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  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

at Columbia University, which they had covered together, as all were alumni. They were commiserating about having to submit revised forecasts to their division heads by the end of the week. Alec Hastings, head of Global Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

humans could perform. The present research explores the psychology of "botsourcing"—the replacement of human jobs by robots—while examining how understanding botsourcing can inform the psychology of outsourcing—the replacement of jobs in... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization

Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
  • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Jieliang Phone Home! (A)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; China
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U.S. Cluster Mapping Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM VBHCD... View Details
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Frameworks & Key Concepts Michael Porter & Competitiveness In 1990, Michael Porter published The Competitive Advantage of Nations , an examination of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. The... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media
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  • 22 Feb 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Juliet Schor, Boston College

  • 2017
  • Chapter

Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth?

By: Laura Alfaro
Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A key driver of this phenomenon has been the cross-border production, foreign... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Activity; Growth; Spillovers; Complementarities; Foreign Direct Investment; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development; Multinational Firms and Management
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  • 14 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

country is shifting away from the liberal Social Democratic Party that has been the benchmark of its system. Fewer young Swedes are joining unions, and American-style private schools and medical care have taken root. “Americans, myself included, don’t have a fully... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

committee chair is attempting to understand the complexity of the portfolio and the risks that might be present. How should the risks of these sophisticated strategies be measured? And, in particular, what risks is the endowment exposed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

the number of players globally tops 3 billion, the paper says. “People don’t realize how pervasive games are,” Amano says. “They are larger than music and movies combined.” Amano and Simonov analyzed the decisions made by 2.5 million... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting
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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

departments, the HBS Global Initiative and its off-campus centers, and provides RA training services. Services CRG case researchers have contributed to over 1,900 projects across all the HBS academic units. Field cases (which involve... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

What does it take to put a price tag on open source software (OSS), a resource so critical to the global economy that some 96 percent of commercial programs include some code created, tinkered with, or distributed for free by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
  • 20 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

largest cost of pursuing an MBA. From a professional standpoint, I am already seeing the benefits. The program gave me the chance to reflect and better understand myself. I can stand my own in a room with our senior partners and clients.... View Details
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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

enabling the integration of the frameworks and functional skills learned in the first year into an understanding of the organization as a total enterprise. In order to design a tailored curriculum to meet their academic goals students may... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research

interdisciplinary and global approach to understanding business history. Today business historians at the School investigate a broad range of themes, including entrepreneurship, innovation, globalization,... View Details
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About - Business & Environment

Director Lynn Schenk is the Director of the Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard Business School. In this role, Lynn applies her broad understanding of the intersection of business and climate change. She is a strategic thinker... View Details
  • November 10, 2020
  • Article

Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems

By: Mjåset Christer, Umar Ikram, Navraj S. Nagra and Thomas W. Feeley
Health care systems across the world have increasingly embraced a value-based health care (VBHC) agenda. They do so for different reasons, using different foundations, and variations on the tools and tactics to effect their strategic goals. The role of governments,... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Comparative Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Global Range; Performance Improvement
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  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

  Working PapersUnfinished Business: The Impact of Race on Understanding Mentoring Relationships Authors:Stacy Blake-Beard, Audrey Murrell, and David Thomas Abstract W.E.B. DuBois's 1903 words are prophetic, as he proclaims the importance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne