Health And Wellness - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

upgrading productivity. This is an area for more conceptual as well as theoretical research. Another candidate has to do more with the competitiveness-oriented framework itself. While the framework provides conceptual principles View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

coffee business, and last September she took charge of Post Cereals as well - a $1.3 billion operation. Not surprisingly, the New York Times calls Fudge one of "the top twenty women in American industry."... View Details

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

Finance can be intimidating, and many business executives don’t even try to get their arms around it. But Harvard Business School Professor Mihir Desai says business leaders need to engage with the world of finance in order to succeed.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

Health Climate change is predicted to be responsible for 250,000 additional deaths each year between 2030 and 2050 as the result of heat exposure among the elderly, childhood undernutrition, malaria, View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

don’t have an excessive debt load, companies emerging from bankruptcy may perform well when reorganized, a potential boon for both the firm and the creditors, Antill says. “If you could just get all the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

success of that idea, they could see how well the amount of interest predicted that success. At the same time, since the entrepreneurs—who determine how much mentoring they’d like to get—had no idea how many mentors expressed interest,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

version stability) MATLAB, Mathematica, StatTransfer, OpenOffice (Excel-like program), as well as other software titles that are a standard part of the Linux OS and GUI environment (RHEL v7 View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

(CHRO, L’Oreal USA), and Victoria A. Budson (Partner & Global Head of DEI at Bain Capital), as well as six panels and our second annual startup pitch competition. Panel... View Details

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

experiences across their careers. We sought to understand what kinds of harassment they experienced and how it affected them, as well as what organizational features were associated with more or less sexual... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

tools to improve strategy execution within your team, department, or organization. “I was impressed by how well the course material fit my personal challenges and goals at work, View Details

16 Aug 2023

#HBSMixer: College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School

Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School.... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

product, or service against the best-known similar activity, so that challenging but attainable goals can be set and a realistic course of action implemented to efficiently become and remain best of the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

medium. Among the popular subjects were pensive portraits of Land and playful snapshots of Polaroid colleagues. The team ventured outside the laboratory as well into the surrounding neighborhoods where they... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

Ghassan E. Nuqul

Keywords: Wellness

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Cash House | About

space houses the School’s Executive Education programs as well as the Office for Community and Culture. About the Name Cash House was re-named in 2020 to celebrate and honor... View Details

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

available + More Info – Less Info After spreading rapidly in the late 20th century, democracy has been on the defensive around the world—and arguably receding—in the 21st century. This represents a profound threat to freedom and... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

Boston region as well as organizations and institutions around the globe, including in his home country of Canada. McArthur’s association with HBS began in 1957 when he arrived on campus from Vancouver. His... View Details

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