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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
programs available in languages other than English? We expect to offer our courses in additional languages in the future but, at this time, HBS Online can only be provided in English. All course content is... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
size of the LGBT population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but non-representative sample, we compare estimates from the standard methodology of asking sensitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
almost exclusively in those same large vehicles likely to be made obsolete by a new 35.5 MPG standard the Administration has promised to implement by 2016. Daniel Heller, Visiting Scholar: All stakeholders must work together to make GM's... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Upper Burma in 1886 brought the rest of that country under British control. Also during the late nineteenth century large regions of tropical Africa were incorporated in the European, especially British and French, colonial empires during... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 11 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion
rich history. The most unexpected insight I gained from speaking with South Koreans was how pleased everyone was with their governmental services. Healthcare is largely government funded, high quality, and quick – with most people... View Details
- Blog
Leading Successful Digital Transformation
transformation in large organizations for three main reasons: Focus on optimization and efficiency: Many companies use technology to cut costs, improve efficiency, or enhance the productivity of their current operations. Artificial... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
startup Understand the process of raising capital and how to speak to investors Who Will Benefit Aspiring Entrepreneurs Early-Stage Entrepreneurs Students Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur with the start of an idea or are exploring entrepreneurship, learn the... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
budget be driven from the revenue targets in the strategic plan. In The Execution Premium, we describe how a time-driven activity-based cost model provides the previously missing link between the revenue growth targets in a strategic plan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
Koehn discovered, Walker had lived an entrepreneurial life that was dramatic and deeply complex on many levels. "I think much of Walker's business model and her animating vision is a product of the constraints that she faced,"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
author Rick Teller explains many mysteries of economics, without needing any graphs, statistics, formulas, or models to do so. Teller answers the big questions: Is macroeconomics even a science? Why have leading economists been given so... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
entrepreneurs are more deliberate than this, beginning by analyzing the existing model in their industry and then layering their own innovation on top. But they still proceed largely by feeling their way,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
disciplines and schools working on similar challenges.” In this conversation, Segneri highlights the broadening of the initial i-lab model as an educational collaborative just for students into a three-lab ecosystem that also engages... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
deploy to buy another company. So, this is actually a very small acquisition for Amazon—very, very small. This aside, the idea behind the business model of One Medical is twofold: to make health care easier to access, and through... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron’s speeches during the period 1943–1955. Second, given that these beliefs are nonstandard (for economists), we present two models formalizing some of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
be displaced in large numbers. Those job losses will be partially offset by job gains for machine learning specialists and emerging jobs like prompt engineers. But, once companies learn how to exploit generative AI, we can anticipate... View Details
- 2010
- Book
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
of tests to make its own estimations. The computer had no way of parsing the language in the jokes, nor did it follow a model indicating what features made a joke funny. Instead, it relied on “collaborative... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman