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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. In this e-mail interview, Harvard Business School professor Gregory S. Miller discusses this... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
There is something in the human soul that yearns to get away from it all, to some unspoiled paradise by the sea, lulled by gentle breezes. And those dreams of golden days and starlit nights translate into a startling, cold-cash reality: Tourism View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of Manhattan. Among their many virtues,... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 20 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
India Conference 2015
India at the time of the event. This year, the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School hosted over 75 speakers and 600 attendees over two days in early March. The event was kicked off on the 7th of March with an exciting debate... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation studied by all postwar MBAs. In... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
What motivates entrepreneurs? Money? Control? In truth, some entrepreneurs are expecting to get rich. Others want to grow and control a new venture. But most would probably answer: "both." The problem, as Harvard Business School... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), and in seeking to appreciate the diversity, history, and myriad experiences of the Asian Pacific Islander community, the Asian-American Business Association, in collaboration with the... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend: Senior-level management from health care delivery organizations, such as general managers,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Note on Generic Drugs in the European Union Harvard Business School Note 309-019 Rules governing the introduction of generic drugs in U.S. and EU have some similarities but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
Powell observed. "Through our network of contacts, we assembled an extraordinary group of business and community leaders who, in light of events that were still unfolding, spoke from the heart to inspire as well as inform us." Honorary... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
of the owner, who is asked by his father to take over the business. An example: You are working on the docks as a 28-year-old in Worcester, Massachusetts, and your father asks you to stop work for a moment so he can talk with you. He tells you that the View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care (Harvard Business Press, 2009), explains how to create more knowledgeable, flexible, and responsive delivery organizations. “Some of the most important innovations are not technologic—they... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
Sam agreed: "This should be standard business practice." He asked, "Why do these boards not have a member who truly understands Compliance/Governance?" John would go even further. "Yes to a compliance officer This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
going to be living a 100-year life. So I wanted a framework that helped you understand both from a personal standpoint. But then, I began to think about this from a business standpoint: we need a multi-stage definition around life. DM:... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
multinational that started out with a generic "international department," then set up country bases before trying to layer in global business units that placed the country managers in subordinate roles. The... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna