Filter Results:
(4,335)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,335)
- People (13)
- News (1,117)
- Research (2,597)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (1,418)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,335)
- People (13)
- News (1,117)
- Research (2,597)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (1,418)
William R. Kerr
William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Tommy Koh: Background and Major Accomplishments of the 'Great Negotiator, 2014'
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
Significant negotiation-related achievements from career of Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of his background and career. In light of these accomplishments, Koh was selected as the recipient of the 2014 Great... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; International Relations; Personal Development and Career; United States; Singapore; Baltic Countries; Southeast Asia
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Tommy Koh: Background and Major Accomplishments of the 'Great Negotiator, 2014'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-049, December 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
- Web
Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
What enables a country to produce and commercialize a flow of innovative technology over time? Societal Issues Health Care Redefining the delivery of health care around value for patients. Restructuring care... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
on Wall Street. And W.R. Grace's Peter Grace told us he wouldn't invest in Third World countries unless he had over 50 percent ownership. What would he say today? Verbosity ruled. Classroom performances were... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
as customer acquisition, on-time delivery, developing new services and products, and running efficiently. But operating performance is also a result; it is derivative of human... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- Web
Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy Frameworks & Key Concepts Michael Porter & Competitiveness In 1990, Michael Porter published The Competitive Advantage of Nations , an examination of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. The... View Details
- Web
Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
cluster-oriented economic development organizations to collaborate and profile their work. In the meantime the cluster mapping approach developed at ISC has been adopted in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Macmillan) This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the... View Details
- 2020
- Chapter
Construction and Public Procurement in Uganda
By: Emanuele Colonnelli and Nicole Ntungire
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Infrastructure; Economic Growth; Construction Industry; Uganda
Colonnelli, Emanuele, and Nicole Ntungire. "Construction and Public Procurement in Uganda." Chap. 15 in Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa, edited by John Page and Finn Tarp, 326–348. Oxford University Press, 2020.
- 20 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
pandemic. An increase in risk perception makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features, which, in turn, provides producers greater incentives to develop and commercialize technologies that address... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- May 2024
- Case
Naked Wines: The Profit vs. Growth Decision
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Nick Devlin faced a difficult strategic decision in October 2022. As the CEO of a UK-based subscription business connecting wine drinkers in the US, UK, and Australia with winemakers from around the world (which one journalist called the “Netflix of Wine”), he had to... View Details
Keywords: Profit Vs. Growth; Platform Business; Economies Of Scale; Subscription Business; Wine; Scaling; Racing; Value Creation; Network Effects; Business Startups; Small Business; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Profit; E-commerce; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Australia; United Kingdom
Esty, Benjamin C., and Edward A. Meyer. "Naked Wines: The Profit vs. Growth Decision." Harvard Business School Case 724-462, May 2024.
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
While many countries are facing mounting economic, social, and political challenges, Karen Wilson (MBA 1991) says that “there’s a lot of potential in leveraging private sector approaches to address these... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
collaboration across the boardroom-classroom divide. The barriers hindering such collaboration should not be ignored, the participants agreed. But, they said, the alliances that stand to be forged and the opportunities that can be View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health - Health Care
The course provides an understanding of how business can play a significant role in improving the quality of life of low- income individuals and households especially in developing View Details
- March 2022
- Case
In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Pierre Marchesseault
To Cédric Jeannot, leveraging technology to promote financial inclusion was personal. After no established financial institution would accept his technology platform to lower transaction costs for free, Jeannot launched FinTech company Be Mobile Africa in May 2020.... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Fintech; Emerging Market; Fundraising; Financial Inclusion; Strategy; Expansion; Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Togo; Nigeria; Ghana
Cohen, Lauren, Grace Headinger, and Pierre Marchesseault. "In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent." Harvard Business School Case 222-073, March 2022.
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
look at the data and it's very clear. That since the early 1990s there's been a subtle and but pretty constant degradation in the average level of happiness in the United States. View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 2022
- Working Paper
Innovation on Wings: Nonstop Flights and Firm Innovation in the Global Context
By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Do Yoon Kim and Wesley W. Koo
We study whether, when, and how better connectivity through nonstop flights leads to positive innovation outcomes for firms in the global context. Using unique data of all flights emanating from 5,015 airports around the globe from 2005 to 2015 and exploiting a... View Details
Keywords: Nonstop Flights; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research and Development; Air Transportation Industry
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Do Yoon Kim, and Wesley W. Koo. "Innovation on Wings: Nonstop Flights and Firm Innovation in the Global Context." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-009, July 2022.