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- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
years—an enthusiasm for investing abroad. Historically there have been huge differences in national propensities to engage in foreign direct investment. Britain held almost one-half of total world FDI before 1914. The United View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
life of service is one thing that keeps me very motivated. I succeed when those I serve succeed. "The differences are countless. My consulting role allows me to drive formal project management and lead my engagement teams to guide... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing hybrid business models, which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
care at religious mass gatherings. However, in 2015, at the Kumbh Mela in Nashik and Trimbakeshwar, the state government extended its services to include a hypertension-screening program. We examine here the value and implications of such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
only to see the rates skyrocket when the crisis hit. Many mayors cried foul, insisting that they had been hoodwinked. But were the local politicians really unwitting fools? “The question is, Did local politicians get fooled into engaging... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
particular medical conditions. A recent report shows that Medicare costs for identical conditions vary greatly from state to state, and even within states, with no apparent difference in the quality of care. How do you explain those... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were “nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an ancient form has been adapted to... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
Relations Director in CPD. “It used to be that once you graduated from HBS, your relationship to CPD ended. But now we offer lifelong career services to alumni. This roadshow is a way to engage alumni and remind them of all we offer.” The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
For more details, see Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz (Harvard Business Press 2008). Choice sells, in politics and in the supermarket. Distinct choices on the shelf attract our attention to a product... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Seegull coauthored a policy paper, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and others, focused on engaging the federal government in impact investing to achieve social and environmental outcomes. "That opened my eyes to the world of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
is changing at an astounding pace in this region. Although tempting, the US response should be less focused on addressing the "current" state of affairs and more attuned to the various potential trajectories of change. For... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
in the social enterprise area,” Austin explains. “SEKN is about knowledge generation and institution building. We are harnessing the power of a learning network that can engage in crosscountry comparative research, which is very hard to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Sabine Tejerina (MBA 2009) Cofounder and COO, Upstreet Concept: Launched in 2020, Upstreet makes it easier and more economical for companies to reward employees and customers with shares to improve View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
get an early immersion in the college setting. And last November, he helped another organization, Entrepreneurial Engagement Ohio, gain a $5 million grant to enable high school students to attend lectures and compete for scholarships to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced information costs enable organizations to engage with communities of developers, professionals, and users for core innovative activities,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Gordon Ross
States itself. “Maybe I look at America with rose-tinted glasses,” he says, “but I really believe the spirit of entrepreneurism sets the U.S. apart. Part of it is a more forgiving attitude – here, it’s okay to get things wrong a few times... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
enrolled at Penn State where he majored in economics and took a couple of courses from Lawrence Fouraker, who was an economics professor there. “Fouraker wrote me a letter of recommendation to HBS while unbeknownst to me, he was about to... View Details