Filter Results:
(125)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(125)
- People (1)
- News (38)
- Research (53)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (8)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(125)
- People (1)
- News (38)
- Research (53)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (8)
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
majority sexual orientations in organizations. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Shifting%20Landscape%20of%20LGBT%20Org%20Research_0d247765-4372-49ed-9aae-dce41aef12b7.pdf August 2013 Foreign Affairs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
example, and can do quite well in foreign languages—not in getting the accent perfect but in building vocabulary and understanding grammar. Studies bear out these observations: people maintain and grow their vocabulary—in their native... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With the aim to standardize communication across borders, the subsidiary changed its native working language... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Europe - Global
active as a Foreign Associate with the law firm Shearman & Sterling in New York in Banking and Finance and as an Advisor to the President of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Vincent speaks five European View Details
- Web
About - Global
research to augment existing courses. 1908 First International MBA students enroll from Paris and Shanghai. Original MBA curriculum includes courses in French, German and Spanish, in anticipation that students will require foreign View Details
- Web
Research Services - Faculty & Research
Writing Group provides foreign language support and business practices. The Directors of Research also offer an occasional faculty “immersion” to provide opportunities for faculty who have spent little or no... View Details
- Portrait Project
Salaar Shaikh
“Excuse me. Are you breaking your fast?” As a freshman in college, I spent a summer learning Mandarin in Beijing. The challenging language program overlapped with Ramadan – my first time marking the holy month away from home in Pakistan.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
rely on inferential variables. A different piece of research that I did in the Managing the Future of Work project found that when technology companies removed a university degree as a job requirement, new language showed up in the job... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
8 The Devil Is In The Details The decisions that managers have to make as part of implementing a restructuring plan are often critical to whether the restructuring succeeds or fails. In the language of economics, implementation is the... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"Rather than discussing topics in the rarified air of investment banking, an industry foreign to many of our students, we wanted to be as universal as possible." Not that it is a simple situation emotionally. Stressed out over... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
of their trustworthiness at the bargaining table. 1. Speak their language Some years ago, an airline that was seeking to go high-tech with its ticketing process invited a number of consulting firms to bid on the project. At the kickoff... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
knowledge emerge across the globe, companies must establish a presence at an increasing number of locations to access new knowledge and to absorb new research results from foreign universities and competitors into their own organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
marketing, having developed Gatorade into a powerhouse national brand by skillfully executing a plan drawn straight from the marketing textbooks. After purchasing the sports drink from Stokely-Van Camp in 1983, Quaker introduced it into twenty-six View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
is designed for foodies, tourists, foreign residents, and anyone who wants to learn more about ancient and modern México, its cuisine, culture, and history. With it, you will: possess a comprehensive Mexican dictionary of food terms with... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion
it was a bit intimidating for interviewees to be approached by a group of foreigners and asked to share their personal healthcare experiences. To make these conversations easier, I began each interaction with a smile, gesture of kindness,... View Details
- Profile
Wombi Rose
How does a person go from naval engineering to producing high-end greeting cards? For Wombi Rose, MBA 2015, the journey took an important turn in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. "There is no better way to get to know your classmates than to be thrown into a View Details
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- Web
General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies for 1977. 1976 William C. Kirby : Received a Harvard History Research Grant for Europe in 1976. William C. Kirby : Awarded a National Defence Foreign Language... View Details