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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

findings may challenge conventional wisdom about the factors that caused and prolonged the Great Depression. In the 1920s, Florida was the site of a real estate bubble fueled by easy credit and advertisers... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Global

Faculty & Research Facilitating faculty research and case development on an international scale Our unprecedented network of research centers and regional offices in key areas of the world enable faculty to... View Details

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Research - Global

Research February 2025 Teaching Material Preparing Business Leaders for an Era of Climate Instability: Understanding and Managing Physical Climate Risk By: Michael W. Toffel and Spencer Glendon In this compelling video, Spencer Glendon,... View Details

23 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

notice a new name.” Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 2022
What Do You Think?

Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

conclude that 'these corporate attributes match the five basic virtues of Confucianism.'" The researchers conclude that “these corporate attributes match the five basic virtues of Confucianism: benevolence... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

question was raised about whether the research cited in the article (centered around Confucianism) fully addressed the issue. Grace Woo commented, “I don’t see Confucianism as religion viewing that as ancient wisdom increases the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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HBS - The year in Review

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review After a tumultuous two years of figuring out how to adapt and thrive in the face of COVID-19, fiscal year 2022 brought... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

crowdsourcing challenge focused on sustainable, circular economy business ideas generated by the human crowd (HC) and collaborative human-AI efforts using two alternative forms of solution search. The... View Details

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

students of learning by the case method. An approach to studying a case, individually or as a group member, for classroom discussion is outlined. Also summarizes the basic characteristics of a case... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Join a growing community of students and alumni committed to thoughtfully crafting their lives. The Overlooked Key to Successful Scale-Ups Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport + More Info – Less Info Conventional View Details

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Mid-US - Global

University of North Carolina at Charlotte. While tackling the challenges in the crowded supplements and energy drinks market, Martin is committed to investing 20% of profits... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

Sooner or later, every company runs into challenges that force them to make tough trade-offs during the innovation process. Harvard Business School associate professor Rory McDonald calls these moments “tensions.” The streaming service Netflix, for instance, has faced... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

genetic insights. Sanso Narek Dshkhunyan (MBA 2024) Daniel Erdosy Business Track Runner-Up We help drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. BEAM Nathan Dass (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

Winning Culture on a Losing Team Scott O’Neil (MBA 1998) , CEO of the group that owns the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and several other sports properties, on why his office thrives even in the face of losing... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds... View Details

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

Before last week’s election, polls and pundits suggested that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was doomed to failure, because it could not attract enough votes from women, who saw him as a misogynist—and worse. Conventional wisdom... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Again and Again

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details

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