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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
with that.” Home: West Sussex, England. “As close to Africa as I can get in an English environment. It’s an overgrown farmhouse with horses and rabbits and dogs and many children.” On safari: “I was in one of our mobile camps in the Serengeti, and the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
rise of 3G, of the internet,” Kerr says. “You had a couple of wars, you had a great recession, you had 9/11. There's been lots and lots of things that have hit that world. And [software has] only continued to rise up.” Add that to the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
widely heralded. Clearly, it has enabled millions to participate in the paid workforce who otherwise would be constrained by location and disruptive commitments. But now we are beginning to see a backlash in the form of a migration of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
idea that we must all accept some ‘new era’ in which privacy is gone Being able to discuss, with a trusted friend at least, is the kind of freedom that makes us a great county. Giving up this right is a very bad idea.” On the other hand,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
helped. One Hindu woman we interviewed kept a Muslim gentleman in her home who didn’t want to migrate to Pakistan. A neighbor found out and accused the woman and her sister of hiding him. But she said, “No. Don’t you know, this is our... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
connections and professional networks remain just as important as they were in the past. This places U.S.-trained Chinese, with business connections and local knowledge on both sides of the Pacific, in a great position to create... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
decrease in herbal patent filing starting in the early 2000s. “We started asking ourselves, why does it have to be piracy?” Based on the surnames of patentees, the researchers found that a disproportionate number of herbal patents were granted to scientists of Indian... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
high, it's when the change is high—when credit is expanding a lot faster than the economy. That is when you should watch out. Layne: What can we learn from these patterns now? Greenwood: I think the Fed is doing a great job. Many people... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
for those who want to help them reinvent themselves. "We think about all these great large companies that have failed," said HBS professor Michael Roberto, who moderated the discussion. "But there are lots of View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
has culminated in the tragic assassination of Jo Cox, the young Member of Parliament active in the Remain campaign. Besides the appalling violence, so uncharacteristic of the highly civilized political discourse in Great Britain, this was... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Beverly Daniel Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Wilkerson is an award-winning... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
causes of all this that you lay out in the book is what you refer to as the “great wealth migration.” Can you talk about the great wealth migration? Define it and tell us a little bit about its impact on the economy. RS: So the View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
International Development Harvard Business Review Press The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
talent is diverse talent, and unique skills help grow the economy.” David Wittenberg put it this way: “If any H-1B visa holders have gone on to start large, profitable companies in the US, that is a great but unintended by-product of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
markets, a trillion dollars in foreign exchange move through the markets each day. The telecommunications revolution is a huge factor, as is the vast increase in cross-border migration and air travel, notwithstanding recent events. As a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Anywhere, which publishes March 30. The book acts as a “blueprint” for long-term workplace transformations, providing evidence-based advice for navigating the virtual work world, including dos and don'ts from companies that have embraced geographically distributed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Beverly Daniel Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Wilkerson is an... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
School of Business, recounts his history at GE in his recent book, Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company. And in this first episode of a special two-part Skydeck interview with Immelt, we talk about his rise to CEO,... View Details