business proposals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2012
News

Ideas

with Gary P. Pisano Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. More Faculty Research Online HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2008
News

What Went Wrong?

Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2010
News

Slum for Sale

area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new model in mind: slums as lucrative and socially entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

Mar 2012
Article

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

The United States is on a glide path to fiscal disaster, with experts projecting that the federal government will take in far less money than it spends--indefinitely. Our current fiscal policy is eroding competitiveness in several ways, and View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

to be an extremely risky decision made by a sports fanatic, but in time it proved to be a winning business move. The decision to buy the Patriots fits a pattern that Kraft developed at a young age. He is a man who believes that anything... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

popularity in the field. Finally, some writers have implicitly "defined" entrepreneurship by restricting their study to the process of starting new ventures, apparently on the assumption that entrepreneurial activity is in large part confined to the phase of... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

a new toothpaste that had helped drive Colgate to a record value share in the important U.S. market, was in the global pipeline for 2005. Burton had on his desk the proposed marketing launch plans for CMF in China and Mexico. Each plan... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2011
News

Perception versus Reality

rubbed off on the School, which set a speed record in approving the trio’s proposal for a pilot program to sprinkle $50,000 in seed money on student start-ups. The Minimum Viable Product Fund, dubbed MVP, attracted 88 teams vying for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; contests; awards; meta

01 Mar 2010
News

Analyze This

Story ideas sometimes come from unexpected places. I would hazard to guess that this issue of the Bulletin offers a first in the magazine’s long history. Inspired by a copy of our international mailing list, Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

14 Jun 2024
News

Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

(DBA 1972) (MIT Press) China is moving from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation, and western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China The authors explain this transformation and View Details

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

and other pressing issues. The diverse audience emphasized the universal nature of the challenges and opportunities facing women in business today, while fostering rich discussions across cultural and generational lines. Dean Srikant... View Details

16 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

business. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609011 China's Evolving Labor Laws Harvard Business School Case 308-092 The (A) case describes key provisions of the new labor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

best shot at preventing a future financial meltdown is to be honest about the inevitable risk posed by our biggest financial institutions, and to impose tough and targeted regulation in response. This very conclusion was reached by the Treasury Department in its... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2009
News

Alumni Books

es-says by the cocreator of the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc. Bricklin discusses how people and technologies — cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, and personal Web sites, among others — affect one another and how the technologies can be improved. Rain: What a Paperboy... View Details

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

contributed to the financial turmoil that followed. This performance has come under tremendous scrutiny by lawmakers and regulators, who are debating ways to reform the ratings industry. One prominent suggestion: increased competition. But recent research from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

for her opening address at the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Conference on March 1. The daylong event, heralded in advance by Forbes as one of the top business gatherings for 2009, was organized by students from HBS and the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

Stacks of shipping containers waiting to be filled with export goods. ralfgosch In March, when the Trump administration released its proposed tariffs list against China, I was eager to get a look. After all, these are the products from... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential By: Kaplan, Robert Steven Abstract—How do you create your own definition of success-and reach your unique... View Details