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- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
many infrastructure challenges as well. It is one of the rainiest lands in the world, making many of its roads impassable half of the year. There's little electricity generated, about enough to power a small university campus, to serve... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Profile
Arthur Rock
transistor, but Shockley’s quirky anagement style was a turn-off and these scientists were looking for help landing other jobs. They wanted to find a place that would hire them as a group so they could continue their work developing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
in management consulting for 18 months, which was a mistake. I asked my classmates how they were getting on, and the people working in the stock market were having much more fun than anyone else.” What matters: “After a few years of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Financial Economics (forthcoming). Abstract This study identifies the effect of a key cultural dimension—egalitarianism—on a set of international investment outcomes. Egalitarianism expresses a society's cultural orientation with respect to intolerance for abuses of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
worked. Right after graduating in 2000, Rovell landed a job at ESPN.com as its first business-of-sports anchor. He's now regularly featured on the network and writes prolifically for its online magazine. On the surface, Rovell's story... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
then the mecca of American manufacturing. Business, civil society, and municipal leaders also have options in their tool kit regarding land use. This is one of the most powerful—and most controversially applied—techniques in the box. If... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
special benefits package consisting of a 10-year tax holiday (corporate and personal), a 99-year land lease at concessionary rates, grants of up to $750K, no customs or duty taxes, and more. Macedonia’s economy has been stable since its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
1965). "During case discussions, people disputed your conclusions, and you had to defend your thinking. That was very good practice for the future." For Brackenridge, that future included work as a marketing analyst for DuPont and—as she... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
expertise, defensible turf, and organizational support. We demonstrate that these elements must be combined in specific pathways for knowledge-based innovative structures to emerge and embed. These pathways emerge from practitioner networks, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Group Luca de Meo, chief marketing officer of Volkswagen Group, reflects on his time leading the marketing department at Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. In particular, he thinks about the environmental... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
team? Your investors have probably seen many different configurations and can help you get creative if you’re trying to land a key hire or to retain and motivate your current team. Other financial areas where investors can be helpful are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/01/ideos-culture-of-helping/ar/1 January 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “We are only as good as our experiences. I think of every setback as an experience to make me stronger, more marketable and a better executive or entrepreneur. While I... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
need and should not be subject to the vagaries of profit-driven management or the potential manipulation of markets. But it is these same market forces that could well drive crucial changes in water use. In theory, when water becomes... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
http://hbr.org/product/tesco-group-food/an/514022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-023 Mission Produce As the leading distributor of fresh avocados in the U.S., Mission Produce was at a crossroads in late 2013. Avocado consumption was booming and CEO Steve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
stick with practicing medicine. This essay argues that physicians currently in practice could be equipped over time with the management skill necessary to develop and implement new models of primary care. A Choice Prediction Competition for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,... View Details