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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
unconventional and unpredictable approach to policymaking. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-020 Almarai Company: Milk and Modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia With... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on earth. This unparalleled abundance is allowing our species to develop, distribute, and profit from innovation in nearly every corner of civilization. Now key elements of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
abundance is allowing our species to develop, distribute, and profit from innovation in nearly every corner of civilization. Now key elements of the modern world such as the speed and connectedness of digital communication, the dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
advertising." Skateboards And Electric Cars In developing an investment portfolio, Higgins says the investment group is drawing from classic business school lessons based on a two-by-two matrix. In modern sports investing, the media... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
Nayar led HCL as president and then CEO, the company's sales, market cap, and profits increased six fold, according to the book. Fortune magazine wrote that the HCL had "the world's most modern management" and the company was named one of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
high-cost, high-wage economy like Germany? Porsche's unusual answer in a globalizing auto industry has framed two case studies by HBS professor Jeffrey Fear and colleague Carin-Isabel Knoop. Do I Dare Say Something? Are you afraid to speak up at work? The amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
modernization of the ecosystem, not just one enterprise. This often requires structuring a special purpose vehicle that can manage shared risks and returns. Buy-in. The company must obtain buy-in of regional managers by adjusting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire way to strengthen the economy, improve society, and provide endless opportunities for entrepreneurs. Big opportunities. But View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
equipment, and pharmaceuticals have invested significantly in modern mapping technology, using such innovations as enhanced clustering techniques, better measures for analyzing networks, and expanded data on bilateral, multilateral, and... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
it's more about making these blades go a little bit faster and a little bit quieter," Jones says. "It's hard to imagine what a major technological breakthrough would look like. The breakthrough is more persuading people this is the right thing to do."... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15241.html August 2013 Journal of Public Economics The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—A prominent assumption in modern optimal tax research is that the objective of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
growing rapidly and modernizing its military as fast as it can, and will be a major threat beginning in about another ten years. Even Europe, which is now trying to move unification forward by anti-Americanism (which we cannot stop, no... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
coming down, I’m relatively optimistic that more of what seems like sci-fi will become reality over the next couple of decades. If you think about data as being the backbone of the modern economy, and the transmission of information... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
"capitalism" fail to examine the role of the firm, perhaps the central institutional innovation of the last two centuries. Business historians have a chance to shift debates on the subject of modern government through the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
business encyclopedias, and other sources. In many cases, these individuals were cited for the advances that they made in American business—opening new markets, creating new industries, instituting modern management practices, or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey By: Coplan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This enterprise was an important actor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
identity. Analysts continued to ask Count Anton-Wolfgang the same question they had posed to his grandfather: Could the company strategy endure in the modern era? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417010-PDF-ENG... View Details