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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
Paul Kennedy examines in his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of Great Powers — issues of imperial overstretch, fiscally, economically, and geopolitically. There are other reasons too. The events of the last ten years — the recent financial crisis, budget deficits, wars,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
must be developed in parallel to create economic value—has helped me rethink the specifics of what kind of space venture I would like to be a part of one day,” says Aboulezz. “HBS teaches us to be leaders... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
That They Are Now Losing Authors:Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Although some have heralded recent political and cultural developments as signaling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
quickly," he observes. Under his guidance, Novartis has been a leader not only in developing new drugs but in making them accessible to those in need around the globe. Dan Vasella has experienced first-hand the anguish of seriously ill... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
be let go. Can companies afford to be choosy in the current economic climate? What methods can managers use to develop existing customers, and identify those who just don't fit? Sasser: Many organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S. outbound FDI — the developed markets of Europe and Japan and the emerging markets of China and India — are filled with capital... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
companies that do business in emerging economies. “After I finished my negotiating role in the Middle East, I thought I’d hang up my spurs and relax,” he relates. “But my children decided that maybe I know something after all, so we View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
reshored factories, or requiring a certain percentage of demand to be available from US or USMCA sources. Those would admittedly be bold moves, notes Fuller, but it’s the kind of thinking needed to have reshoring make real economic sense:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
programs. “Those funds,” says Cox’s Camargo, “are drying up.” The Chinese market is evolving quickly in the face of sun-setting subsidies. Shen, for example, is using technology developed by a German firm he acquired to produce two basic... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
radiates a benign intensity. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution. The second was that it could be a model for other companies in a similar situation. The economic climate in France was difficult, with... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
bias. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 Digital Dark Matter and the Economics of Apache By: Greenstein, Shane, and Frank Nagle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in a stable market to View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
settlement and formally apologizes on behalf of the British government, June 2013 Shortly thereafter, John Hart, the movie producer behind Boys Don’t Cry and Revolutionary Road, bought the rights to develop a film based on Imperial... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
maintaining and adapting this system in future. An important component of technical debt relates to decisions about system architecture. As systems grow and evolve, their architectures can degrade, increasing maintenance costs and reducing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
develop a personal investment blueprint, design a solid financial plan to help you gain number clarity, hire an advisor who understands you and values your voice at the table, interpret the mumbo jumbo of investment language, and pull it... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
deepen and accelerate the development of individual leaders as well as to broaden and strengthen leadership communities within and across organizations. Alongside academic journals, Gianpiero writes regularly for the Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young