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- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
Almost one-third of Americans consider immigration the most important “problem” that the United States faces, according to a new Gallup poll. And yet, companies say they need far more workers than the current system allows. Some business... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
finding the right match with people who could run those more distant stores and train people,” says Hyde. Despite these issues, Ample Hills expanded from the East Coast to the West, opening a store in the trendy Los Feliz neighborhood of... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
to change. Understand their leadership purpose so they can align people around a common purpose. Purpose defines the unique gifts people bring to leadership challenges, through which they can align others with their purposes in order to create positive impact. This is... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
Summing Up This month's exchange of ideas regarding U.S. healthcare reform ranged far and wide. Some of us were interested primarily in the issue of cost escalation and how to contain it. Others addressed issues of quality. For still... View Details
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key provision of the new health care law for fear its requirements... View Details
- Research Summary
Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
almost a "third sex," since most companies send men on the assumption that men will be more acceptable. "Women seem to be able to get to people quicker than the men can," he observed. Forward And Back Membership in the World Trade Organization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Profiles - MBA
reminder that the world we live in is far from perfect, but in every challenge is a chance to envision a new way of thinking and of doing, and I am excited to join a cohort dedicated to bringing that vision to life.” Tech areas of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
argue that an important, but so far neglected, factor was a developing market for innovation and a patent attorney system that was conducive to rapid technical change. We support our hypothesis using patent data, and we also present a... View Details
- 05 Jul 2023
- News
GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center
Sinemale, Director of Corporate Relations, Middle East and Africa at HBS; Sarah Shaw, Lead of Athar Program, HBS Club of GCC; and moderator Keshia Pieters, Senior Policy and Strategy Manager, HBS Club of GCC. As a hub for the 1,400 HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
reads for hospital customers. We examine more than 2.7 million cases read by 97 radiologists for 1,431 customers and find evidence supporting the benefits of customer-specific experience accumulated by individual radiologists.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
partners found that they could increasingly count on credit as a way of doing business, enabling them to acquire goods for American clients with far more capital than the company had. By 1860 the Heard & Co. purchases came to $1.5... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
mentor to a Robert A. Toigo Fellow, a member of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Leadership Forum, and a member of the Steering Committee for New England Springboard Enterprises. Daphne is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard Business... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
perfumes were reminiscent of one individual "note"—to employ the musical metaphor used in the industry—which tried to replicate nature. The new perfumes had a vastly increased range of scents; were far more abstract, with three notes; and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
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Events - Business History
Silk-for-Silver Connection across the Pacific World, XVI-XVIII.” Marcel Anduiza (Harvard Business School), 12 pm to 1:30 pm Jun 11 11 Jun 2025 Virtual Seminar Paloma Fernández Pérez (University of Barcelona), "Global Business and Local Welfare: the Transfer of Radium... View Details