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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
some immigrants could add billions to government coffers rather than be a drain on the economy. Nor have fears of immigrants as national security threats been borne out. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014 Revised immigration... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
United States. More generally, the presence of highly competitive local firms in the United States undercuts efforts by foreign multinationals that don’t have truly differentiated capabilities. Simply replicating strategies that were... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business and national recovery in the long run hasn’t been well understood, however. Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
fortune." "I saw no reason to hold off until I was older or retired to share my good fortune." After college, Rauner wasted little time enrolling at HBS, entering the School at age 23. Midway through the second year of the MBA Program, he was recruited by Stan Golder,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
rapid as possible. Step on the gas! —Randy Shayler (MBA 2012) Iron out the model first, then roll it out. Build national demand and reputation by executing flawlessly locally—solve a complex and broad problem well enough, and your... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and Sharp - remain on that path, and they are all in Japan. In computers, the Japanese have been and remain major challengers to the U.S. industry, with growing market share in large systems, servers, and software. These have been extraordinary developments. The View Details
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
expression in the arts” with an emphasis on industrial and commercial arts. 24 The Center hosted several shows including “Foreign Advertising Photography” in 1931, which introduced viewers to international trends. In 1932 the Center mounted its “First View Details
- Profile
Aaron Chadbourne
another interest: entrepreneurial approaches to social and public policy issues. For his second summer internship, Aaron received a social enterprise fellowship from HBS and worked with the Housing Partnership Network in Boston, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
going to have to use our strength in numbers to change the national la-la-land conversation on retirement-income security.” —Elizabeth White (MBA 1988), on navigating the financial challenges she faced, from Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
of Business Administration, Emeritus. Yoshino is an expert in the areas of global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. He served as a director of Research twice — from 1987 to 1994 and from 1997 to 2002.... View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
another. By 1868, the Steinway Company was allocating more than $50,000 toward advertising with the aim of linking the Steinway name with a widely esteemed product. Companies “experimented with national marketing View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
travelers. "I can fly in from Australia or Asia and be through LAX in as little as 20 minutes." Also: "Never check a bag. And always pack snacks." Popular Princess itinerary: A 10-day Alaska tour, with 7 days on ship and 3 on land, including time at exclusive... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Director of Strategy and Analytics at the NYC Department of Education. I learned more about the amazing change that can be catalyzed from the intersection of business and government. It was then that I also decided to apply and was... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
Karen Mills is a Senior Fellow with the Harvard Business School. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. Brayden McCarthy is Vice President of Strategy for... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
boundaries of these learning behaviors. We find that effective virtual teams, like co-located teams, engage in both reflective and action-oriented learning behaviors. However, the virtual context highlights distinct participation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace