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- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Oasys Water: Balancing Strategic Partnerships & Financing Decisions Oasys Water had developed a proprietary water treatment technology based on an innovative forward osmosis process that could remove dissolved solids from water more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
people and have implications for the use of technological algorithms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52499 Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors By: Viceira, Luis M., Zixuan... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side). Going all the way back to the mid-1980s, the Chinese government has been mapping a pathway for the country to become a modern economy possessing core technological... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that are made in that process? “The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
moves itself. According to industry observers, Merck intends to use this period in which its competitors are busy with postmerger integration to improve its position through aggressive marketing and other initiatives. Make Friends. Another alternative to the mega-deal... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
crisis nor as a necessary cause of future problems. In particular, I do not share the concern that a government plan would use its scale to lower costs to a level that would drive private plans out of business. First, a large number of... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
Diversity in the Workplace Harvard Business School Case 407-029 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407029 Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
ownership in a small group of investors—reflecting the smaller subset of investors who place value on environmental benefits, such as funds that have some green or social investing orientation. While the difference in return is admittedly small, it could be a factor in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
public education linking an employer, the New York City K-12 public education system, and the city's two-year colleges. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was a new concept, a six-year high school running to grade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the impact of self-service technology (SST) usage on customer satisfaction and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor protections limit the scale of multinational firm activity, increase the reliance on FDI flows, and alter the decision to deploy View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets By: Lee, Malinda S., Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern, and Mark D. Hornstein... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
time somebody had done something new with locomotives was 50 years before I was born, so I had never had this challenge of, oh, there are so many new things to do we don't know which to do next," Huber remembers. "But the View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to transformative regulatory changes. New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
Jones notes. As technology industries scale up, they rely on innovation to create strategic advantage and wring out inefficiencies. But it's difficult to coax efficiencies and more productivity out of wind... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
inventions and IP (by selling it to IV) and then using its scale and aggregate IP portfolio to extract revenues from potential licensees (usually technology companies). Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
determine whether they think the company is ready to scale those efforts or whether it is premature to do so. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813107-PDF-ENG Longtop Financial Technologies (D)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne