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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses—and it’s hard to fault them. The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income people. "The biggest View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created the shadow banking sector. Q: What is your view of the wide income disparity in China today? A: Even... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is solved, the solution in combination with organizational boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. The tools a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In parallel, similar vulnerabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
classmates, Diana Greer and Roberta Lasley (both now deceased), but neither was in any of her classes. "That didn't present a problem for me," she recalls by phone from Houston, Texas. "I was also the only girl in my high-school physics... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
Managerial Economics professor Bing Sung to indicate that some elements of a problem are unknowable and should be recognized as such in our analyses. 1977H. One professor always asked, “Jeremy, who’s going to pay?” 1987E’s motto was “We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2012 Address | About
meaningful career, but to do so in a way that leads to a happy and meaningful life. Today I’d like to offer some ideas for creating a meaningful life in the context of our School’s mission, which is to become leaders who will make a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
CEO of Furman Selz, growing the company more than tenfold. He also creates a happy and abundant family life, though he never forgets what it means to struggle. At age 60, he is reminded of his painful past when a family secret emerges... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
summer at a consumer packaged goods company that makes some of the country’s most well-known brands, I learned how to approach a problem from a marketing perspective. I feel that the additional granularity this gave me is a great... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
to recruit Black students as “painfully insufficient.” He also cited the same inadequate results for recruiting Black faculty and staff. He might as well have been talking about most major business schools; the problem is not unique to... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
there have been so few Black professionals in these positions. “How do you fix that problem of discovery when the board process is such an old boys’ network? It’s not the pipeline that’s the issue; it’s the opportunity.” Aisha Dozie (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
what should the State be doing. What's should the State agencies be doing, what should the Georgia legislature be doing, both budget wise and legislatively. And we were very happy that when the first few months of releasing that white... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers felt that they were being threatened by cheap fish from Vietnam, and local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are borne by diffuse interests,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Before he became a federal judge, the controversial Robert Bork once labeled antitrust "a policy at war with itself." In this case, he was right. Antitrust laws are problematic. That is not, however, to say that they are without value. The View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
him, he and his research team ended up with enough material for a three-part case. Part A opens in June 2007, when the newly appointed Carroll faced a spate of fatalities at the Rustenburg mines. (Anglo American Platinum, which runs the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
organization—taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, which include attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive tasks, pattern recognition, problem solving, and honesty. These... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
anticipates that people who bought tennis rackets might also want some tennis balls, the City might anticipate that people applying for a moving permit might also need to figure out their trash pick-up, parking passes, and voter registration. Just like Lyft solves a... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
curiously thought to be representative of his age. This historiographical problem was clear to many historians in the 1920s and '30s, but was again unfortunately forgotten because of the direction in which economic theory developed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne