements.” The envisioned reforms, not the least of which include further privatizations and increased layoffs, will cause considerable strain on the Chinese system if carried out too... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
for electricity, we would eventually be talking about one core damage event every calendar year, unless we can substantially reduce the failure rate with new designs. “The effects of these nuclear disasters, while no doubt tragic, seem... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
life when he was a child was a life and death matter in the most literal sense. We're not talking about the life and death of a firm. We're talking about the physical survival of a human being and of his... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
contaminated. “We had been following the dog food recall, which centered around contaminated wheat gluten, a cheap dog food ingredient used primarily in supermarket brands,” explains Gisholt. “But we were totally shocked to discover that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the future, but with needs that clamor for solutions right now. The leaders of cities feel the heat, literally and figuratively: “Mayors can’t just talk about goals for the year 2050,” Bloomberg says, citing a date often used for... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
social network, and in the organizations we find ourselves working and leading. Calling out racism wherever we see, hear, or experience it goes above and beyond cultural competency or diversity and inclusion. This means talking to our... View Details