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- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
is likely to have a meaningful effect on health care spending patterns. In addition, precision medicines can change the expected profitability of therapies both by allowing more sophisticated pricing systems and potentially decreasing the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
assignment frictions, which appear to be more severe in lower-income regions. The productivity loss generated by inefficient assignment is equal to 13% of the productivity gap between high- and low-income countries in our sample. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
trust through warmth and understanding. Most leaders today approach their jobs by emphasizing competence, strength, and credentials. But without first building a foundation of trust, they run the risk of eliciting fear, resentment, or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
(cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left, Dylan Soukup, Charlie Li, Arden Kreeger, and Nitzan Israel (all MBA 2024). Photos View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
multidivisional enterprises that have diversified into related product lines. The present book aims to fill in this gap in the literature by adopting a coherent approach to this elusive subject. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database, we analyze the locations of new establishments of biopharmaceutical firms in the U.S. in 1993–2005. We consider all activities in the value chain and allow location choices to vary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service
describes his journey to the Marine Corps as one inspired by his father’s immigrant roots and the events of 9/11. The story of his father’s emigration from Mexico to the suburbs of Los Angeles, and his work as a ranch hand while attending... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Nohria’s Next Move
In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds technology-enabled companies.” Thrive is managed View Details
- 25 Jan 2023
- News
The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason
to the CFO office at Citi. In the interview, Mason talks about growing up in Queens, in a family full of business-minded people, but wanting to be a doctor when he was a child. Even from a young age there were signs that he had a knack... View Details
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
chance of success than at home. — John Heard reflecting on his first trip to China in 1841, from his diary, 1891 4 Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business Augustine Heard grew up in Ipswich, Massachusetts, surrounded by ships... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
that has defined the transformational experience of an HBS MBA. "Will we continue to get the most promising young students and future leaders and attract the most remarkable faculty and staff that creates this transformational experience... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Another First
DESJARDINS: Heads Air Force Academy. PHOTO BY DAVID BITTON/COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE Brig. Gen. Susan Y. Desjardins (TGMP 14, 2004), a veteran cargo- and refueling-plane pilot and commander, became the first... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
resignation and explained why she was leaving the firm by detailing her unsustainable schedule as both a corporate lawyer and a mother to young children. Both memos were leaked on the Internet, prompting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
working in the House of Representatives as a congressional intern. Why did you choose to attend an HBCU? After going on an HBCU college tour, I fell in love with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The people I met made me feel like I was part... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
loved the exchange of ideas. He loved seeing young people who were eager to learn.” Levitt was born in 1925 in Vollmerz, Germany, and moved with his family to Dayton, Ohio, a decade later to escape the encroaching Nazi threat. Drafted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group,... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
recalled, "The general provides the two things that a young scientific organization most needs–enthusiasm and appreciation. Like all the others, I started out with a hatful of ideas and a lot of long-range plans. In a couple of years, I... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Science. Vol. 1, edited by Susan S. Silbey, 367-398. England: Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 2008 Abstract During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace