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  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • August 2015 (Revised January 2017)
  • Background Note

Evolving Trends in Global Trade

By: Dante Roscini and Annelena Lobb
The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international trade from the period after World War II to developments in 2010, focusing on shifts in trade theory and policy as well as economic benefits and disadvantages... View Details
Keywords: Trade Negotiations; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Governance; Negotiation; Globalization; Trade; Policy; History; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia; Africa; China
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  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

stability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51049 in press Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy: Economic Reasons of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

unlock such devices? Is our current discussion of infotech security versus privacy a waste of time? What do you think? Original Column The red hot legal dispute between Apple... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • News

To Market, To Market

looking to transform lives by moving primarily smallholder farmers out of hunger and poverty, toward resilience.” These farmers, in more than 30 countries worldwide, says Ferrari, have the potential to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition, of rote learning and educational experimentation, of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

@Soldiers Field

artifacts from longtime professor Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), considered the father of venture capitalism: the original 1957 business plan for Digital Equipment Corporation. Baker Bloomberg’s iconic cupola... View Details
Keywords: Georges F. Doriot
  • December 2008 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

By: David E. Bell and Brian Matthew Milder
In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation joined together to form a new organization, AGRA, to tackle the historic challenge of increasing agricultural production in Africa. Launched with much fanfare and led by former U.N.... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Investment Funds; Food; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa
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  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really liked psychology—and family... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • News

Paving the Way to College

navigate the college admissions process, including test prep, college visits, and working with admissions offices. In this interview, Frankel talks about the origins of the idea and what College Match has... View Details
  • March 2006 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Eldeco: Playing in the Big League

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Siddarth Yog
In 2001, Pankaj Bajaj is considering whether to go forward with a residential development outside New Delhi. Facing an uncooperative local authority, he must determine how to evaluate the risks of proceeding against the potential loss of a golden opportunity to bring... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Construction; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Real Estate Industry; New Delhi
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  • 11 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

Dean's youthful Internet backing failed to generate enough votes at the polls. In the recent New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton's surprise win is attributable in part to her superior grassroots organizing there—the political equivalent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

What are the implications of your book's message beyond Japan? Many other countries emulated Japan, both in government and in business. Some countries modeled their whole... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 2015
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
Two Valmont Industries (an international leader in infrastructure products and services) colleagues, Robert (Bob) Meaney and Richard Berkland hoped to improve the lives of small and medium-sized farmers in the developing world through modern irrigation technology. In... View Details
Keywords: Developing World; Farm; Farming; Small-scale Farmers; Agriculture; Agricultural Production; Water Management; Water; Leadership Skills; Agribusiness; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Leadership; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Ghana; Tanzania; Rwanda
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  • 29 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

Date: May 5-7, 2008 Faculty Chair: Arthur Segel Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Global Change in the Built Environment What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The goals of the colloquium were to... View Details
Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

In 2007 three-quarters of world FDI was located in developed countries. The residual was concentrated in a small number of emerging countries. Large countries with little... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

decrease in herbal patent filing starting in the early 2000s. “We started asking ourselves, why does it have to be piracy?” Based on the surnames of patentees, the researchers found that a disproportionate number View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used experimental methodology, demonstrating that recalling a past instance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne