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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
delegation of Chubb executives to discuss insurance issues. In the mid-1990s, Chubb opened representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen to do market research and assess the potential of the Chinese insurance market. In 2000,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- Profile
Michael Son
seniors from the Asia/Pacific region," he explains. "They wanted to see how we worked, take the measure of our motivation. From my perspective, I was impressed by how much they prized talent." Intrigued by the potential to "really understand how an... View Details
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Evgeny Koudryavtsev
"Thanks to my great mentors, early on I got a lot of responsibility and worked on a few landmark transactions," he says, "including the world's fifth-largest IPO." Seeking more buy-side experience, Evgeny was one of the few people hired for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
about the idea of the global economy returning to "business as usual." On the HBS Working Knowledge Web portal, Professor Emeritus James L. Heskett asked readers reflecting on September 11 to ponder "the implications of a possible loss of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
models on the Internet, the whole notion is to open up a vast quantity of information that is available in real time to all players in a particular supply chain—or more accurately, supply network. So everyone can see the whole picture... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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For Guests | Commencement 2025
traveling with a security detail? Please email MBA Student & Academic Services for more information. Harvard Yard Ceremony Harvard Yard gates open at 6:45 AM. All guests will be required to show a Commencement ticket to security personnel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
together to produce “leaders who make a difference not just in the world but for the world.” Leadership Takes Center Stage Just how to make a difference dominated the leadership discussion that opened the summit on Monday. The topic was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history. Compared with sovereign nations,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
competitiveness. To the contrary, that's an indicator that we have to choose between being able to sell our products to customers and paying our citizens well. "The ultimate goal of national policy has to be long-term productivity growth” A competitive View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
been opened to a fast-growing number of travelers ranging from student study groups to Syrian President al-Assad walking a stretch of the path with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. As it takes fuller shape, the Path variously serves as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
of the virus while keeping our economies running. In the absence of a treatment or a vaccine, COVID-19 is likely here to stay. As other countries begin to open up, the policies of South Korea can provide us... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. In creating leaders we employ the ontological discipline (from the Latin ontologia "science of being," see Heidegger, 1927). The ontological model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate that unraveling can occur in markets with competitive prices, that it can result in substantial inefficiencies, and that marketplace institutions play a role in restoring efficiency. I'll... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Concepts What Is a Platform? Value Creation and Capture Growth Factors Featured Exercise Articulate dynamic pricing’s benefits and drawbacks Define the most important characteristics of economies of scale Determine how platforms build... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
Administration, holds a joint appointment at Harvard School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and Management. Creating Demand One big open question is the degree to which illegal demand will be significantly diminished by the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
essential blue-collar positions. Says Harvey, "Firms must respond to these realities with higher wages, which make the goods and services they produce more expensive, which in turn makes the overall economy less competitive in a... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
concern, idea, or mistake,” says Edmondson, who identified the importance of psychological safety in team effectiveness 30 years ago and has continued researching its impact on teams and companies. “It’s very important.” Particularly at a time when the View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid's peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the developed View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons