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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they operate in. It also examines how... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
The various components of a channel (whether within a supplier or within a third-party vendor) may be able to improve operations by taking advantage of new technologies, but usually there is no one at the helm guiding the activities of... View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
Prevost apparently had no special training in reading nonverbal communication and assumed that Moussaoui was a typical customer. But the coupling of an odd statement and a flush jolted Prevost into realizing that things were not as they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at NJ/NY Gotham FC, a National... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
problems involved in establishing and operating new enterprises. The course is intended primarily for students who contemplate going into business for themselves." The first course devoted to entrepreneurship established at HBS, MNE, in... View Details
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and acquisitions, Canada's fifth largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
chairman of the Tata Group, a $22 billion conglomerate with 93 companies operating in areas as diverse as IT and communications, steel, financial services, hotels, and consumer goods ranging from tea to china to automobiles. “There was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
stood at a crossroads. It was, by any measure, the preeminent business school in the world. Indisputably, it was the largest, in terms of MBA enrollment, size of faculty, endowment, and operating budget. Its research budget alone — some... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Growing Up Creative: Nurturing a Lifetime of Creativity. More recently, Amabile drew on that interview and subsequent correspondence with Irving for an article she wrote for a special section on creativity in American Psychologist.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
Schwab. With the company originally conceived as an alternative to traditional brokerages, Schwab's breakthrough, Goldman asserts, was to understand the Internet as more than just a new tool for fine-tuning its original specialization as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
operations intertwined. Working Together in Crises Authors:Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch", and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Crisis Response Journal Abstract No abstract available. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
being called out. There was a randomness and arbitrariness to it that was disorienting. Similarly, companies with significant international operations would find themselves suddenly disrupted. Companies were concerned about being caught... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
many new banks. There was no telling what the economic impact of the bill's special bank note provisions would be. Once the bill passed the legislature, Governor Marcy had to decide whether to sign this radical proposal into law. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
case in the course that at that point was called POM—Production and Operations Management—and the section gave me a round of applause because it never happened before that the same person was called to open twice in a day. So of course I... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
tragedy and met with groups of students and staff. He held a special faculty meeting on September 17 to discuss ways to address the events of September 11 on an academic level. A number of proposals emerged, including discussion groups... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
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exploit or create derivative works of Harvard Business School Online Content. You may not reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise access the source code for any software that may be used to operate any of the Services.... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
operating business, like a specialized business field, so they went to companies like Procter or McKinsey, because that was where they could develop more business skills while they hung out and waited for... View Details