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19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

get to the point where we're really honest ourselves. Took me a while to get there—when I can admit my mistakes and be honest. Because then once you do that, then you can be anything you want to be. DM: Chad, what are your thoughts on the View Details

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

be shared. This is not a commercial venture. Our purpose is developing research as well as course development that will be available for teaching at HBS and at other institutions throughout the world. "We also hope to have an impact... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

What's your story? Gana: I grew up in Cameroon, in a town called Douala. My grandfather made the importance of education and how it impacts your life front and center. I grew up with my parents working, my dad in the petroleum industry,... View Details

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

Global Partner (GP) company with a product or service challenge for students to address. The course culminates in a one-week immersion at the company’s location during which students meet with their GP and local consumers. The following... View Details

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

strategies and organized their businesses. The contributors to this new book bring out this rich diversity on a much broader canvass. Q: What have you learned about the success and impact of businesses around the world? A: This book shows... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

their hybrid-fiber-coaxial (HFC) network lose out to the All Fiber Network (AFN) developed by the electric power companies in concert with RCN-inspired entrepreneurs. No, wait. It's 2010, and the channels are controlled not by any one... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

research create a domino effect that has an impact on all stem-cell inquiry, beyond embryonic work. Young scientists fear inadequate funding and uncertain career paths. Private investors and entrepreneurs, for their part, steer clear... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

ownership and control of 3,694 firms in 22 Western European and East Asian countries during the period from 1996 to 2008, we find that the cost of debt financing is significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

Chinese entrepreneurs educated or trained in the United States remained here to start their companies if they could do so. In Beijing, we met a number of these entrepreneurs who are choosing instead to be based full-time in China, even if... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession.... View Details

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their product lines. ChemChina is a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

can achieve, which businesses they typically involve, what structures companies can choose from, and how to implement divestitures to maximize financial benefits. Organized into sections dedicated to strategy, structure, and... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects could have the greatest View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

27 Mar 2019
News

Life Is a Startup

to do some of the things that we want. A lot of people who are graduating from business school, they might dream about making an impact on the world through working for a nonprofit, like the social enterprise side of them, or that they... View Details

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

with a comparison of two different systems under which he worked, preferring pay for performance "based on my direct impact on profit, relationship with my client, project team performance and development of individual members of my... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

a me-centric view of life, then what seems rational to me as an individual may appear irrational in the context of social norms." Michael Linz asked to what extent a response to the question relies on how we frame the problem? As Jim Geisman put it, "We've... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

Summing Up There's no need to rethink important economic constructs just because of the growth of the Long Tail phenomenon and its impact on demand and supply. Or is there? That was part of the debate that occupied respondents to this... View Details