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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
example.” Open door: “I started doing office hours a couple of years ago. It’s a great way for me to connect with the employees. It could be that you’ve got a grievance. It could be that you’ve got a business idea. It could be that you... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
consumer-based economy? China is a land of engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
market share or whatnot and so the opportunity narrows. That was not the case with Cloudflare. A couple of years in we realized our opportunity had expanded and that we were thinking too narrowly. And that actually we should really think... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
coupled with various programs to address the frozen credit markets and depressed investors' confidence. Yet the burning question in every policymaker's mind was—how effective would the various plans work to revive the U.S. economy?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
that? A: You're right. There has been very little academic research done on project finance to date. In fact, there have been only a couple of articles directly on project finance published in the leading finance journals, and not more... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
percent. When surviving “examination hell” and college itself doesn’t offer any guarantees—why bother at all? So, is lying flat here to stay? Or is it just fun to say? The overriding culture of hard work in China will continue, Kirby believes: “I shouldn’t be surprised... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
two vantage points. I think telemedicine has been like a plane heading down a runway for a long time and not getting the lift that it needed to take off. In a matter of weeks, it is now soaring. At Mass General a couple of months ago,... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
to cross the border. Getting a visa to Nigeria once took me a couple of months. It's very inefficient. And that's, in fact, the worst part about traveling in Africa are the borders and the visas. It is really a pain. But they are making... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
it basically, got started around a couple of my passions-- one being, at the time, windsurfing, which later grew in a kitesurfing. And technology start ups, which is what I do for a living, as a venture capitalist. White: Tell me what it... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership contributed to its growth in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
the auction texts. As this understanding spread, the value of modern Indian artworks increased significantly. The average price of a work at auction went from approximately $6,000 in the first six years of auctions to approximately $44,000 in the next six years of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
classes assigned to their patents by the U.S. Patent Office. Inventors whose patents are all in one class, or in just a couple of classes, are said to be more specialized. These results confirmed our initial hunch based on my own... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
worker-management culture. However, the company was best known for its compensation system, paying its workers on a piecework basis, coupled with bonuses based on company revenues. Although this often resulted in average annual pay for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
difficult-to-quantify constructs like meaning-making seem less useful as an analytical construct. Put more crudely, return on investment makes for a more tractable dependent variable than meaning. Q: How do you think leadership matters to an organization? A: For the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spread of long-term interest rates over short-term interest rates is notoriously difficult to predict. Thus even as the Fed raises short-term interest rates over the next few months, we might not see long-term interest rates increasing in the same proportion. In fact,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
ended up placing several players there, and within a matter of a couple years, all of a sudden I found that I had about three dozen players in maybe 10 different countries. And then calls started coming in. Remember, this is before emails... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
worker-management culture. However, the company was best known for its compensation system, paying its workers on a piecework basis, coupled with bonuses based on company revenues. Although this often resulted in average annual pay for... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
their own revenue contributions and business expenses in Will. Four times a year, the balances of individual P-Will accounts were converted to real currency and paid out as bonuses. In the last couple of years, about 10 companies,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
fetal position at the end of the day. What other aspects of remote work are you currently exploring? For the past couple of years, my focus has been on how we can develop a digital mindset: How do we rethink our approaches to work driven... View Details