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Placement - Doctoral

Placement Tradition of Success The demand for faculty at business schools has never been greater. Graduates of the HBS Doctoral Programs have gone on to become prominent scholars in a wide range of disciplines at many of the world’s most... View Details
  • 2014
  • Book

Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Leadership; Power and Influence; China
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  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

period has a significant persistent effect on post-colonial outcomes.   Cases & Course MaterialsBaosteel Group: Governance with Chinese Characteristics Harvard Business School Case 309-098 The new outsider-dominated board of directors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

life sciences has consequential implications for medicine and subsequent medical innovations. Using publications in leading life science journals to measure fundamental knowledge, we document large agglomerations in the institutions where... View Details
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

different management systems. Through stories and cases drawn from years in the field, he reveals how health-care providers can successfully manage both modes. To do so, they must reevaluate traditional roles and embrace continuous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Faculty & Research - Global

learning. GloColl comprises a seven-day session held on the HBS campus, followed by a three-day session held in two cities in Asia, Europe, or Latin America each year. More information In The News 09 May 2025 New York Times ‘How Do I Survive?’: Tariffs Threaten U.S.... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

will often delay efforts to change "who we are." Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50565 Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics? China’s Gamble for Modernization By: Looney, Kristen, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

support patients and providers across women’s health settings by delivering virtual lifestyle medicine interventions. Christina’s drive to improve women’s health care delivery stems from experience delivering humanitarian aid in Eastern... View Details
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

GlaxoSmithKline employees were accused of bribing Chinese health care workers to prescribe the company's drugs. The accusations brought to light the questionable incentive structures of the Chinese health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Blending Heritage and Innovation: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025)

dreams at Harvard Business School. “For me, being Chinese American means blending old heritage with new meaning. My middle name is also my Chinese name, Mintao (敏涛), meaning ‘clever wave’. In View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Action Plan: In Context

Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the... View Details
Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior
  • Research Summary

Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than previously available. Most notably,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

applying a rigorous professional criteria to the deployment of the monies so as to yield an economic return equal to or higher than those of comparable assets in the Tufts endowment. In the process, the Omidyar approach is contrasted to more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

vacancy risk, and regulatory exposure compared to traditional long-term leases (usually for one year). Short-term rentals are major asset classes in some vacation venues and very disliked by neighbors in other locations. Considering these... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

traditional crossover journals and in shorter pieces like op-eds and blogs; and attracting the interest of those who write columns, blogs, and articles about research for practitioners. I conclude by describing a few ways that academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

make for himself at age twelve. He also started his own university, Shantou University, in 1981, with a similar purpose. 2) William and Victor Fung of Li & Fung: old traditional Chinese family-owned... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

by harnessing a new business model. The bold approach worked. Gilead, one of the world’s leading antiviral makers, would sell its branded Hepatitis C medicines while offering local manufacturers voluntary licenses to produce generics,... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

satisfaction and willingness to exert effort. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=35966&i=35968&cs=c47cdb98df17b9135950d44df0b063b0 November 2014 Zhongguo ke xue yuan yuan kan [Bulletin of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

turnover and share prices in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese markets, especially in large-cap portfolios. See Robin’s other research here , Toomas’s other research here , and Jeffrey’s other research here . More Info Loan types and the... View Details