Filter Results:
(13,953)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(13,953)
- People (75)
- News (3,634)
- Research (8,677)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (37)
- Faculty Publications (7,163)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(13,953)
- People (75)
- News (3,634)
- Research (8,677)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (37)
- Faculty Publications (7,163)
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. He knew the United States must preserve deniability, so he would be abandoned in any life-threatening situation; he did not know that... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios. “The perception of wage fairness affects purchasing intentions” "The perception of wage fairness affects purchasing intentions," says Bhavya Mohan, a doctoral student in the Marketing unit at HBS, who... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
planet at the moment. It is since every dean, every provost, every president particularly outside of the United States has an aspiration, in a university more than just a college, an aspiration to be ranked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a team from Harvard’s School of Public Health took top honors for... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
there's been 45 major fire hydrant recalls the United States. Only half of those have actually been addressed and fixed. “The reason why the other half haven't been fixed is because cities don't know where their fire hydrants are. Our... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
ins-and-outs of retirement savings, creating more than 70 videos on the basics of investing, and lobbying for regulatory changes that would benefit consumers. Puritz testified before the United States Senate... View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a name-matching algorithm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
instead of bringing us together” (Reuters, December 9, 2009). Immelt went on to say that leaders “share a common responsibility to narrow the gap between the weak and the strong. I have taken on the challenge to increase manufacturing jobs in the View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
engineering. After an initial grant of $350 from the Student Association, the station paid its operating expenses through advertising. Besides providing business and technical experience, WHBS’s stated goals were to give students... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
New York magazine lacks in profit and prospects, it makes up for in the social cachet it can bestow on the owner in the media and cultural capital of the United States,” opined the New York Times (December 17, 2003). Well, maybe so, but... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
"changes in firm performance account for only 4 percent of the variance in CEO pay." That said, to what extent can you really argue that a CEO can affect the stock price of a company? There may be some connection, but the state... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
was spotted in 1986 by Alain Gomez (20th PMD), the charismatic chairman of the French electronics giant Thomson, who tapped him as his special assistant. In 1988, Djelic went to the United States to help... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
somehow revive the dormant business, stated a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2001). Seeking a new source of supply, Shearer eventually settled on Trinidad and Tobago, better known as the calypso capital of the... View Details
- Profile
Richard Lou
units and establishing a hotel-development arm. "I became the middleman between my family and key business players, like the bankers and franchisors," says Richard. Part of his job was to translate for his family, but with his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
In Israel, getting into business is not so much a matter of what university you went to but rather what military unit you served in. And that may be the single thing you need to understand about what makes Israel a leading center of... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
certain threshold . . . the state should move to minimize its involvement." Gaurav Goel opined, "I think Galbraith will be more relevant in the first half of this century. . . . For markets to act in coherence with society, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
the ship apart and putting it back together again. It should be getting under way again in the spring, probably without me. I think I’ll be transferring to a shore station next. (JH, ed.) A former ambassador to the Netherlands and a 23-year veteran of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal... View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
question is: are you going to raise rates or cut them?" Rajan said at the beginning of his lecture. "The answer is: I'm not going to tell you. But what I will talk about is the state of the Indian economy." Rajan said that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details