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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the region, compared with about 20 percent in Mercosur, the South American trade group. Not only have politics stood in the way of gains from collaboration between Israeli and Arab firms, but cooperation even among Arab companies has been... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit
Caitlin Riederer (MBA ’20) co-chaired the 2018 Women in Investing Summit. Prior to attending HBS, she worked in private equity at Charlesbank Capital Partners and strategy consulting at The Boston Consulting Group. Caitlin received... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture capital firm. “We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
access by expanding fellowships for those with financial need. It opened new international research centers and offices, launched the Harvard-wide i-Lab ecosystem, completed a $1.4 billion capital campaign, and enhanced the campus through... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
diffusion of new technologies. A networked incubator can provide tremendous value to a start-up team through connections that help forge crucial strategic partnerships, recruit highly talented people, and obtain important advice from outside experts. Consider three... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
Want to gain more respect at the office? Consider wearing red sneakers to work. OK, so maybe it's not quite that cut-and-dried. But recent research does find that people who wear offbeat clothes in a professional setting are often... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
we start by asking, ‘What will it take to eliminate disease?,’ we will gain a better understanding of why the disease occurs and what bits of biology need to be fixed—which allows us to create better medicines and, over time, get to a... View Details
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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
story. MODULE 1: Why “AND” renovation? The Challenge of Market Evolution This module maps out the key issues of the course focusing on the importance of the management of the product line over time. We will gain the dynamic perspective of... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
leaders fit in? The group's recently published work identifies three areas that capitalize on business's strengths and result in the greatest returns: Influencing policy. "We know that policy often stands in the way of innovation and... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture
business.” More recently his focus has been product strategy and growth strategy. “In the food industry, the diversity of challenges you encounter over time is really compelling” summed up Eisen. At HBS, fundamentals are hard-wired into the curriculum. And it’s also... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
below the poverty line. But this varied from less than 10 percent in the capital Kathmandu to more than 50 percent in several districts. Nepal is very diverse socially as well. One of our innovations over much of the existing literature... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
the single-celled organisms to bulk up on fat like bears preparing for winter. Alas, just like bears, the microscopic butterballs eventually go into hibernation. And once that happens, they stop growing, negating the gains made in oil... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial and family-held businesses. For his part, Liles became an expert on venture capital and the entrepreneur. In the 1970s and 1980s, as HBS intensified its research and curriculum development in the area of entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
students. They offer a great opportunity for students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore topics they might not otherwise get to study. SIPs run all day over the course of the four days and will typically... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
earning engineering degrees at Rice University, Doerr came to HBS and learned, as he puts it, “to think and speak on my feet.” His education continued at chipmaker Intel, where he gained experience in managing people, marketing, and sales... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
process itself can actually shape the realized strategy of the firm. This can include internal reporting structures and incentive systems, but it can also reflect external factors such as capital markets and customers. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
familiarity, i.e., individuals' prior shared work experience, may help explain this difference, as familiar teams may be more effective than unfamiliar teams at using the knowledge gained from the concurrent completion of multiple tasks.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says the factory requires less... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee