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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

Rembrand Koning and colleagues. With women representing only 13 percent of patent holders in the United States, the lack of female-driven inventions may well be having a direct impact on View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 29 Aug 2023

Q&A with Admissions

This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event... View Details
  • Web

Research Design - Impact Investments

research is archival and constructs a timeline of how our sampled companies evolved, including key events such as executive hires and departures, mergers and acquisitions,... View Details
  • December 2013
  • Supplement

Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)

By: James K. Sebenius
This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
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  • 02 Jun 2021
  • News

HBS Announces Its 2021-2022 Blavatnik Fellows

  • Research Summary

Creating Trust in International Joint Ventures in Asia: An Empirical Comparative Study

In the wake of the currently ongoing financial crisis in Asia, we anticipate a rapid increase of international joint ventures between Asian and Western firms. However, so far, the sources of success in international joint ventures have not been well understood. Why do... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

present themselves to the outside world? “What ended up being a really important symbolic activity for these companies was recounting their founding story,” McDonald says, adding that it often was about how the founder—or a relative of the founder—used an existing... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • Profile

David Velasquez

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I want to be better prepared to lead and improve the delivery of health care in our country. Patients cannot wait for our systems to be more accessible,... View Details

    BUSINESS ETHICS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

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    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    Banking on Success

    An investment banker for the past 25 years, Steve Waters says that what he likes best about his profession is "the opportunity to build businesses." A graduate of Harvard College as well as HBS, Waters spent the first part of his career... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
    • 25 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

    them to rate all the other people in the company in terms of how much they personally liked each one and how well each did his or her job. These two criteria—competence and... View Details
    Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
    • 25 Aug 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why IT Does Matter

    extraordinary robustness and have permitted the survival of otherwise doomed organizations. Evaluating these opportunities as well as thinking through their implications and... View Details
    Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
    • April 2010
    • Case

    A Giant Among Women

    By: Willy C. Shih, Ethan S Bernstein, Maly Hout Bernstein, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Yi-Ling Wei
    Few CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony Lo, CEO of Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., now the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world. In the mid-1980s, Giant... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Global Strategy; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Product Development; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan
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    • 12 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

    rulings, allowing them to eliminate arbitrators that might sympathize with customers. However, many consumers “have no idea who these arbitrators are. They’re just names on a list,” Egan says. “But the firms know each one of these arbitrators very View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
    • 08 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

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    Financial Aid - Alumni

    been and continues to be so critical. From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who grew up in an immigrant family without health care, aspires to make life-saving drugs more... View Details
    • 2012
    • Teaching Note

    ChemChina (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
    ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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    • February 2025
    • Supplement

    eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell
    The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Competition; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Expansion; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurial Finance; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya
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    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    The Accidental Innovator

    as well not start something if you don't have its end objective well defined. Working without a clear definition of your objective is considered wasteful, inefficient. But if you are trying to get outside... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 18 May 2023
    • News

    India's New Money Managers

    big-picture questions, as well as the basics, such as, What is a mutual fund? The app also helps women invest to reach specific goals and offers regular content through the LXME blog, hitting on topics like... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon