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  • February 1985
  • Case

Business Research Corp. (B)

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of a set of related decisions confronting the management and directors of Business Research Corp. (BRC) in April of 1984. BRC needs more capital to finance continued development of the market for a full-text database comprised of Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Finance; Capital Structure; Capital; Goals and Objectives; Conflict of Interests; Business Plan; Financing and Loans; Ethics
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  • 22 Jun 2017
  • Cold Call Podcast

ShotSpotter: A Gunfire Detection Business Looks for a New Market

Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Technology
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

leading research universities, low cost or highly trained labor, and geographic bounty. Understanding how clusters work can help governments develop effective policies for creating them, as well as direct entrepreneurs to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Power and Influence
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    Dennis Campbell

    Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; service industry; hotels ＆ motels; consumer products; restaurant; manufacturing; professional services
    • April 2006
    • Module Note

    Asset Allocation: A Half-Course Module Note

    By: Luis M. Viceira
    Provides an overview of the main ideas and structure of a 15-session module on long-term asset allocation designed for MBA graduate students and investment professionals. This module is taught as part of a full-length, 30-session elective class on investment management... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Investment; Decisions; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Teaching; Theory
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    • 04 Jun 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

    Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng

      Robert J. Dolan

      Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

      • 08 Jun 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: June 8

      http://people.hbs.edu/evandensteen/OnlineDocs/PP10_MS_EVdS_Culture%20Clash.pdf   Working PapersThe Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms Authors:Raphael Amit, Yuan... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study

      By: Nataliya Langburd Wright
      The role of strategy for innovative startups is theoretically ambiguous and much debated among practitioners. I interviewed executives of 253 scaling software ventures from 34 countries and scored the alignment of their market and organizational choices to detect... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scaling Technology Ventures; Global Contextual Intelligence; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy
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        W. Carl Kester

        Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
        • 21 Sep 2016
        • Blog Post

        How HBS Changed My Life

        world. Then I met Harvard Business School. Today I want to talk about how the institution has changed my life in three tangible ways. 1. Confidence – While at HBS, I went through hundreds of case studies where I had to put myself in the... View Details

          Stefan H. Thomke

          Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

          Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
          • March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
          • Case

          Micro Insurance Agency: Helping the Poor Manage Risk

          By: Michael Chu and Jean Hazell
          The notable success of insurance products for low-income clients of its microfinance network leads Opportunity International to launch the first global specialized microinsurance company, the Micro Insurance Agency (MIA). Building on the experience in 10 countries... View Details
          Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Cost Management; Microfinance; Globalization; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Infrastructure; Nonprofit Organizations; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America
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          • 2015
          • Working Paper

          Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH

          By: Danielle Li
          Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This paper develops a framework for separately identifying... View Details
          Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Experience and Expertise
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            Reza R. Satchu

            Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in... View Details

              H. Kent Bowen

              Professor Kent Bowen's current research and teaching is in the field of operations and technology management. He has served as course head for the required first year MBA course, Technology and Operations Management, two advanced level courses, Running and Growing... View Details

              • Research Summary

              International business and political risk in West Africa

              This project, based on confidential corporate archives, explores the response of foreign companies to political decolonization and the threat of expropriation in Ghana and Nigeria. Foreign companies in Ghana and Nigeria, especially those from Britain, had a... View Details

              • 03 Feb 2018
              • Op-Ed

              How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

              do so, investment funds will need to collect new data. The good news is that over the past decades, many initiatives have contributed to developing standards to assess companies’ social performance. The Sustainability Accounting Standards... View Details
              Keywords: by Julie Battilana
              • 22 Feb 2022
              • Research & Ideas

              Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

              Women are more likely to invent medical treatments for endometriosis, cervical cancer, and other female conditions, but the dearth of women scientists limits the potential for such life-saving innovations. Female research teams are 35 percent more likely than male... View Details
              Keywords: by Kristen Senz