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- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- Web
Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential Politics - Course Catalog
Business School graduates are in a unique position to help solve the problem - as candidates for elective office, as private sector leaders who actively contribute time and money to candidates with high integrity and sound policy, and/or... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
nations have improved since 1980, the new instruments are failing to satisfy the interests of either host countries or their business partners. Protections can be improved by developing a real consensus on the part of investors' home... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
individuals to recognize and embrace contradictions—increases creativity. In four laboratory studies using different creativity tasks and different manipulations for eliciting paradoxical frames, participants who adopted paradoxical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
diagnosing whether a company is trapped in active inertia, selecting the right commitment, giving it traction, and avoiding mistakes that commonly derail transformation efforts. Sull maintains that inaction is rarely the cause of an... View Details
- Profile
Mariano Bomaggio
no real experience of how C-suite executives think." His Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) course offered a different perspective on executive leadership. "I realized how much the culture of a company influences... View Details
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
from those present." 81 Edwin Land remained dedicated to the science and the art of creating a transformative photographic process that would capture the imagination of amateurs and earn the recognition of professionals. "The criticism leveled at the Land system was... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
controlled by code. And this has all happened at the hands of a relatively small group of people, with largely homogenous backgrounds. As more people, and especially ones from more diverse backgrounds, gain the ability to manipulate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
between participants. Elements of what makes the case method great need to be in every online course. You have to vary activities frequently, or people get bored very quickly. Lastly, I think there has to be a thread of storytelling in... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
economic battlefield, emerging markets like Russia -- where Nestlé is active -- represent valuable new territory for the highly competitive consumer foods business. Nestlé, the world's largest packaged-food company, has always emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
Kathleen Hebert
put what she has learned into practice. "Even in a place with as much institutional power as HBS, you can have a real impact on people's experiences." As a Section president, Kathleen says, "It's the first time I've had to... View Details
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Fred Smith
Fred Smith comes from an impressive of line of entrepreneurs. His grandfather founded what would become the largest tour company in Jamaica. Fred's father created his own tour company, then extended the family's interests into real... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor, providing capital and working with portfolio companies to improve their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The Rate and Direction of Inventive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
distraction: We fiddle around the edges thinking we're making a real difference (and getting accolades), while the planet inexorably warms. The reality is that even if one company eliminates its carbon footprint entirely—as Microsoft... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 21 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand
your personality, the real person behind your personal brand; and 3) it shares your motivations, why you do what you do. Make engagement a regular habitThe digital world offers many shiny temptations and distractions. Grinshpun encourages... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
in the world is crazy." It's evident in labor markets, where the case of India and the software industry is just one example of how incredibly active things are right now. "Of course, the idea market is what scares us all,"... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
following six key activities that achieve, then propel, their success. 1. Planning. They develop a family strategic plan—usually with the help of trusted advisors—to specify their goals and values and clarify how they will achieve those... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to... View Details