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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move to rural North Carolina. Upon purchasing a View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
months. That kind of thing. DM: [laughs] JI: I told my wife, look, I'm going to get fired. DM: [laughs] JI: Just [laughing] so you know. We had a little baby at home and things like that. And you know, it turned out that that was like the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
London, and Tokyo, but in the emerging markets of India, China, and Brazil as well. "I think many companies are realizing that their track record of going outside their home country isn't great,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising companies and View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
settings include job agencies (whose customers include both job seekers and listers), realtors (whose clients include home sellers and purchasers), and auction houses (whose customers include buyers and sellers). Customers such as buyers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
percent for the market as a whole. New Capital Market Instruments The press and Wall Street are focused on the 24 countries which now have REITs and the 28 countries which are expected to have REITs over the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was undergoing a transition we called... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
your hometown or moving to a new country can be a tough transition for students and their partners. Having a partner’s support while navigating this new life can make or break the experience. Uwais marveled with gratitude at how... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
post-GFC, emerging market corporate balance sheet indicators have not deteriorated to AFC crisis-country levels. However, more countries are close to or in the “vulnerable” range of Altman’s Z-score, and average leverage for the entire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-testing by sabbaticals
life.” Luckily, Airbnb also had a sabbatical policy, which enabled Paul to take two breaks over 5+ year tenure at the company. Most recently, Paul completed his sixth sabbatical which looked quite different given the inability to travel due to Covid-19. The restriction... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
largely limited to those who can pay. Right now, it's simply too hard for would-be parents to get accurate and reliable information. Q: What about the market for babies who have already been born? In your book you bring up Guatemala and Vietnam as View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
combining data on U.S. outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of U.S. outbound capital flows reflects these incentives to bypass home and host country institutional regimes. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
people’s lives.” — GE Forsan Hussein The Business of Peace Hussein In the summer of 1998, while working as a fellow with an Israeli human-rights organization, Brandeis student Forsan Hussein interviewed a young Palestinian whose West Bank View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
of one of the largest semiconductor clusters in Europe. Contrary to conventional wisdom in the semiconductor industry, the Dresden team only copied from its home corporate locations in the United States those processes and practices that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
marks clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It shows how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling. In order to prosper, business... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
these few men, proud, arrogant, and blind, drove the country to financial ruin." Like the individuals convicted of insider trading in the 1980s, some of today's business leaders appear to have forgotten that they are fiduciaries who... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details