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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
multinational buyers. We find that supplier factories are more likely to comply when they are embedded in states that are active participants in the International Labour Organization treaty regime and that have highly protective domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
in “water-stressed” countries, where either the quantity or the quality of water supplies will have sunk to levels ranging from inadequate to economically crippling. At the same time, another valuable water-infrastructure system, the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
people." The articles in this special section were already in press when the order was issued, and this serendipity further underscores the timeliness of this special section. These articles propose many examples of the very actions that could be taken by federal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
with lower quality ratings from the incumbents: rating levels went up, the correlation between ratings and market-implied yields fell, and the ability of ratings to predict default deteriorated. We offer several possible explanations for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Andres Sarmiento
it before. HBS also prepared me to communicate at different levels with the team of developers, their management, the product managers, the sales team, and our customers. All of whom have different interests and communicate differently... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
an unanswered question as to what extent the important attributes of performance are a part of the firm's organizational capital or embodied in the human capital of the people inside the firm. We examine the performance at the partner-investment View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Kim Chen
program prompted me to think on an individual level about what makes me tick and the strengths I can bring to the table. But then in the classroom we discussed leaders - from the junior analyst who sets a positive example to the iconic... View Details
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Kurt White
effective leadership Attracted by Harvard’s “brand cachet,” Kurt visited a class on campus. “The classroom experience is so much richer that what you could learn on your own,” he says. “I was impressed, and have been increasingly impressed, by the View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)
provide the same outcome. With equity, some people might need additional funds to get to the same level as someone else, and the focus is on balancing the outcome and end state rather than the support given.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
States (US), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of their careers. Women find themselves in a unique bind just... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
encouraged to maximize profits, “Then have the boldness to levy taxes on the recipients of dividends to support the stakeholders you favor ” David Weaver reminded us of Prof. Bruce Scott’s belief that “Capitalism works, and works well, when it operates on ‘a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
decide to reprice the old options, a response that helps going forward but rewards past failure," he says, "or insist that the CEO continue to hold a bunch of near-worthless options that provide very weak incentives down the road." Instead, Hall View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library
Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records. Harvard Business School. HRPBA continued to grow, and students enrolled from all over the United States as well as Canada, England, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, Korea, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
than 35 Israeli-Jordanian and Israeli- Egyptian joint ventures are already up and running. Why are top Middle Eastern business leaders now seeking out strategic alliances with their neighbors? What benefits can regional cooperation at the company View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
independently from their parent organizations. Even in ventures with comparable staffing levels and start dates, those that had separated from the core business were more innovative and had higher market-penetration rates than those that... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
the last two years there's been enormous enthusiasm in the classroom," he observes. "There's still some skepticism around the sustainability of the iPod business, however. It's difficult for people to believe that Apple can maintain that incredible View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
low-income backgrounds. Anderson says their reading improved more than two grade levels over nine months, and they earned high school degree credits at twice the rate of typical high schoolers. Reset’s first residential program facility,... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage, in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to level the investment playing field.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel