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- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
described: [B]ecause we are starting fresh, we don't have the collective memory of mistakes. [B]ecause India is booming, because our balance sheet is strong, people don't see risk in the same way they would do if they were working in [a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
private donors, gain the cooperation of governments, and catalyze private markets to achieve its goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509007 Columbus Tubing: Steel Is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies experience growth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
industrial location, talking and asking about the question with the nervous energy for which his team had always known him. By his own words, LaMagna was "a risk addict and a compulsive capitalist," and deep down knew that he... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
China's economy in context; and finally (3) "China and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed overtime. These materials should be of interest to observers and participants of Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via input-output markets) predict greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
substantial information about GMO products, they positively affect approval rates of GMOs by threatening the reputation of the regulatory agency. Our study further shows that firm and product uncertainty increases the impact of the social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
oversight and direction-setting for water.” For those who are interested in finding solutions, Nicole recommends Stanford Professor Barton H. Thompson’s new book, “Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
than forty high-profile moves and interviewed team leaders in multiple industries and countries to examine the risks and opportunities that lift outs present. They concluded that, regardless of industry, nationality, or size of the team,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
"greed and corruption helped create the crisis, ... simple human frailty played a vital role." They suggest providing incentives to make financial products easier, not more difficult, to understand. This would involve, among other things, more disclosure... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
Business School (HBS) MBA students. When faced with destruction, fear, and grief, do we throw our hands up in despair? Are we paralyzed by the headlines warning of impending climate catastrophes and the very real devastation from... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
recklessly than they drive their own cars) becomes a real danger. Project sponsors may take excessive amounts of risk knowing the debt holders will bear most of the downside, yet will share almost none of... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
interest lies in the boundaries between religion and the wider world," says the newly ordained Messenger. "To my mind, finding meaning in everyday activities is what religion is all about." Messenger says he often felt out of place during... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
are women, CB enjoyed a net income of about $73 million in 2008. According to Labarthe and Danel (aka “the two Charlies”), a high profitability rate is necessary to convince investors to take a risk on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond me! Liesl Pike Moldow’s (MBA ’93) “My Real Career” deserves praise for honesty and love. In the future I will look to my copy of the Bulletin for more than class news. Mike Smedley (AMP 50, 1966) Leamington, England One-Sided... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation. According to the article, a reduction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne