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- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
operational effectiveness makes it easier to build domestic capacity, but then makes it really hard to break into Western European or North American markets. Not impossible—think LG, think Samsung—but expensive and challenging. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
services. Tropos began shipping products in September 2003, and by December 2005 the company had over 300 customers and 60 resellers in 29 countries. Accordingly, the company's head count grew from 65 in 2004 to 103 in 2005 and was View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin’s Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. “I was clueless going into Professor Levitt’s course and,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or nothing" decision. Very few respondents choose declining real payout streams over flat or increasing real payout streams of equivalent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
problem is that companies do CSR in fits and starts," Rangan says. "Programs are fragmented, and so they're not that effective in helping the community or the company." And then the CEO wakes up one day and realizes that "we're doing $50... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA
School will conduct an after-action review that may result in referral for discipline. Events The following guidelines outline expectations for members of the community during events and other occasions—apart from class sessions—when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
afterward, which only had the effect of inflating subsequent bubbles, most notably the housing bubble that came as a result of the easy money. So he’s just been unaware of the impact of his encouragement, and his inaction got us into the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
into our lives versus the other way around... I refuse to give in to this disease.” Driven by Jen’s relentlessness and energized by the response to their first fundraiser, the Linns moved forward with Cycle for Survival in 2008. Again, the results exceeded View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
transit and more effective use of heat, water, and energy — would significantly reduce carbon emissions,” says HBS senior lecturer John Macomber, whose real-world background is in real estate, construction, services, and technology. “The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
focusing on and expecting major growth with younger fans (especially ages 6–13), US Hispanics ("more of whom watched the last Super Bowl than the last World Cup final"), and women ("a strong group and getting stronger"). To reach the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
over and the graduate has embarked on his business career, no one will hand him a ‘case.’ ” Instead, Raymond argued, the graduate will have to go out and in effect put together his own case before he can use the skills learned at HBS. WAC... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
all industries, Calkins inspires his readers to create and deliver effective business presentations and pitches. Master Growth Hacking: The Best-Kept Secret of New-Age Indian Start-Ups by Apurva Chamaria (SELP 1, 2017) and Gaurav Kakkar... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
to influence the culture of the bank? He also wondered what other measures might be effective to get employees with diverse backgrounds to work together. How could he create a learning organization at Shinsei Bank? Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
of employees and what will help build a cohesive organization with a single set of ethical standards going forward." Be Prepared In management ranks, Professor Michael Beer, an expert in organizational effectiveness and change, has too... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
motivated by the fact that many scholars in business schools had offered no real policy prescriptions for how the United States could get out of the Depression. Moreover, so many businesspeople had been seen as not necessarily following the highest standards that were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
consumption sharply, which will provoke further business contraction, and so on. And even those workers who have not been laid off—the vast majority—have more reason to be worried than before (because of rising unemployment), more reason to View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
next hour or so. So it's a pretty effective way to get that in there. And then in terms of the things I track, I almost think of it in terms of things that I'll track on a sub-daily, so multiple times a day, or once a day, or once a week,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
affordable rates," Balogun says, adding that his bank expects lending to increase 21 percent a year for the next three years. Here's what all of that looks like in practice: With a $500 input loan, 22-year-old Jamila Josua was able to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who... View Details