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- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
10 million customers in the next nine years. The plan, the article notes, relies on leveraging Rakuten’s 100 million existing e-commerce, banking, and credit card customers. “Using our ecosystem, we can acquire customers at a relatively... View Details
- 08 Jul 2016
- News
So Why Don't You Have Your Dream Job Yet?
There are three forces, says author James Citrin (MBA 1986), that are “at fundamental war with one another” when people are trying to find a job: compensation, lifestyle, and job satisfaction. “So if you think about those three points and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
destination end up being so much less attractive despite the relative absence of this usual litany of investment obstacles? Part of the answer may lie precisely in how these obstacles tilt the playing field between local firms and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
remain a 'reseller,' taking inventory of products from users and reselling them to wholesalers. This means its advantage can only come from scale. The problem then is that Gazelle's direct-to-consumer approach on its buy side places it at a significant scale... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Research Brief: Hear Me Out
their conversational partners will perceive them to be a good listener. In their article, “Are You Listening to Me? The Negative Link Between Extraversion and Perceived Listening,” Zlatev and co-authors Francis Flynn and Hanne Collins report that the one-sidedness goes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Winston to Lead the Global Initiative
first overseas research center was launched in the Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong) in 1999, with additional centers opening in relatively quick succession in Latin America (Buenos Aires), Europe (Paris), Japan (Tokyo), and, most recently, India... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
do that—game on.” “Chicago is a relevant story because it came from a point of relatively little entrepreneurial activity after the fallout from the dot-com crash and managed to develop a vibrant ecosystem,” Meyer said in a post-event... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk. There’s an incentive for the private entities to hold as little capital as possible against their own loan guarantees, and they would lobby to keep capital reserves View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
and the resultant lack of minority role models, is what prompted Rice to develop MLT while still a student at HBS. He realized just how close he had come to missing the opportunity for a career in business, because, despite coming from a View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
WuDunn Photo Courtesy Sheryl WuDunn Girls matter — we take that for granted here in the developed nations, and we all expect our daughters, sisters, and wives to make a difference in the world. But take a moment to think about another... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
www.buildcommonwealth.org. My first outlet for teaching the topic was an executive education program that I cochaired with HBS professor emeritus Dwight Crane for the Credit Union Executives Society. It was a relatively short hop from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
the IBMs or the RCAs of the world to continue to create innovations and job opportunities. Think about the number of firms that wouldn’t be here and the number of technologies that wouldn’t be here without venture capital. The innovation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
about extreme circumstances force students to think outside their usual domains. The aim is for students to draw lessons that they can then carry back to private-sector organizations. As for how the intelligence community is doing, we’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
directors hold large blocks of stock in public corporations, those firms experience increased performance relative to competing firms whose board members lack such significant holdings. "Sophisticated large-block owners are beneficial to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
don't think enough reporters have, especially once they've gotten a few decades into their careers." At Time, Tumulty notes, "one of the great luxuries is that you don't have to cover 'the daily story.' So, for example, two years before... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
in central and eastern Europe, each employing five to 500 software engineers, are often locked out of larger enterprise deals. What’s more, their target clients and projects are relatively small, which means valuable resources are left on... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details