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John Schupbach

India. "I chose India precisely because I knew so little about it," John says. It was a steep learning curve. John lived with an Indian family in New Delhi, next to a slum of nearly 25,000 people that represented "the most educationally underprivileged... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II

By: Daniel P. Gross
This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign... View Details
Keywords: Invention Secrecy; Invention Disclosure; Trade Secrecy; Secrecy Orders; Cummulative Innovation; Wold War 2; Patents; National Security; History; Innovation and Invention; Outcome or Result; Intellectual Property; Policy; Commercialization; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit

political leaders have demonstrated spectacular leadership failures. The reasons and possible solutions shaped a fascinating give-and-take discussion among three distinguished panelists assembled in March at Harvard’s Kennedy School of... View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

Even if 2020 wasn’t a profitable year for booksellers, it seems to have been a banner year for reading. When we asked alumni to tell us about the best titles they’ve read this year, we received a flood of recommendations. Here we offer a sampling, in no particular... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

tactical approaches, and assessment tools to help you develop your own influence style and understand political dynamics as they unfold around you. By focusing on specific expressions of power and influence, this course will give you the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

and others who used to lead public opinion on these issues?” Seconding the idea that opportunities exist but prompt action is required, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin noted that the United States has strengths that play well in today’s global environment as... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

executives need to figure out how the product, labor, and capital markets work—and don't work—in their target countries. This will help them understand the differences between home markets and those in developing countries. In addition, each country's social and View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • Profile

Lauren Booker

"I've always been a 'save-the-worlder,'" Lauren Booker says about herself with a laugh. She grew up in a family with "a long, sustained history of service and civil-rights activity." Her grandfather, the late Carl... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Reflecting on AASU50: Advancing African American Business Leadership

history and experience at HBS as African Americans- from the earliest graduates to the founders of AASU and to all who, as students and alumni, have made a difference at HBS, in the African American community, and in society at large,”... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Porter Appointed to University Professorship

applicability, he has created a body of work that is required reading for students, academicians, practitioners, and political leaders around the world," Clark said. Clark noted that the impact of Porter's ideas has long stretched beyond... View Details
Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

political views aside to address the impediments to housing and homeownership at the state and local levels. This volume is a compilation of bipartisan recommendations from the authors and success stories from all corners of the country.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2008
  • Article

What T. R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903-1937

By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
The Panama Canal was one of the largest public investments of its time. In the first decade of its operation, the canal produced significant social returns for the United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the... View Details
Keywords: History; Development Economics; International Relations; Investment Return; Negotiation Deal; Panama; United States
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  • 03 Sep 2018
  • News

Moving Pictures

JD/MBA degree as a way to ensure that he’d have all the necessary tools to do so. But as his time at Harvard drew to a close, Singer continued to wrestle with what to do next. Law, public policy, and politics offered the most obvious... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment
  • December 2007
  • Case

Envisioning "Free Banking" in Antebellum New York (A)

By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
Banks throughout New York State suspended specie payments (i.e., payments in gold and silver) in May 1837 following the collapse of several state banks and the onset of a nationwide financial panic. Amid the chaos, the upstart Whigs were able to depose the longstanding... View Details
Keywords: History; Government Legislation; Capital; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

What does nationalism mean for the world economy? And what does it have to say in a world of ever-increasing globalization? We recently put those questions to political scientist and HBS professor Rawi Abdelal. His new book, National... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring the different sets of behaviors and activities, across all levels of the organization. Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment,... View Details
  • November 2003 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

Brazil at the Wheel

By: Geoffrey Jones
Taught in the second-year MBA elective on the Evolution of Global Business. Examines the costs and benefits of the Brazilian government's policies to encourage foreign multinationals to develop an automobile industry during the 1950s. A combination of incentives and... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Government and Politics; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Auto Industry; Brazil
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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

more just, and greener society, and this entails reforming our economic system and the way businesses operate. Even though these changes that diverge from deeply rooted norms are challenging to implement, now is the time to push for them. As we know from View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman