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- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
wealth, has developed an endowment model that eschews direct investments. Instead, the Norwegians have evolved into a world-class portfolio investor that predominantly makes asset allocation decisions. For U.S. regulators, these patterns... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
from frustration with the existing supply, agreed the panelists. Entrepreneurship, in part, is the skill of connecting different patterns in order to create a product or service that's more useful and convenient, said Stephani Khurana... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by having them play hopscotch with... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
are consistent with the hypothesis that firms controlled by large shareholders with excess control rights choose public debt financing over bank debt as a way of avoiding scrutiny and insulating themselves from bank monitoring. Multivoxel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace structures, practices, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
pattern of actions guide it. He is attempting to give you that philosophy and pattern of action, and to help you develop your own." George E. McCown (HBS MBA '62), Research Assistant to Georges Doriot, 1962... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
research point of view, we want to get a better understanding of why some firms are more transparent than others about their environmental practices and performance," Toffel explains. In the second project, the researchers hope that usage View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
avoid backsliding into dysfunctional routines—habitual patterns of negative behavior by individuals and groups that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by familiar circumstances or stimuli. Employees need help maintaining new... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
The System What hasn't changed? The temptation of standard options, among other bait. Standard options remain the dominant pay pattern in American businesses today, he said. Most academics have never favored standard options and regard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
already have a bunch of faculty who are jumping all over this.” Just as HBS pioneered the case method and nurtured its adoption in business education around the globe, Moon is cautiously optimistic that the latest curriculum changes will repeat that View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
know, no substantive solutions were reached. Instead, “markets” provided the best regulation. By 2011, according to a Pew Research Center study, the number of Mexican-born residents in the US had actually begun to decline as the Mexican economy began providing more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
trend in global labor markets. In the end, students grapple with a very recent phenomenon for entrepreneurial companies—they may start global for the first phases of development and then consolidate into a single location, the opposite of traditional View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months. We predict and find that people are more likely to rent DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
tended to receive more approval than false headlines,” Jordan explains. Even politically favorable headlines shared on Twitter tend to elicit more approval if they are accurate. “The pattern whereby accurate headlines received more... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
kind, and generous with their time and expertise. Every part of this course will be a fantastic way for students to learn and engage firsthand,” she said. “We saw and learned the traffic patterns influenced by cars, cows, and pedestrians... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
secondary skill-set. The former venture capitalists had the pattern recognition needed for narrowing the ideation funnel while the serial entrepreneurs knew what it took to execute. The engineers built a great piece of technology while... View Details