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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the canal's complicated economic and political history—including the first proposals dating back to 1529, the massive cost overruns associated with digging the canal in the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Perhaps no technology company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. have achieved this success during times of incredible technological transformation, usually... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Business School Case 609-070 An abstract is not available at this time. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609070 Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Harvard Business School Case 509-007 In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
pricing. The September 14, 1998 issue of Advertising Age reports that the percentage of marketers who compensate agencies on billings (media purchases) dropped from 71 percent in 1983 to 35 percent in 1997. Furthermore, the average profit... View Details
Roberto Verganti
Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
from one of Smith's earlier works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that caught the attention of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf and coauthors Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein. In "Adam... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
all that changed. HBS associate professor Robert Huckman, professor Gary Pisano, and research associate Virginia Fuller tell that story in "JetBlue Airways: Valentine's Day 2007," a case taught in... View Details
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
divisive. He even coined a term for the conversion: "Englishnization." "This issue is explosive," says Assistant Professor Tsedal Neeley, who tracks Rakuten's journey in her case Language and Global... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Working PapersUser, and Open Collaborative Innovation: Ascendent Economic Models Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
That's the question that professor George Serafeim set out to answer with the working paper The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting. Coauthored with London Business School's Ioannis... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jan 2018
- HBS Seminar
John Helveston, Boston University
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
studied how across the world, for centuries, different groups of people have been marginalized. I thought I understood racism in America—but I did not. George Floyd's murder and other recent tragic events really brought the problem home.... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
Someone is out to shoot down your best ideas. Do you know how to defend yourself? In their new book, Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, HBS professor emeritus John P. Kotter and University of British Columbia View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
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Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
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George 24 JAN 2024 | Op-Ed Aggressive cost cutting and rocky leadership changes have eroded the culture at Boeing, a company once admired for its engineering rigor, says Bill George. What will it take to... View Details
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details
- 06 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan
Sean Silverthorne: "How to Write a Great Business Plan" has been one of the most downloaded articles on Harvard Business Publishing since you wrote it in 1997. Why do you think you hit a nerve? Bill Sahlman: Writing a business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne