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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

Industries, Nations and Time By: Geoffrey Jones NOV 2017 Article Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival By: Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul , Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna FALL 2017 Article Business History... View Details

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

Choice Award: Reel SeafoodsJohn Ahrens, Beverly See, Rob Weeks - Lewis Lab, HarvardCell-based seafood with 3D bioprinting to improve texture and scale. Eco Track JDEI Award: Sun SerumYing Sun, Sophie Levin- Salk InstituteSustainable View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

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Events - Private Capital Project

Indian Private Capital Industry” with Rajan Anandan (Managing Director, Sequoia Capital), Prakul Kaushiva (Managing Director Private Equity, CPP Investments), Renuka Ramnath (Founder, MD and CEO, Multiples Alternate Asset Management), and... View Details

06 Mar 2020
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A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

they are turning inward in an effort to have enough energy to see alternatives where they will feel valued and part of the larger group. But the irony is that the more they worry about their own image, the farther the distance created... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

their actions, the strength of your BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement), and so on—there is a strong likelihood they will make better decisions. For example, if someone says "no" to an offer that you know is in... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

18 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Relocating to Boston with Your Partner

our wedding, or alternatively try out a "bi-coastal" relationship. After deliberating, Megan decided to drop everything and join me on the journey to HBS. Looking back on our two years at HBS, I can honestly say that she had as much (if... View Details

Research Summary

The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

17 Jan 2019
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Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

friend, more workers are scaling back, stepping away, or choosing alternative professional opportunities that help them balance these demands. Companies that ignore this emerging crisis risk losing their hardest-to-find and highest-paid... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

06 Dec 2017
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Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

who will effectively threaten their apparent dominance, including in the US.” Alternatives to a marketwide breakup were suggested. Sacha offered that government power could be used to build competition by giving “chances to newcomers.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling, pesticides, and fertilization that could ultimately endanger the planet’s ability to grow enough food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

when they buy syrup,” he observes. “That’s about a $500 million US market. But today people have started looking for healthier alternatives to sugar in the sweetener market, which is exponentially larger.” “If the maple industry can... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

to green cement and alternative proteins. In addition, partnering to scale next-gen decarbonization solutions through Decarbonization Partners, a fund partnership we have established with BlackRock. Enabling carbon-negative solutions... View Details

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Healthcare Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals The Carlyle Group | Global Alternative Asset Management The Ensign Group The Medicines Company (MDCO) Thermo Fisher Scientific Tufts Health Plan U UMass Memorial Health Care UnitedHealth Group... View Details

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

retailers will need to reconfigure as vast spaces become unproductive. The most obvious victims so far of this shift are music, video, and book retailers—these categories are virtually nonexistent outside the Internet channel. Barnes & Noble is continuously trying... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

22 Feb 2022
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A World of Difference

closest airport), he kept broadening his perspective. He asked a lot of questions. He checked in with the air traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered many alternatives when most of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

School who has created a new MBA course, Public Entrepreneurship. "The course allows students to consider the alternative that government can work—or they can help make it work." “We have many talented people in government, but... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

anything as monumental as a multimillion-dollar feature film." The answer resonates beyond Hollywood, carrying implications for any industry in which the stakes are high, uncertainty looms large, and alternative methods to de-risk ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

word, my manager cut me off with a smile and quipped, “Work hard, play hard. I get it.” Moreover, instead of approaching me with their usual solemn demeanors, my colleagues were suddenly more jovial, alternately teasing me and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

analyzing failure benefit in two ways. First, analyzing a failed drug sometimes reveals that the drug may have a viable alternate use. For example, Pfizer's Viagra was originally designed to be a treatment for angina, a painful heart... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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