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- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
we are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. The international financial community no longer embraces capital mobility with just a few qualifications; rather, the qualifications these days are... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
“Tentpole” productions (so named because they would “hold up” the smaller, less commercial movies made by studios) and the odd dark horse can still rake it in at the box office, but these days it’s less of a given that consumers will ante... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Pick up most business magazines these days and you'll probably find an article on some venture capital transaction involving millions of dollars. From HBS Associate Professor Benjamin Esty's perspective, however, these deals are small... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
comfortable because regardless of my confidence in myself, I still feel like a visitor in your world - where my membership and access to these privileged spaces may be voided at any point. My Black experience is acknowledging how you View Details
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
often discussed with Uncle the expediency of my buying a house in town, in which all the family could be collected to live in the winter,” John Heard wrote. “He approved the idea, and I was not, therefore, much surprised when he told me one View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
both cases I never had a chance to say goodbye. And I think it really is how you touch people every day. None of us knows how long we have to live. And so we've got to make every day be really meaningful and show up and View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
For fun, Light takes to the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. "I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me," he says. In his first interview... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Africa. We hiked for about eight days in the bush, far removed from any civilization. No roads. No cabins. Slept under the stars in between the animals. And one day, our guides told us we were going to hike to find some fresh drinking... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
me because I live and breathe it every day and it motivates me to keep on pushing. JH: During his tenure as CEO of Vodafone, Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) transformed the telco into a truly global organization through organic growth and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant Power cofounder Ron Smith (MBA 1979) stands aside the East River in New York, where his company launched the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States. It’s a muggy July day in New York City, and Ron... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
established market. Mapping a product's or service's delivery chain can identify opportunities where removing a link from the delivery chain will allow people to do for themselves what they previously had to rely on others to do for them. The health View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
from MBA class, 2002. So after I graduated from 2002, then I stayed in Boston for a year, working here. Then my husband graduated from 2003. So when he graduated, he found a job with United Health Care in Minneapolis. And I said, OK, so... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through open innovation using external crowds and "netnographic" analysis. Beiersdorf,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne