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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
with the Japanese," says M. James Kondo (MBA 1997), Twitter's managing director, East Asia, explaining the social-media company's popularity in Japan. "Japanese was the first non-English language that Twitter supported—we now support over 30 languages—and Tokyo was... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
obstacles will never be confronted or overcome. Honeywell What does the Honeywell example teach us? Mainly, the difference between the pacesetters and the laggards in the wanna-dot race. Pacesetters embrace the Internet as an opportunity for questioning their existing... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
investor at that point was Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle. In early 2000, Farrington met the firm’s other co-founder and then flew to California to meet with Larry Ellison. NetLedger’s business model was ambitious and it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
an organization creates significant social value, we don’t care how it sustains itself — with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet we really don’t know much about... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
learning. The HBS Economic Model What distinguishes the HBS economic model is a commitment to research that is largely internally funded. At the heart of this research is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at Lehman Brothers in London learning... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
available until late 2006, and Herp figured the small turboprop would be a good means of testing his idea in the marketplace. Linear Air began by offering point-to-point service to over 500 cities in the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic, eastern Canada, and the Caribbean.... View Details
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Story HBS Online Offers a Social Entrepreneurship Challenge In May 2020, Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online) announced a partnership with Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), kicking off the second annual Community Challenge.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
clear that the business models that succeed in the Internet sector and e-commerce in emerging markets such as Latin America will resemble those in the United States," says Kennedy. Despite this lag time, the Net is nonetheless causing... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in space is the fundamental transformation of how it’s being organized. For a long time, when most people thought about what we do in space as humans, they thought of it as primarily a government-led activity. They thought of the James Webb telescope, the View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
path, clearly illustrating how the traditional power dynamic has inverted and why it matters for business survival. Bines offers six proven models you can use to cultivate and serve highly informed and empowered customers. Influence Is... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
with new EV models from VW and General Motors. “They are superior to internal combustion engine cars,” she said. And, there are efforts to make EVs more affordable. In early April of 2022, GM CEO Mary Barra... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
by the company. “I see this as part of the transportation model of the future,” she says. “I want Uber to succeed. It’s too important a concept to let it fail. I do think they have a chance to reinvent themselves.” Uber’s wild ride The... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
I joined the company. The company's long history of success had led to a soft underbelly that manifested itself in a lack of discipline. The company was extremely values-centered, but its internal norms of consensus decision making,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
ambitious, alumni-led space program gets off the ground An Alumni Club for the Cosmos But sending a rocket into space and landing it back on Earth wasn’t just an important internal milestone for Blue Origin or a memorable life experience... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley