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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
growth countries also tended to show worse performance on a number of business environment and governance indicators. From this analysis, lessons are drawn for Liberia. We conclude that with a continued inflow of aid, foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment analysis. Written specifically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
process questions that will help you identify the normal behaviors for particular jobs and what employees should and shouldn't be doing on their systems (such as sharing passwords). Because even the best security policy will be ineffective if users and View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Donatella Versace. It is so much fun planning for Burning Man, organizing, thinking, scouring thrift shops. That's all part of the Burning Man experience. This idea of radical self-reliance means you don't buy a costume in a costume shop.... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Leaders, edited by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clark, 170-171. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2008 No abstract is available at this time. Cases & Course Materials Arcapita-2002 Harvard Business School Case 209-023 tIn 2002, Arcapita Bank,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
substantially, NASA would have to place much greater emphasis on technology re-use, developing designs that were expected to fulfill multiple missions. In this respect, borrowing some ideas from business could help. For example, NASA... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
review. And I think that would be my biggest suggestion: don’t think that more is better. In this case, it is not. Q: Very helpful as I think about planning my next family vacation. Thales, thank you for joining me today. A: My pleasure... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
leadership. They want to know how you figured it out when the shit hits the fan, right? DM: Right. JI: So the financial crisis was brutal. It's hard to describe how tiring, how embarrassing, how awful I felt every day. And our business... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Welcome to the inaugural episode of Skydeck, the Harvard Business School alumni podcast. I'm Dan Morrell, editor of the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and I'll be your host. We're very... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Publisher's link: http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-3-319-04288-6 September 2014 Harvard Business Review Contextual Intelligence By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract—The author has come to a conclusion that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
business deal or making plans for a joint vacation, friends may tell you that they are perfectly happy with your proposal even if they have private misgivings. For this reason, negotiations between friends... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
passion. It’s just my passion is the technology, not the problem. That’s a great way of doing things. Many really good businesses have been built up on that. The other way, that’s more familiar to me, is saying, I have a problem and I... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
Lawmakers, following public opinion rather than scholars' theories, have put in place very little tagging. Does this mean it's time to bury the Utilitarian approach? Not quite, says economist Matthew C. Weinzierl. The Harvard Business... View Details
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
scientific problem solving? Yes, and it comes from an unexpected and unrelated corner of the universe: open source software development. That's the view of Karim R. Lakhani, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School with an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The ship is now in dry dock, and I’m... View Details