Publications

01 Dec 2017
News

Developing Insightful Global Leaders

serve as embassies, enabling pathbreaking research (approximately half of all HBS cases produced today are globally oriented), facilitating immersions for students and faculty members, View Details

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

Contemporary Theories and Perspectives on Economic Development Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments? By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The literature on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2002
Manual

Cadet Leader Development System

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Growth and Development; Leadership; System

01 Sep 2006
Conference Presentation

Leader Development at HBS

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development

September 2000 (Revised January 2001)
Case

Managing IBM Research in Internet Time

IBM must adapt its research process to the volatility of the Internet market. Issues include incentives, research charter, reward systems, and linkages to business units and customers. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Research and Development; Information Technology Industry

Educators

13 Oct 2023
Video

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations (PRIMO)

Web

Economic Development in Rural Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

governments need to provide rural regions with the necessary tools and financing mechanisms to develop and execute an effective strategy Key Documents Competitiveness in U.S.... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Faculty Research Online

management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and View Details

Keywords: nonprofit; social impact; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

December 2009
Article

Aspects of the Political Economy of Development and Synthetic Biology

By: Rachel Wellhausen and Gautam Mukunda

Keywords: Government and Politics; Economy; Growth and Development; Science

October 1990 (Revised January 1991)
Case

AB Volvo: Organizational Development and Its Impact on Information Systems

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Organizations; Growth and Development; Information Technology; Auto Industry

01 Mar 2013
News

Faculty Research Online

Accountability Reporting Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna explains three ways to make corporate accountability reports potentially more useful to constituencies that include shareholders, communities, bondholders, and customers. See... View Details

March 2011
Teaching Note

Shenzhen Development Bank (TN)

By: Li Jin and Yuhai Xuan

Teaching Note for 210020. View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Decisions; Investment; Commercial Banking; Growth and Development; Negotiation Deal; Labor and Management Relations; Planning; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; China

December 2023 (Revised January 2025)
Case

Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad

In 2005, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone was a sensation. After its launch in 1999, the groundbreaking BlackBerry had captured the hearts and minds of corporate America through its secure wireless email service. The device was so addictive and... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Management Style; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; United States; Canada

Educators

Article

Market Integration in Developed and Emerging Markets: Evidence from the CAPM

By: Robert Bruner, Wei Li, Mark Kritzman, Simon Myrgren and Sebastien Page

Beta, as measured by the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), is widely used for pricing stocks, determining the cost of capital, and gauging the extent to which markets are integrated. The CAPM model assumes that equilibrium conditions prevail. The choice of which... View Details

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spring 2007
Article

Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950-1970

Around 1960, the first independent African nations emerged, marking the beginning of the momentous political event that, among other things, would change the visual representations and the copy of advertisements. Development, modernity, and industrialization became... View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Developing Countries and Economies; Africa; Great Britain

Read the full paper: Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: A Study in Zambia

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2024
Book

The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital

By: Archie Jones

In The Treasure You Seek, I share my lessons in leadership―focused on the notion of leadership capital and the 5 Cs (capability, culture, communication, connection, and confidence). Each of the 5 Cs is a tool for readers to develop and deploy leadership capital... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career