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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
pump and the B-17 bomber), the authors explain why including the customer is an essential ingredient of success for any team, company, or organization. Learn, Earn, Return: The Journey of a Global Entrepreneur by Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
change the course of history. Indispensable will also help you understand this new model so you can use it in your own life-whether you're a citizen casting a ballot, an executive choosing your next CEO, or a leader trying to make your mark. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
on making vegetables irresistible for people who love eating meat. Julia: One thing that I would say is that when you walk in, it feels different right away. So you walk in and you see the menu of the day and then someone comes up and takes your View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Fall 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Global Talent Flows By: Kerr, William R., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Çağlar Özden Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
worse in future-oriented activities such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) compared to those in weak-FTR language environments. Examining thousands of global companies across 59 countries from 1999 to 2011, we find support for our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016
a two-sided, many-to-one matching with contracts model in which agents with unit demand match to branches that may have multiple slots available to accept contracts. Each slot has its own linear priority order over contracts; a branch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
order to do so, they need the help of foreign "investors" that are familiar with the frontier. Of course, these foreign partners will not do all the work. Domestic companies need to provide certain inputs and exert effort.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
devices. That simple step, in Schreck's opinion, "changed the nature of where we're going, I think, with global computing. It depends on what behavior you're asking [people] to change, and what the incentive and benefit is to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
counterweights, encouraging the preservation of some valued elements of the old institutional order alongside new elements that allow for change and survival. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49377... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
institutions in order to increase farmers’ efficiency, yields, product quality, and sustainability. This leads to a bigger revenue pie for farmers and the companies that do business with them. The time has come for a new conception of... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
organization, and then wrote reports that our team would provide to the target company. Much of what I wrote about dealt with issues that are common in Asia, from a lack of governance that met global standards, human capital resource... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
emerging global problems with very long timelines and possibly irreversible effects," Reinhardt told the group. Strategies For a Green Business The debate on whether or how business should react has been "polarized and dominated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers under the increasingly undeniable... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
beliefs as well as how a customer's beliefs affect its order quantities. We identify two dimensions of supplier performance: consistency, the probability that a supplier delivers in the current period conditional on availability in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
lengthy document expressed six broad core values including “Client Value Creation,” “Integrity,” and “Respect for the Individual.” They sounded great, but in reality made it hard for its 400,000 global employees to search quickly and find... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
resolve in order to create strong links between employees and the kinds of things that motivate them, the firm's strategy, and the way the firm is organized to deliver the strategy. EE: LPSF attracts participants from a range of... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
similar issues." Two years ago HBS and Wits Business School in Johannesburg established the program in order to aid the rapid economic and social changes taking place in southern Africa. Participants are middle managers from the private... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806138 PublicationsBusiness Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Authors:Kash Rangan, John Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne