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- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
equity shop effectively scooped up Celanese, stripped it of its German identity, and repotted it in the United States nine months later, thereby closing a large valuation gap. And there were other situations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaching. His coauthored research on golfer performance has aided the PGA’s development of a new metric to measure putting skills. Francesca Gino is an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations Markets Unit and teaches... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
military, so I figured I would too," says Earls. "But they decided as a group that someone had to start the family on the college path, and that I was the one to do it. They provided the financial support that made it possible." Earls entered Norfolk View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Cares, and Big Picture Learning, Math Hoops is a fast-paced board game that challenges student teams to solve math problem on a 24-second clock. Now in use in schools across the country and tied to Common Core state standards, the game is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
Force Academy, a running back on the team that defeated Ohio State in the 199o Liberty Bowl, and an Academic All-American. A Rhodes scholar, he earned a doctorate in politics at Oxford. Then he and his wife, Barbara, founded an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Ambidextrous Organization
— and it’s no surprise that few companies do it well. But as every businessperson knows, there are companies that do. These organizations separate their new, exploratory units from their traditional, exploitative ones, allowing them to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
management knowledge fueled revenue growth, more than half of which came from two market-sensitive units — Executive Education and Harvard Business School Publishing. Both units have rebounded strongly from... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
paper. Lost customers lead to untapped dollars. A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9 percent. It's no surprise then that executives in both the United... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
United States for citizens from seven selected countries and, specifically, targeting those of the Muslim faith. The dampening effects of such a ban have become clear very quickly: students (including a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
question. Japan's reliance on industrial policy had already triggered a backlash in the United States with cries of unfair trade practices. With its emphasis on size and dominant market share, Mitsubishi... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
connecting different pools of information. They had to create a new network, from the truck manufacturers to the freezer manufacturers to the pharmacies. What was the state of the US logistics sector as vaccine distribution began in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
of each affected the actions of others, culminating in the “mass hysteria” (another chapter title) leading to the crash. Buy, Lie, and Sell High provides specific suggestions for reforms to the regulation process in the United View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
The Medicaid program provides a much needed health insurance safety net for 52 million of our nation's poor and medically needy, but its price tag threatens the financial stability of the states, growing 9.5 percent in 2004 alone—far in excess of revenues. Fiscally... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the Lewis and Clark Trail combined with two subsequent annual rides — helped raise almost $500,000 for Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Next summer he plans to complete the U.S.A. Four Corners Tour, a two-month, 14,000-mile odyssey that follows the outer perimeter of... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
Levels of Meaning
business? What were the institutional foundations in the United States that allowed for economic growth? What makes the entrepreneurial spirit and history of entrepreneurship in this country unique? These... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
and the United States survey the evolution of multinational banks and offer a framework by which this development can be understood. They analyze the multinational banking strategies of selected countries... View Details
- Profile
Chris Hurst
“Infrastructure remains deficient in the Middle East,” Chris says, “but often there’s a significant economic element in conflict. People frequently view the legitimacy of a state as a function of their economic well-being. I wanted tools... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
of information among doctors, hospitals, patients, and providers; standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of View Details