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Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management About the Program About the Program Curious to know what a “day in the life” of an MBA student is like? Experience it first-hand at the Summer Venture in Management Program! SVMP is an View Details

21 Aug 2006
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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... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

2025
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Commentary on 'Tracing the Early History of IB Teaching at Harvard Business School' by Teresa da Silva Lopes

By: Louis T. Wells

The Comments follow the evolution of International Business (IB) at Harvard Business School (HBS) after the IB Area was disbanded in 1973. Several IB faculty were relocated to a course on the economic and political environment of business. HBS dropped its doctoral... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Globalization

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Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

summer 1997
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An Empirical Exploration of a Technology Race

By: J. Lerner

An extensive theoretical literature examines technological competition, and in particular whether leaders maintain their standing. These models, however, have received little support. Innovation is examined in the disk drive industry, an environment particularly... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Learning

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27 Feb 2007
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pricing, and that reinsurers' high costs of capital appear to play an important role. Institutional Portfolio Flows and International Investments Authors:K. A. Froot View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Finance for Senior Executives

Benefits By examining corporate finance from both internal and external perspectives, this executive finance program provides a solid grounding in the fundamentals of finance. You will build the skills View Details

14 Jun 2023
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Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

assignments and formal education programs. Little-T leader development, on the other hand, should deepen the employee's expertise in the organization's practices. This approach might include stretch... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

International Management Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization By: Jones,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

central part of their mission, asserting that they educate and develop leaders for society. And yet, if we look at the leading research universities View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

Backlash Against Investment Arbitration, edited by Michael Waibel, Asha Kaushal, Kyo-Hwa Chung, and Claire Balchin. London: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, forthcoming Abstract There are at least three reasons for the current backlash... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2010
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increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

December 8, 2023
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What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?

By: Sarah Abbott, Robin Abrahams and Boris Groysberg

GE is well known as an “academy company”—a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries. To better understand which companies are top talent incubators today, the authors worked with the Official Board, a firm that provides... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Organizational Culture

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Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux

In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details

Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design

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June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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Revlon India's Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard

By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad

Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international color cosmetics to India. After growing rapidly and pioneering the Beauty Advisor (BA) model in India, the... View Details

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24 Jun 2008
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log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14060 Bounded Decision Making: From Description to Improvement... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2024
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Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

compared to the outsized results of private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund investment banking professionals, consulting partners have asked, “Why not us?” While there was once an acceptance that... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

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Strategic Negotiations

efficiencies by developing a systematic approach to managing negotiations Synchronize internal and external negotiations Address the complexities associated with multiple parties View Details

03 Oct 2022
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Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

Glass profile database, which collects work history and education data from various public and private sources. Combined with Dow Jones VentureSource data, the list was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

June 2016 (Revised February 2017)
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The Role of Real Estate in Endowment Portfolios: The Case of Christ Church, Oxford

By: David Chambers, Elroy Dimson, Arthur I Segel and Eva Steiner

The case centers on Christ Church's Treasurer, James Lawrie, who is contemplating his options for investing a portion of the College's endowment in real estate. Approximately 1/3 of the total $690 million endowment was allocated towards real estate, much higher than... View Details