Specialized Scientific Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2009
News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

are the exceptions. In the vast majority of high-tech products (and even some low-tech products like apparel), knowledge about manufacturing helps you design products and get them to market quickly. What this means is that when... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1998
News

Going Against the Flow

founding Pactual. Over the years, Jakurski has learned that successful investing in Brazil requires intimate knowledge of the country. The two most prominent kinds of outside investors, he observes, are "offshore portfolio managers, most... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

Pisano and Shih: It’s naive to believe that manufacturing can be shipped abroad without harm to U.S. competitiveness. Related Links Why Manufacturing Matters - HBS Working Knowledge Making Their Way James McNerney Jr. After decades of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

Leonard agreed to join forces in an e-mail Q&A with HBS Working Knowledge to explain more. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Your work examines the concept of a company being either a "mouse" or an "elephant." What are the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

nonprofit organization, IAVI brought together partners with different perspectives and motivations from nonprofit, industry, government, and scientific research sectors toward developing vaccines. IAVI played several roles: honest broker,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

change that. Going forward, we need to view diagnostics, devices, and drugs in terms of the objective value that each creates. What about patient attitudes? Do you think most health-care consumers are ready to place their faith in treatments that require detailed View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business School Working View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial activity itself. What was... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. Learn More about what you earn What Learners are Saying I'd never experienced such an immersive platform online. It was more effective at building and solidifying View Details

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

entrepreneurship, and policy making. "It was an exciting effort that joined health care administrators, policymakers, and academics in discussing how to strengthen management education in the health sector, with a special focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new manufacturing entrants between 1985 and 1994 and find that firms are far more attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Database Best Practices - Research Computing Services

definition language When choosing the appropriate data types , pay special attention to the following: type, length and sign of numeric columns features of fixed or variable length character, text, and binary columns row enumeration and... View Details

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

if an employer provides some special training/skill to an employee that increases his market value substantially ." Naseem Khan suggested that " a retention bonus may be doled out in lieu of base pay increases." Steve... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Feb 1997
News

OPM Reunion Snapshots

Erik Sorensen (22nd OPM) Currently the managing director of Club Sultan in Marbella, Spain, an exclusive European holiday ownership club, Erik Sorensen specializes in marketing luxurious vacation opportunities. "My business is about... View Details

20 Oct 2022
News

Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

Lebanon Ingea introduced Ambassador Shea, and noted her broad knowledge of the region and career path starting at the State Department and including multiple postings in the Middle East. Ambassador Shea summarized the situation in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2008
News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

and planning; and how evaluation, compensation, and promotions are conceived and carried out. Moreover, success in today’s market requires a special kind of successor. He or she is what I call an “inside-outsider,” a truly talented... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

said. (To learn more about Edmondson's research on speaking up, see the Harvard Business Review article, Why Employees are Afraid to Speak.) Thin Political Markets Karthik Ramanna's presentation focused on "Thin Political Markets," situations in which business leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

English and relatively strict rules have been introduced with Der Neuer Markt. These advances have increased the incentives for capable managers to seek entrepreneurial routes. The second difference is the access to technical knowledge. In some countries, a stock of... View Details