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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
consequences of group affiliation in Asia and Latin America for several years, often with HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu. His current research focuses on several important aspects of business groups: their effect on entrepreneurial activity in emerging markets; the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
making and the culmination of HBS’s yearlong centennial observance, the three-day event was designed to galvanize thinking and action around the 21st century’s transcendent business challenges. What no one expected, but what dominated the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
were extremely effective and also efficient in their use of taxpayer dollars, but most were not meant to be permanent. “Guarantees have proven to be a very cost-efficient government tool when it comes to small business credit” Currently,... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
business navigated uncertainty in the past in Turkey. Sabancı, who started her career by working at the group's tire factory, gradually worked her way up the family business, building global partnerships and steering the business through times of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
“bestseller” of 1979 makes too strong a case that his policy recommendations should have been heeded. The basic shortcoming: We first need to agree on the priority of the problems and what viable solutions exist. Viability includes technical and financial feasibility... View Details
- Web
Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School
Macomber . By John D. Macomber on October 24, 2024 . Entrepreneurship Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech Featuring Karen Mills . Published November 4, 2024 . Negotiation and Decision Making Latino Voters Have Grown More View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the past is any guide. Business history shows that if the desire... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
center of gravity is not Iraq's military units, but rather the political leadership and hearts and minds of the people. At the same time that some leaders are engaging enemy tanks in one location, others are struggling with peace-keeping... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them to identify and exploit new business opportunities. In sum,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform the same ritual, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
same scale as working for material wealth.” Subrata Chakraborty put it this way: “Our problems are ours, created by us. To solve those we need to look within, not outside.” The real question is, he added, “how to imbibe humanism and to put it into effective View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
public knowledge. She is also the Director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project and an advocate for women's freedom of expression and expanded civic and political engagement. She currently serves on the national boards of the... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
spend resources to adopt some of the state-of-the-art technologies. Rich countries are sufficiently close for companies to be able to adopt these technologies by themselves. Poor countries are very far from the frontier, so it is View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
confident enough to give praise. MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech startup in this 2018 HBS case study (purchase required) MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
the protests and who is involved in them and then the business community's response, actually, genuinely felt different and genuinely felt like a new opportunity. April White: We have unfortunately become very used to the so-called thoughts and prayers statements that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
political interests," says Andrews. "Without their efforts, the country's peaceful transition to democracy would not have occurred." For its part, the HBS Club of South Africa, by virtue of its members and its stature, has been an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons