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- 30 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa
returned to Kenya for his summer MBA internship and then again after graduating to continue his career. We sat down with Karibu to discuss his experience with the changing landscape in Africa, the growing economy, and the impact that the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
that is still prevalent in many companies," says Quelch. "We develop other words to talk about mental health—we call it 'stress' or call on people to be 'resilient.'" But normalizing the issue in the workplace can create even more View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
you’re doing today will change as you evolve. Don’t give the doctors and hospitals a suboptimal experience on their first try with your service. Don’t let the VC hype force you to expand faster than you should. (I say this as a health... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
deeper, it is apparent that the composition has changed in some dramatic ways. There are more foreign-born CEOs today, religion is no longer a barrier to entrance, education has helped to level the playing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
barriers to entry into the business. Besides enabling many Chinese branded manufacturers to enter the business, the grey market in components unleashed a complementary market of "Shanzhai" makers. Together these firms captured a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
information changes hands, and how easily it can be compromised. Security is vital for the structure of e-commerce and that’s the broader issue: Apple is playing its part. If they’re trying to build and maintain a secure system, we should... View Details
- 05 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about SVMP
made each session remarkable.” – Amir Did SVMP change how you think about yourself and your future? “SVMP confirmed the value of a management degree not only as a certificate of completion in finance and marketing fundamentals, but as a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
home. While both types of visits increased registration, home registration visits had a higher impact than information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and administrative barriers impede registration. Home registration... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
to the emerging literature on open and distributed innovation by demonstrating the value of openness, at least narrowly defined by disclosing problems, in removing barriers to entry to non-obvious individuals. We also contribute to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
research strategies and tools available,” he says. “The event was timed as an early evening event outside working hours and provided a valuable reminder to those of us in Europe that distance is not a barrier to using the Baker Library... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
urban district has cracked the code about how to spread excellence across its entire system. We asked our nine districts what their biggest barriers were in achieving excellence at scale, and they described five categories of management... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
to the first contest. The climate was ripe in 1997. Enrollment in courses like Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management was way up; the Internet revolution — with its low barriers to entry — was in high gear; venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
at certain set levels. That changed everyone's mindset. At about that time, I started a new course on innovating health care because I believed MBAs who were interested in pricing, productivity, and efficiency could be essential as that... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
subsequent agenda, thereby altering resource allocation. The opportunity to delay decisions leads the players to act against their short-run interests by changing the expected decision delay. We characterize delay equilibria and explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
growth, voting rules, and media consumption, vs. individual factors, such as race and education. We use individual-level panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population from 2008 to 2014 and track changes in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
“linguistic expats” who live in their home country yet have to give up their native language in the workplace; “cultural expats” or native speakers of the lingua franca who struggle with organizational values that are more easily transmitted after language View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel