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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

infections Synthetic rubberx Influence: High 50 1950 s 19 Television sales expand dramatically Transistors used in portable radios and calculators Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Man walks on the moon Color TV market grows Microchips... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

200 employees at the sustainability nonprofit Ceres, working to mobilize the most influential investors and companies to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. As a well-known global thought leader on climate change, Lubber... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

announcement at the Google I/O conference in front of seven thousand attendees, with more than one million people viewing on live streaming. Google’s strategic focus, Pichai said, was shifting from mobile to “AI first.” The announcement... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging global economy.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

to answer a few questions about your reading preferences? We know you’re busy, so we'll be brief. Take our survey   Establish a high-level product roadmap that extends no more than 12-18 months; you have no idea how your products or the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific groups and economic mobility for others.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

Tequila Mobile SA, a mobile gamers developer, publisher, and service provider, had to make some important strategic decisions. Tequila Mobile SA had already decided to shift to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

  PublicationsEmotion-induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads Authors:Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters Publication:Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming) Abstract This study shows how advertisers can leverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

effective way to mobilize nonvoters and persuade those who are undecided.” Getting the ground game right Candidates who accept the limited benefits of TV and shift resources to in-person outreach—whether by the candidate, a proxy, or a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

Flows in the Global Economy Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—We review the rapid development of digital labor markets that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

History Matters

journalists to convey the accurate condition of the financial system, and with priests, ministers, and rabbis, to urge calm. In essence, Morgan, Stillman, Baker, and Cortelyou worked to resolve the classic challenge of quelling financial crises, which economists call... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Present Day , London, Routledge, 1996 Notes: 1993 Data was reported in 1992. 2003 Data was reported in 2000. Download Data Set in Excel Mobile Phone Subscriptions per 100 People The World Bank, “Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (per 100... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

were deciding whether to participate in a Series B round for PEGAfrica, which sold solar home systems in Africa via pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers to make small payments via mobile money to pay off the solar... View Details
  • April 2009 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

Skyhook Wireless

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Ted Morgan, the founder of Skyhook Wireless just received a call from Steve Jobs of Apple asking for a meeting. Ted must decide how to prepare for a meeting that could finally give Skyhook an anchor customer. Ted and his team have worked for three years to build a new... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Technology Industry
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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Task Force

world following China’s path. “It was an incredibly powerful wave that I wanted to ride—to build a digital business that would help people in emerging markets use their smartphones to connect to markets and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade
  • February 2021
  • Case

Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)

By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra and Christian Godwin
In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance... View Details
Keywords: Iphone; Encryption; Data Privacy; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics; National Security; Law; Law Enforcement; Leadership; Markets; Safety; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Civil Society or Community; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; United States; China; Hong Kong
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  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

mobilized to accomplish. Reassess available resources. The relaunch is a time to reexamine information, budgetary resources, and networks that will help the team advance its goals. Understand members’ constraints. A relaunch is an ideal... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2012
  • News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

of backlash fostered by a long period of neglect of globalization’s effect on labor markets worldwide. Globalization takes many forms: common markets; free flows of workers including refugees and migrants; and multinational organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing