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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
The problems facing business and society are increasingly complex. Developing solutions to global challenges requires a faculty adept at field work, cross-sector collaboration, complex data analysis, and intensive laboratory work, as well... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
feel good, especially when it comes to our purchasing decisions. To that end, many major corporations have begun to take special interest in how understanding the human brain can help them better understand... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
you tell us about the fruits of your collective labors now that you have all returned? A: We're excited about the projects underway under the umbrella of both the Harvard University South Asia Initiative and the Harvard School of Public Health's View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
on. Managers can understand how to think about the list of institutions and a framework of enumerating them. Q: You describe "emerging giants" as "a small but growing set of companies that have built world-class capabilities to challenge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
global context. Hayes and Vogel, coauthors of the 1998 book Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return, explored issues of doing business in Islamic countries at a presentation in late January. Hayes noted that despite a common... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
Class of 2013. With more faculty and student diversity, and more international context in courses and cases, the MBA experience itself shifted toward a more global perspective. “Students now develop a keen View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
A better understanding of these deeper relationships is the most important outcome of this work. Q: Your data shows the ethnic composition of U.S. scientists and engineers undergoing a significant transformation, with contributions of... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of trusted appointees (known internally as the "Dutch Mafia"), whose understanding of Philips technology, commercial objectives, and overall strategy provided the major link between the parent company and its dispersed national... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
behavior, the area where he has devoted his professional career at HBS. He also came to understand “how being an academic in many ways resembles being an entrepreneur, in that I have the opportunity to decide what ideas to pursue.”... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
studying the broader consequences of reform. We have some preliminary evidence that reforms provide multinationals with assurances that encourage the use of more efficient global production arrangements. In developing countries that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
approaching things," speculates Marquis. "Our assumption is that this will then have an influence on the local company. Having all of those influences somehow breaks down the effect." As companies put more of a focus on CSR, understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
globalism spread. Few Muslims today live lives linked to truly universal Islamic institutions that provide governance, education, economies, legal systems, or cultural expression. Instead, the author describes a civilization in name only,... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
that worked in microfinance. Today a lot of things in microfinance seem so natural; one forgets that when they got developed they were very novel. Part of what is interesting in Project Antares is understanding why some interventions... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation
Dick Simon (MBA 1980) is CEO of RSI, Inc., a Boston-based real estate development and investment management company, and founder and chair of the kNOwTHEM Initiative. In this video, he discusses the need for leaders to understand their... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
for this ... saying that I am selling out our interest. You know, I'm an economist, not a photographer. I understand perfectly well what interest is. Interest is subject to accounting." Nationalists, in stark contrast, never think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
associates Chisato Toyama (MBA ’99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. As head of the first-year required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Paine notes that she often looks for opportunities to bring a global perspective to the... View Details
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Ruth Cenat
history that have shaped the world we live in. Through what I’ve learned so far, I understand not only what something is but why. That's further complemented by the who, which takes the form of various experiences my classmates have... View Details