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  • 27 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

encouraged to listen intensely to my peers and also to add value with my responses. This way the analyses progressed intelligently and critically which kept me engaged and inspired to think through different perspectives. We covered a... View Details
  • Web

Alumnae Circles - Alumni

Alumnae Circles About Circles FAQ Regional Contacts Alumnae Circles is an HBS-enabled, alumnae-owned program designed to build and foster genuine relationships among HBS alumnae*. A Circle is typically a diverse group of 6-10 women who... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • Fast Answer

Bloomberg: comparative returns

securities you want just start typing the company name and a menu will come up. If you want to see the data rather than the graph, click on Table (in grey above the list of securities). View Details
  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Building Sustainable Cities

By: John D. Macomber
By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; City
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  • 06 Dec 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Elizabeth Lyons, UC San Diego

  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Performance; Economics
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  • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

International Trade Finance Practices Authors: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) aims to create a close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and extending beyond graduation. In this feature, we highlight the experiences View Details
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by William Kerr & Ramana Nanda; Banking
  • Web

HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

OKRs From Individual Contributor to Manager - Adapting Your Work Style Hiring Fast and Firing Faster Making Decisions with Imperfect Data Managing Cross-Functional Teams Managing Pivots and Setbacks Managing Your Career: Should I Stay or... View Details
  • Article

What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation

By: Noubar Afeyan and Gary P. Pisano
Many people believe that the process for achieving breakthrough innovations is chaotic, random, and unmanageable. But that view is flawed, the authors argue. Breakthroughs can be systematically generated using a process modeled on the principles that drive evolution in... View Details
Keywords: Breakthrough Innovation; Variance Generation; Selection Pressure; Emergent Discovery; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation; Innovation Leadership
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  • Web

Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership in the social sector and... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

value of their intellectual property," he says. We asked Lerner to discuss current issues in IP and also describe an Executive Education course he will teach this summer on the subject. Sean... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • October 1993
  • Case

Analyst's Dilemma (A), The

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is shutting down its capital finance group. Her roommate makes her promise to keep this information confidential because... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Leveraged Buyouts; Conflict of Interests; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 07 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Vishal Gaur, Johnson, Cornell University

  • Web

Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at ... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara MBA 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something impor... Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra