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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About
Advisers and worked in the New York office of McKinsey & Company. Professor Weinzierl has written on a range of topics in optimal taxation and optimal economic policy more generally. His work in View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
investment banking institution had a staff of 110 and annual revenues of about $8 million. Today, the firm has more than 64,000 employees in offices stretching from New York to Beijing. Revenues last year totaled more than $26 billion,... View Details
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Brandon Graves
and cuisine was just a short train ride away. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? My understanding of leadership was one-dimensional before coming to HBS. I thought of leadership in the formal sense of someone with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
struck Chiofaro that "there was more to life than playing football and having a big neck. I had other options." Enrolling at HBS, he graduated and took a position at Salomon... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
position their projects and themselves," Steenburgh explains. "The pitches take only five minutes, and I tell them that there are no do-overs. We turn on the camera... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
Participant Prepare for a managerial role and position yourself for advancement by learning how to effectively implement strategy. "What I found most valuable were the methods View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
Competition can bring out the best in salespeople, athletes, and participants in hot dog eating contests—but can it make employees more creative? A recent working paper by Daniel P. Gross finds that competition can motivate creative types... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
mentors, they were all accomplished men who offered sound advice in both business and life. “Now that I’m in this position of seniority, I feel a huge responsibility to pay it forward,” says Freyre. “Given... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Valley, bringing his wife and two young children along with him. For Mikitani, the 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northeastern Japan brought back memories of the earlier disaster. This time,... View Details
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Drew Keller
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? We’re at an interesting time in history where the role of business in society is being challenged and the assumptions on which we have built our economic system are being questioned.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
cleaning sewers and servicing machinery as a mill foreman), but that on-course connection helped him land a position at Adams in 1998, where he rose to CEO in 2002. In 2012, Brewer was named president View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
by providing loans for large capital expenses. And finally, we have no debt. In a high-risk business like this, where things ranging from bad weather to national security concerns can wreak havoc with the best of plans, that puts us in... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
difference do angel investors make for the success and growth of new ventures? William R. Kerr and Josh Lerner of HBS and Antoinette Schoar of MIT provide fresh evidence to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
Silence is associated with many virtues: modesty, respect for others, prudence, decorum. Thanks to deeply ingrained rules of etiquette, people silence themselves to avoid embarrassment, confrontation, and other perceived dangers. There's... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
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Brooke Biederman
family, and a whole lot of luck on my side. Slowly, I learned how to eat again, how to read again, how to write again, how to walk again, and yes, how to run again. Before this, I had always been cheerful,... View Details
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
“Women in Steel,” featured photographs by Margaret-Bourke White illustrating women at U.S. Steel plants in a variety of positions traditionally held by men. 28 Harvard Business School’s Baker Library holds 27 U.S. Steel albums View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
expected, an actor's past box-office performance is positively related to the magnitude of his or her impact on revenues. However, the number and, particularly, the average box-office record of other cast members also play a role. In... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
long-term strategy and culture. David Wittenberg led the way in making the argument for an inadequate strategy as a primary cause of the problem. He suggested that bad timing is related to a lack of “strategic frameworks to assess the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
organization was not eligible to receive nonprofit status—which meant donations would not have been tax-deductible and likely caused many potential donors to not contribute. "The One Fund team made it known we would proceed without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding