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Marla Malcolm Beck
there.” At Berkeley, Beck majored in political economy and was enthralled by comparative economics. After graduation in 1995, she joined McKinsey & Co. where her leadership qualities flourished. On one major engagement with an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
rush to “go international” was fast and furious when we came on the business scene. “Emerging markets” was the new catchphrase. The robust Japanese economy was the world's envy, and sushi bars were the place to take your date. If you... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
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Art Nature Business
Business School, 2008.5 Rosemary Laing originally trained as a painter in the late 1970s. She began working in the medium of photography in the late 1980s. Although she initially experimented with digital manipulation as a way to... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets by View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
2018 Innovation Policy and the Economy The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century By: Bagley, Nicholas, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—On the 35th... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
lending portfolio would have to move to the productive sector of the Bolivian economy by 2018, and these loans would have a controlled interest rate of 11.5%. How would BancoSol meet these targets, fulfill its mission, and remain... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
events. "In America and around the world, the public has lost trust in business," says Hess. "Business and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,”... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
these periods of uncertainty as motivation to innovate, taking digital technology into new territory. Pixar Studios, MSNBC, the Xbox, and the phenomena of "infotainment" all arose from the ashes of the corporate controversies.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
recognized the urgency for a change in its business model from the traditional “Windows first” strategy, with its reliance mainly on the sales of on-premises licensed software. Thus, the company began to shift its strategy to an “AI/cloud first” strategy to capture the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and competitiveness of the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
about the idea of the global economy returning to "business as usual." On the HBS Working Knowledge Web portal, Professor Emeritus James L. Heskett asked readers reflecting on September 11 to ponder "the implications of a possible loss of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
January–February 2017 Harvard Business Review The Truth About Blockchain By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Contracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven’t kept up with the world’s View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
between the real and digital worlds prevents us from fully exploiting the volumes of information now available to us. Augmented reality (AR), a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-012 Turkish Economy Bank and Fortis Bank: Managing a Complex Merger Following the announcement of the merger of the Turkish Economic Bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
School prepared for the next century. We assembled forums of a dozen or more executives in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the US, gave them a package of graphic projections of the global economy in 2030, and spent an evening and a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107029 How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising Harvard Business School Note 707-458 What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace