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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

href="https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990149981700203941/catalog">States of India (CMIE): India state level statistics (users must registers at the site for full access). View Details

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their employers' levels of commitment to them... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

accountable for the resulting weak talent pool. In A.T. Kearney's 2004 survey on the effectiveness of corporate governance, participating board directors universally acknowledged the importance of leadership development and succession... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

CEOs' personal assistants to track their bosses' activities with time-use diaries. Research was conducted by Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School, Luigi Guiso of the European University Institute, and Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

to move from a level one manager to a level two. With that in mind, you could start developing those skills and demonstrating them. Some organizations also make it a point to communicate to employees that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

around the skills they would need to succeed in their next role. “Organizations should spend a bit of time putting on paper the skills required of people at each level,” said Fitzpatrick. “At my prior organization, it was very clear what skills you needed to be... View Details

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2013
News

Leading the Way

Photos by Russ Campbell “An investment in the School is ultimately an investment in a better world—one led by alumni.” —John Hess “HBS graduates are in every part of the economy, in every industry, and in every geography. I believe we can effect change.” —Nitin Nohria... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to the next View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

behavior at the University of Pretoria in which she is currently enrolled. While Meyer is familiar with the demands of being a student - she holds a BA in sociology and communications from the University of... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

than 90 faculty members at HBS have some connection to the initiative—doing research or teaching a course that relates to the themes of social enterprise, for example. Many of our students are deeply engaged—we have eight different student-led clubs related to social... View Details

21 Jan 2014
News

Climbing to New Heights

In reaching Everest's summit, Petzel had achieved all three goals, two months to the day before his 40th birthday. "It helps if you're a Type-A personality, because of the level of perseverance required," he says. "What I enjoy most is... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

20 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Exploring Cleantech at HBS

Several HBS students cross-register for Energy Ventures every fall, participate in the Clean Energy Prize, and join joint university initiatives through the MIT Energy Club. MIT Joules is an awesome group of women interested in energy... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

“excess” cash holdings. The definition of excess cash holdings will be critical. But such levels easily could be defined relative to industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Implementing a... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

School's ongoing International Seminar Series. This area of research is of universal interest. After all, a basic question that any multinational business would like to answer is this: Is there a single business model or set of best... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2024
News

The Road Less Traveled

Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

education in the 21st century. The primary objectives of The Harvard Business School Campaign are to: Inspire significantly increased levels of participation and engagement among alumni Inform, identify, and engage the next generation of... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale... View Details