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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
those small companies accounted for over 22 percent of all industrial R&D spending, while the largest companies' share of spending declined to just over 40 percent. These data reflect the changing reality in almost every industry:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled randomization by precinct, the level at which vote View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Christine Keung: "The trek exposed us to the challenges of rural Appalachia: declining life expectancy, a shrinking population, an economy that has stagnated and contracted, the lowest... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
inflation? Cohen: No, not a good idea. Inflation moves in basis points, or one or two percent, whereas bitcoin moves in much bigger swings over the course of a day or an hour. Now, the only exception is if you’re in an economy with... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
by charging more to private insurers, but that has largely been disproven. Instead, Medicare’s leverage helps eliminate the one-third of health care expenditures that experts view as simple waste. The advantages of a public option The public option can take advantage... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
grew up in Cameroon and have known each other most of our lives. We share many of the same lived experiences, including our first business venture in high school renting out venues to organize parties over the holidays. It’s probably not... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
Technology Innovations in Education, Managing Human Capital, and an independent project through the Social Innovation Lab. She was also able to examine the economic forces around teachers unions through her group paper in the Role of Government in Market View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
manage investors' expectations, and how you manage partners. The competitive advantage of the U.S. economy lies in our great science institutions and university infrastructure. —Gary Pisano "I see a lot of great research going on... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
Government, and the International Economy class on the monetary crisis in Argentina, and then I roasted coffee beans and worked on the site in the afternoon,” recalls Han about a recent Tuesday. While she misses her sectionmates and... View Details
- Web
Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
empirical sense of “what works” in solving them. As such, this year's programming revolves around sharing programmatic, organizational, and financial solutions for social enterprises at every level of sophistication, from startup to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the HBS Initiative on Social... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
think awareness is heightened, and in this economy there'll be a drop in demand for space, both for apartments and offices,” he says. “With those two things together, I think that the offices with the premier health story will get the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
we (as common people) be thinking into how to share solutions ?) ... Our ideas, our knowledge, should be public." Or do you feel, as Gaurav does, that "the creator is the owner! If not, people will not create"? (Of course,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
fifth-generation nuclear capabilities. The threat of nuclear aggression among powerful nations did not disappear with the Cold War; it remains a major challenge for the United States and poses a more serious danger than terrorism. The Chinese have a strong View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
have always been highly mobile, with more than 40 million leaving their jobs voluntarily in recent years. That’s roughly twice as many as are fired or leave involuntarily. It’s testimony to a US economy that produces a remarkable number... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Patrick Chun
a social-enterprise business that marketed handmade luxury goods sourced directly from artisans in developing countries. Consumers would get unique accessories, and the craftsmen would get a higher share of the profits via our direct... View Details
- Web
Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Leading a Family Business Course Number 1895 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Overview: Family businesses dominate the economies of most countries. According to research by McKinsey, businesses owned... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
as Digitas, AKQA, and TWBA—when, in 2013, a shared workspace coffee-bar conversation provoked the career pivot that would launch her new business venture, Prokanga. “I had a bunch of interactions with people who were starting companies,... View Details