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- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
administrators, alumni, and current midshipmen — to document the academy’s evolution from its beginnings to the present. It conveys the educational experience at the academy today, including the regimen of midshipmen and the required sea... View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
network strategies. I also attended a first-year BGIE class taught by Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Rawi Abdelal, in which the students of Section H discussed “The U.S. Current View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
challenges. Water Treatment Plant Visit During our visit to the city’s water treatment plant, we were struck by the scale and complexity of Mumbai’s water management system. The facility currently processes 2,800 mega liters of water per... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
widespread distress: Corporate credit quality and growth, says Harvard Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina. “It's only in the US in 2007 and 2008 that we observed the highest fraction of the non-performing loans coming from households.” Debt incurred by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
Those private interests must be held accountable to a certain level of stewardship, “meaning that they are not allowed to give it away to those with interest counter to our endeavors as a nation.” Others were doubtful that regulation,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
The Decline & Fall of Europe by Francesco M. Bongiovanni (MBA 1980) (Palgrave Macmillan) Bongiovanni gives an overview of the intractable challenges Europe faces today: the unsustainability of current entitlement levels, the question of... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
Publications August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Accounting for Crises By: Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent of putting a man on the moon. With lifestyle choices... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental quality, they are ignored in most current sustainability metrics. It is time for these metrics to be expanded to critically assess firms... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
many advertisers that currently buy ads from Yahoo. The proposed deal would substantially reduce Yahoo's ability to offer competitive payments to Web site publishers seeking to show pay-per-click ads. Without Yahoo bidding against Google... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
in business, Bill George—the highly respected former CEO of Medtronic and current Harvard Business School professor—describes how anyone can become an authentic leader. In this leadership tour de force, George presents many surprising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an account executive at Grant Thornton,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Dean Kim B. Clark for founding the Leadership and Values Initiative, an effort that for the last two years has sought to more fully integrate the School's community standards of integrity and honesty, respect for others, and personal View Details
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
and strategic consequences. On the practical side: "All those finance and accounting classes I dreaded? Without them, I could never have managed a budget of that [the Commission's] size. I can say without uncertainty that before HBS,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
Students act on information pulled from actual accounting statements, earnings forecasts, and macroeconomic data, revising and forming new strategies as data becomes available. At the same time, they can take into View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
this is already happening. According to the National Science Foundation, in 1981 companies of less than 1,000 employees accounted for just over 4 percent of all R&D spending in the U.S., while companies of more than 25,000 employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in January 2003 by Jossey-Bass.Lagace: You have a bold idea for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
competitors trying to steal your customers, attract your best people, and leapfrog you in technology—the more valuable this course will be to you. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, we will... View Details