Northwestern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014) was born in Lagos and educated in the United States, but always wanted to return to Nigeria. And not just because he missed family or... 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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2013
News

From HBO to HBS

affiliate in Hawaii couldn't pick it up," he recalls. "We shipped them tapes of the programming. "Fast-forward to today, HBO has multiple networks with over 100 million subscribers worldwide, only 40 million of whom are in the United... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; HBSO; HBS; faculty; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
News

Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)

positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

this Q&A, HBS professors and strategy experts Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu offer a practical framework for succeeding in emerging markets. Key concepts include: The ambition level of large, fast-growing emerging markets around the world rivals that of... View Details

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

shareholders in both state and private enterprises." No Single Asian Market Mark Newman, vice president and CFO for GM Shanghai, the largest Sino-U.S. joint venture, presented statistics that clarified the corporation's significant... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Web

A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

Advertising media in antebellum America paved the way for all that followed—from magazine ads and giant billboards to television campaigns and internet marketing—and forever changed the nation’s consumer consciousness as the United View Details

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to mega-cap, from the United States... View Details

09 Apr 2019
News

Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their advances can offset the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

financially and operationally ready to support our communities.” United States With jobless rates at Depression-era levels, hunger is a serious issue for many Americans. Feeding America, a nationwide... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

26 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Alex Nelson

During the long, cold winters in her home state of Minnesota, Alex Nelson daydreamed of "a better car heater that would warm up immediately, like a hair dryer." Although she never built that heater, the daydream symbolized her... View Details

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

from the perspective of smart people looking in. When it comes to understanding the state of American competitiveness, I often find that the sharpest insights come from the individuals I meet when I travel abroad. On a recent trip to... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

11 Oct 2012
News

Answering the Doctor's Call

located in Copley Township, Ohio, and the younger Downing wanted to help take the family business to the next level. So instead of medicine, Downing studied business at Bowling Green State University, and later earned his Harvard MBA, all... View Details

Keywords: resumed education; nontraditional students; Health, Social Assistance

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

Joseph Blair

his business unit managed: the famous Bobcat excavator. Yet Joe's experience at another manufacturer – FlexEnergy, a clean-tech company that makes microturbines – inspired “a passion for startups and smaller businesses” that encouraged... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

prominence to the role of dynamic clusters as a key to regional and national economic success. He defines clusters as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field. At the summit, Porter noted that many countries and more... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

units, we found beneficial effects of front-line staff participation and collaboration on organizational performance, as measured by improvement in risk-adjusted unit mortality. However, the positive effects had contingencies.... View Details