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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
for success while avoiding common traps. Filled with practical examples, this book will help you prepare and manage your job search; build your network to be an exponential multiplier for you; be ready when you meet recruiting teams; and... View Details
- Career Coach
Carole Carlson
Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
reward their own drives." Inspired by the writings and insights of Charles Darwin, specifically his 1871 masterwork The Descent of Man, Lawrence's new book, Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, offers managers an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including economics, finance, and marketing, have successfully incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models and theories. In this paper, we argue that operations View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of finance at the Boston office of one such organization, The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB), which has... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Who Will Benefit Senior Managers and Consultants Analysts Aspiring Finance Professionals Use financial tools and metrics to inform strategic decision-making and drive business performance. The program expertly leads you through... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
Crashes, explains that after a bubble bursts—during what he calls the “revulsion” phase—most investors lose their appetite for risk taking. Our collective conservatism in the immediate wake of the dot-com crash might be seen as what View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
programming for a life insurance company, and once he finished his law degree he stuck around and rose to become the firm’s secretary and general counsel. Along the way, however, Freeman realized he was more interested in general View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
economic growth has stagnated, and poverty is on the rise. Most people in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia are poorer today than they were ten years ago, and most Africans were better off forty years ago. The average per... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of 2010, Yum China's revenues surpassed U.S. revenues for the first time, and many analysts expected that Yum's China business—driven by a rapidly growing middle class—would be twice as large as its U.S. business within five years. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
of Maine by Colgate—to ascertain what is distinctive about the merger process and to analyze the elements critical to success. We develop suggestions about how other companies considering similar arrangements might best manage the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
process does not have these features, deal price should receive no weight. This approach would represent a middle ground between the competing approaches advanced by 29 law, economics, and finance professors in the DFC Global appraisal,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Unpacking Hidden Risk in the Trusted Treasury Market | Working Knowledge
sufficiently large positive haircuts ( the value of the collateral promised exceeds the amount of cash borrowed). If we were to, say, try to regulate hedge funds like we have dealer banks, then you may start to find asset managers doing... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
violence, willingness to settle and make peace are remarkably flexible and dependent upon these cues. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55574 November 2018 Review of Middle East Studies Syrian Refugees in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
this?" He noted three different models for developing these standards: an industry leader setting the standard, to their own benefit but for the good of the industry, as well; a more collaborative, but very slow, industry association model; and a View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss