Language Translation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

contracts filled three floors. Next, she restarted her English language school for international students, a side of the business that faltered after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China and Beijing-mandated withdrawal of all... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

process. The paper explores how entrepreneurs and firms translated societal values into brands, globalized them, and changed societal perceptions of beauty as a result. It also shows the limitations of the homogenization achieved by firms... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

translated from multiple Indian languages into English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. Is an ages-old turmeric remedy for wounds patentable?Photo: iStockPhoto Choudhury and Khanna aimed to find out... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

upbringing set the course for his eventually attending HBS. His father, an Italian-born engineering-trained executive with Lockheed Martin who travels one-third of the time, met Amadio’s mother, an American, when he enrolled in an English class in a View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

Intercollegiate Case Bibliography published. It contained 710 cases from 63 institutions and a supplement of 242 cases in languages other than English. 1960 to 1961 Experimenting with Case Discussion Simulator School experiments with the... View Details

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

influences. This discourse hence suggested that this art had so far been aesthetically misjudged, therefore implying that it had also been economically undervalued. Saffronart and the other auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Bonhams) were able to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen. Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother's Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison Mane. Keen is also an active member of the Cherokee Nation, his... View Details

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship and venture capital, the actions of any one group are likely to have positive spillovers—or, in the language of economics, "externalities"—for their peers. It is in these types of settings that the government... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

greatly enrich the entire HBS community," he notes. Hurdles in Common International students hail from homelands that may differ vastly from each other, but once they arrive at the School, they tend to face common challenges. This is particularly true when English is... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

to realize that most people feel like outsiders - feel like they are different. It's a beautiful thing and worth celebrating. During LHM, we are reminded that the Latinx experience is incredibly diverse. We have different mother tongues. Sometimes we speak the same... View Details

06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Publication: Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., in press Abstract A collection of papers on ethics, translated into Italian. Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments Editors: R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details