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- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
U.S. economy and policy. Among the major points of discussion: The importance of right-hand tail companies. Distribution of returns and the tensions between limited and general partners. Human capital: where is it coming from now, and... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
any individual company, it is often better, in the short or intermediate term, to outsource production to an overseas supplier. The company can buy manufacturing services at a much lower rate if it goes to China or elsewhere, depending on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Alice Yang
in numerous public service initiatives, including leading an adult ESL program that served six-hundred people in Boston’s Chinatown. In her senior year, Alice was inspired by a guest speaker in a health care class – Jim Kim, the... View Details
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
clinics and patients, improving access and clinic efficiency. Zyra Sara Kamprad (MBA 2025) Camilla Lopes (MBA 2025) Empowering the U.S. hemp industry with end-to-end brokerage services for sustainable supply... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
institutional catalyst for others' creative endeavors as well as a base for his own. But before that happens, Høegh and some HBS friends will embark on an "Expedition for Education" to Latin America, where they have joined forces with Childreach, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
hundred U.S. automakers, and look at how few there are now. Innovation and Darwinism have always gone hand in hand. But the information-driven economy is here to stay. Every organization is focused on how it can deliver View Details
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
include Lewis Tappan, C. A. Spofford, and Jay Cooke. Collection Guide James McCauley Landis Papers (1924-1945) . Special Collections, Harvard Law School. James Landis was a legal academic and federal regulator. The papers at Harvard Law School relate to Landis’ View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory we find that better information technologies (Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
the case. In the U.S. service sector, which makes up two-thirds of our economy, inflation is still running at 3 percent. So while some manufacturing businesses are experiencing price deflation for the first... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
includes econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on advertising agency costs and intermedia competition in the U.S. national advertising market. He has also studied the changes over time in the concentration and geographical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
twice been named the Best Company to Work For by Washington CEO magazine. I remember sitting in Professor Ray Goldberg’s office during my second year at HBS discussing a project I was working on. His assistant interrupted to tell him that Earl Butz — the View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
crusade in her working paper The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of “Fairness,” 1890–1938, forthcoming in the Business History Review. Gleason, a self-trained and... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the world's largest economy build... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jackie Burgos
desire to see more diverse characters and story lines on Television. At HBS, the Career Services office has been especially supportive of Jackie’s ambition to further continue her success in the Media and Entertainment industry. “I use... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
most countries, there are strong local brands reflecting local tastes that coexist alongside global brands.” Marketing by producers to consumers is as old as the bazaar. But modern marketing is more than just selling. It involves the design of products and View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Open Market Joyce I. Greenberg - Take Good Care Monique Maddy - African Communications Group Steven C. Walske - Parametric Technology Corp. Indeed, from "paperless" magazines to services that search for hard-to-find foreign news stories,... View Details
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