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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM), and they have equivalent contributions in outcomes like granted patents and entrepreneurial firm starts. These contributions are increasing, up from 10%-15% just a couple of decades ago. And... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
find that the classification of software applications within this architecture, as being either Core or Peripheral, is a significant predictor of the costs of architectural change. Using OLS regression models, we show that this measure has greater predictive power than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
and a half years, two years in New York and then a couple years in Los Angeles. And it was a wonderful first place to work. Very tough place to work in terms of hours and things like that. And we had decided to live in suburban New... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
heartbeat spiked and my hands started to tremble slightly. I took a couple of deep breaths and started scanning for targets. Through the remote weapon system, I saw five individuals maneuvering amongst prepared fighting positions. I began... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
leader and a better human being for embracing the pain of this experience. Barry Rowan (MBA 1983) EVP & CFO, Cool Planet Energy Systems Seventh time’s a charm When I left HBS my plan was to work for a small company for a couple of years... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
the tire companies were investing in old technology and in the technology that was making it obsolete—at the same time. Eventually the capital markets had their way. Q: What are you both working on next? Gilbert: Right now I am looking at a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
vertically integrated,” he notes. “Studios used to be stand-alone companies that were run like fiefdoms. Now they’re run like major corporations answering to shareholders.” Skyrocketing fees for star actors coupled with the high marketing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
change in directions that favor new sets of interests (for a review, see Battilana, 2010). A second factor that contributes to institutional change is determining whether the processes are endogenous to the everyday functioning of institutions, such as the loose View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
would trade a couple of years of doing what you’re doing.” And the same for me. I’m like, “Yeah, it would be nice to have some money in the bank, too.” So we have a good laugh about that. It’s a tough thing to have both. I hear people all... 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
mind. The input of others, coupled with intuition, are key—it's important to listen to one's inner voice even when analyzing and drawing on the advice of others. Sonya Brown (MBA 2002), partner, Norwest Venture Partners, Palo Alto,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
policy reforms flounder. Unlike incremental policy reforms, they are often seen to be politically risky and prone to failure. Using examples of success and failure, coupled with insights from practitioners and academics who have succeeded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
for Xbox and play games with her and Toedebusch, Bond says, “after they’ve done their homework and brushed their teeth and picked up their rooms and fed their lizard.” And the couple have continued the mission of looking at their careers... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
grateful at the end of it, whether it was-- I've had a couple of near-death experiences in my life. You know, or having children that were born prematurely and sitting in the NICU, right, you're grateful as you get through it. Or my wife... View Details