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    Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

    The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
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    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    has the potential to transform knowledge workers' roles, processes, and practices. To understand AI's potential, we must differentiate between its applications as externally facing—enhancing product offerings—and internally facing—aimed... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, February 28

    Strategies By: Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

    Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 03 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

    for the international community is to keep the oil flowing. The United States and United Nations began to accomplish this by imposing selective sanctions that will allow oil to be exported but deny Gaddafi the resulting revenues.... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
    • 19 Feb 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 19

    Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (SANY), SANY Group's major subsidiary, engaged in the construction equipment business and was number six on International Construction's 2012 Yellow Table, a ranking of the world's largest construction equipment... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work

    By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Frank Nagle
    Knowledge work is becoming increasingly challenging as pace of change in the knowledge frontier is increasing. Organizations have created multiple mechanisms to minimize knowledge gaps and increase learning such internal training, mentorship programs as well as... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source; Future Of Work; Software Development; Knowledge Work; Online Community; Learning; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity
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    • 22 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 22

    restatements can represent an absence of errors, it can also indicate a lack of detection and disclosure of errors and irregularities. We infer the magnitude of detection and disclosure by associating the frequency of restatements with the quality of the firm's View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 28, 2015

    some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of the firm; others View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 10 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

    had from such a historical understanding of political economy and of power in an economic age. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53309 forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

    In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and... View Details
    • 01 Jan 2012
    • News

    Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

    The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, the social... View Details
    • 02 Aug 2022
    • Blog Post

    From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

    enough to join Ford as a Machine Learning Researcher. I wrote software, generated intellectual property, and talked about autonomous vehicles in international industry conferences. In late 2018, I realized that commercially launching... View Details
    • 09 Jan 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    When Benchmarks Don’t Work

    for very long. After all, an outsourcer of these services enjoys economies of scale that virtually no internal support unit can hope to match. An outsourcer can shift operations to the lowest-cost regions of... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
    • March 2004 (Revised September 2005)
    • Case

    Newell Rubbermaid: Strategy in Transition

    By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Rhonda Kaufman and Carole Winkler
    Describes the transformation of a company's corporate-level strategy. Begins by laying out the strategy that brought the Newell Co. stunning success for nearly three decades. The highly integrated, internally consistent strategy was tailored for manufacturing and... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Acquisition; Product Development; Brands and Branding; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 11 Apr 2024
    • News

    Mission Control

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
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    Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

    (HMC).... Frances X. Frei UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders create the conditions for... View Details
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    10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    Generation Next

    generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
    • 2008
    • Article

    The Gordon Research Conferences As Scientific Infrastructure

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Leah Shaper
    Conferences serve as a crucial part of scientific infrastructure by offering participants the opportunity to announce novel findings, discuss research methods, and take part in a variety of networking activities. Presenting papers and learning about unpublished new... View Details
    Keywords: Conferences; Interpersonal Communication; Infrastructure; Science-Based Business; Social and Collaborative Networks
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