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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per capita gross domestic product in... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble those of economic catastrophe bonds-bonds that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
huge impact on the economy of Peru, where so many people work in the industry. If you want to have that kind of impact, it's not enough for people to admire and appreciate what you are doing—you have to have the numbers. HBSWK: What would... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
“We, along with our companies, are making our plans in several different subjects.” FEBRUARY 15 Ebru A. Kohen and Ozgur Firtina (both OPM 43, 2013) are sharing their perspective on the disaster and are offering advice on how to help in an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
We find that location fundamentals including market access and comparative advantage and agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a particularly important role in multinationals'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
marks clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It shows how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling. In order to prosper, business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
while the Explorers Club expedition formed, so had its geopolitics. At home, any hope that the American economy would rebound after Black Tuesday had disappeared as wages declined and unemployment grew, plunging the nation into what would... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some debate over what is important at a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
first vaccine doses administered in the West, and saved thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. In The Long Shot, Bingham shares an insider’s view into how the Vaccine Task Force beat the odds, and delivered a scientific... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Publications 2014 AMACOM Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy By: Brown, Paul B., Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—It used to be that if you studied and worked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
of those, much to the shame of this country.” When approaching a project, Singer says he first takes in an event’s or a life’s full span through extensive reading, research, and interviews, cherry-picking moments that tell the story with the greatest View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
its no-frills offering. LAN came to that insight by analyzing the major assets that the models share and the compatibility of the models' operational resources and capabilities. It recognized that the more the models have in common, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
2011), and I—have complementary consulting and research backgrounds and a shared passion to serve the global poor. Together, we decided that IDinsight was the best way for us to make an impact. This year, we will have 20 employees helping... View Details