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  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

Abbott's career imprint could be called a "functional career imprint." Baxter generated a disproportionate number of leaders in the biotechnology industry. During the early 1980s, when the biotech industry was just heating up and venture capitalists (VCs)... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

(Ostrom, 1990). Here we extend this claim to the production of man-made artifacts. The design commons induced teachers to volunteer time and effort to communicate their practical knowledge but created corresponding tensions over interdependent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

commercial properties, and planned communities. So as the Rouse shopping center becomes the place of choice for consumers primarily interested in good jewelry or children's clothes, the competing shopping center nearby responds by trying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the company and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

no. 5 (May 2007): 760-776 Abstract Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

When the FTC announced in July a $5 billion penalty and other actions against the company over privacy disgressions, the Federal Trade Commission said it well: “ through at least June 2018, Facebook subverted users’ privacy choices to... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

from participant to participant. In some cases the question was point blank: "Have you done this behavior?" But in others, the question was indirect: Participants had the choice of answering "If you have ever done this behavior, how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2018
  • News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

artist’s personal creative journey. Much of it contains little reference to or inspiration from themes of race, social struggle, or migration; rather, some of the artists chose to comment on events of their time or a sense of identity. Joyner is a founding View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

"global manager," if there is such a thing anymore? "Today, I would argue that you don't put that qualifying adjective in front of manager—we all simply operate in a global environment," Bartlett says. "It used to be that you would make a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

choice after a campus visit—the casual classroom environment and enthusiastic, welcoming students from the African American Student Union (AASU) and the Latin American Student Union (LASO) made her certain that it was where she’d be... View Details
  • November 2022
  • Supplement

Arcos Dorados’ Quest for the Digitalization of Last-Mile Delivery in Colombia (B)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In 2020, Francisco Staton, president of Arcos Dorados’ Caribbean Division, and Héctor Orozco, Managing Director of Arcos Dorados Colombia, were looking into Arcos Dorados’ options to consolidate its food delivery service in Colombia. This time the matter at hand hinged... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Global Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Logistics; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Latin America; South America; Colombia
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  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
  • 31 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

and the choices they made that helped get them where they are today. In addition, be sure to also network outside of your target industry to get exposure to more perspectives and opportunities. Climate change is a highly interdisciplinary... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

art of the deal, replicated the Hazleton model, acquiring twenty companies and amalgamating the industry to create a global capability for the world's pharmaceutical makers. In 1987, with the industry for all intents and purposes consolidated, the two View Details
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

societies—what might be termed leadership with a big "L?" Or does it mean something fine grained and local—leadership with a small "l"? Taxes, Dividends and International Portfolio Choice Authors:Mihir Desai and D.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

startups.” And yet, sustainability has been a consistent theme in Bonita’s choices of corporate boards and investments. She explained, “For my board selections and my investments, I seek innovative products and services combined with a... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

theoretical and empirical investigation of the risks of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and... View Details