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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
II, Tata was able to navigate his family-owned companies through the tumultuous political climate of India. He worked with British colonial officers, and later closely with several Indian leaders under both pro- and anti-business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2017 Address | About
remarkable global political events: Great Britain’s surprise decision to leave the European Union, one of the most contentious American elections in our nation’s history, and, just recently, the closely-watched presidential race in... 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
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
to be taken for granted, regardless of their efficiency implications. However, the institutional perspective does not address the fundamental issue of business strategy necessary to explain the persistence of substantially different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
bias that riddles medical care, and to explore how we can do better in a diverse twenty-first-century America. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) Knopf The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed,... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
broad lessons for any manager who has to manage or deal with inspections. “One implication is that bias issues will arise, so take them into account as you look at the inspection reports as data,” Ibáñez says. “And another is that we... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
of government in the urbanization process. There's always the hope that government can wave a magic wand and fix these problems, but generally government can't. It is either paralyzed by politics or a lack of money. So the private sector... View Details
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
engage in a constructive debate about the topics and issues being discussed. The interaction allowed for each person to raise their perspectives and question others’ opinions efficiently and actively. WHAT DID YOU LIKE THE MOST ABOUT THE... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
be taken. The briefings were led mainly by health and epidemiology experts who had limited political affiliation. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
and entrepreneurial management, done with colleagues C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr. at the University of Michigan. Their research will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. In this interview, Desai... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- May 20, 2016
- Comment
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
By: John A. Quelch
When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low energy, its representatives... View Details
Keywords: Global Health; World Health Organization; World Bank; Pandemics; Emergency Preparedness; Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Communication Strategy; Nonverbal Communication; Framework; Governance; Government and Politics; Health; Management; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare or Wellbeing; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Public Administration Industry; Tourism Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; South America; West Indies
Quelch, John A. "World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 20, 2016).
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
linked to politics, economics, and ecology. Any bit of news, such as an oil tanker spill, a technical problem at a plant, or a political crisis in 1 of their sourcing countries, can send their share prices into a tailspin. Even good news... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Industry Author:Arthur Daemmrich Abstract Fiercely contested before, during, and since its passage, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will restructure the U.S. healthcare market if fully implemented in coming years. This article describes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
August 2013 Journal of Political Economy Standard Essential Patents By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
based in part on the likelihood of obtaining patents and in part on the projected cash flows of the business under various scenarios. This case examines issues of intellectual property in science, international differences in patent law,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2020
- Technical Note
Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force
By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal
This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Australia; North and Central America; United States; Illinois; Chicago; California; San Francisco
Narayandas, Das, Michael Norris, and Amram Migdal. "Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force." Harvard Business School Technical Note 521-019, July 2020.
- June 2020 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
TraceTogether
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "TraceTogether." Harvard Business School Case 820-111, June 2020. (Revised January 2024.)
- July – August 2009
- Article
Restoring American Competitiveness
By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value; Production; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competency and Skills; Service Industry; United States
Pisano, Gary P., and Willy C. Shih. "Restoring American Competitiveness." Harvard Business Review 87, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2009). (Winner of McKinsey Award. First Place For the best articles published each year in the Harvard Business Review presented by McKinsey & Company.)
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
helped him focus. After high school, Simmons majored in political science at Yale, then went to work on Wall Street. “I wasn’t as thoughtful about the kind of career I wanted when I graduated as I should have been,” he says of his first... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna