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- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
diverse talent to business school, we must demonstrate in both deed and word that business on a wide scale is a powerful change agent and that the avenue to being part of that change is through a business school education.” The following... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
players. Significantly for the sports industry's economics, TV revenues helped fuel the explosion in player salaries. Like everyone else, athletes gaped at the size of TV contracts and - assisted by an emerging group of player agents -... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog." Literary agent Peter McGuigan, who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
his first visit to the United States in 1995. "Even more breathtaking is the economic change that the Chinese have produced in their country since 1980. It speaks to an energy and entrepreneurial zeal that I find exciting." As an agent of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the country, Green tried to negotiate space on a Soviet flight. They refused the American officer’s request. “This is the final contact from here,” Green wrote on October 25, as the OSS agents destroyed classified records and gathered... View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Other factors hastened Heard & Co.’s decline, including the misappropriation of funds by the house’s agent Everett & Co. The firm also found it difficult to recover from its extravagant ways. “The prosperity of the past had initiated a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a farmer had to ask the View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
between savings and growth through investment. This link, however, disappears in open economy models, which is surely the relevant scenario in reality. An alternative interpretation of the relationship between savings and growth is that future growth prospects lead... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
traders in the China trade rippled out to and touched the society to which Western merchants overseas would eventually return. “Expatriates were the effective agents in transferring whatever was moved from China to America . . . goods,... View Details
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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
entrepreneur and faculty member at Stanford GSB’s equivalent of HBS’ Launching Tech Ventures, Brady shared his Research-Driven Ideation framework and gave students a deep dive into the evolution of generative AI. He explored cutting-edge advancements in data, robotics,... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
homeowners time and preventing costly repairs. By leveraging advanced agentic RAG, OCR, predictive analytics, IOT, and an AI-driven marketplace, Oply provides personalized insights, proactive reminders, and seamless vendor coordination -... View Details
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1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA
support or other duties. "Harvard officials" include: Faculty Administrators Clerical employees Professional employees Harvard University Health Services staff members Harvard University Police Department officers Agents of the... View Details
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
Describe your career strategy Digital clones or agents that codify your capabilities Resume that includes how you can scale your expertise Terms on which you are willing to offer your capabilities View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
which was unquestionably the best way to resolve intractable blockages in complicated locations. But step by step, stent by stent, the minimally invasive approach has improved to the point where fewer and fewer people need bypass surgery. Now, pharmaceuticals,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
Klein. At each stop, she gained new knowledge and experience while advancing her own reputation as a change agent capable of leading a company to growth through new product design. Ross’ entrepreneurial skills at a small fashion-eyewear... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
further thought: "Does increasing transparency and visibility of the ratios help increase the ability for shareholders and boards to make better choices?" He commented, "One of the best agents to advocate for the right... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
time I was particularly curious about a different set of issues: How can you use business as an agent for change in developing economies? How do you transform a local business to become a global player? And more fundamentally, how do you... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
agent who does not participate in trade in one competitive equilibrium must receive her autarky payoff in every competitive equilibrium. Our results extend to approximate equilibria and to settings in which utility is only approximately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
significantly reduce their downside risks and quickly begin to benefit from the ecosystem. Ping An’s ecosystems. Ping An started as a thirteen-person small property and casualty insurance office in China’s southern city of Shenzhen in 1988 and grew to become a... View Details
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5.1 Information Technology | MBA
intended. HBS, its employees, representatives, contractors, or agents may access, monitor, disclose, or use any information stored or maintained in the Resources, or authorize others to do the same in the following circumstances: As... View Details