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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Because the two great disturbances that are shaking the world economy are the cyclical downturns in the United States, and especially in the information and communications technology sectors, and the global supply networks. That double... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
We are focused on building, in some ways, universities that are the exact opposite of my great alma mater. We want to invest in good institutions and help make them great by making them accessible and affordable to as many people who have... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand
summer after she graduates from HBS. This Bay Area firm specializes in labeling and annotating data, creating high-quality datasets to inform use cases from autonomous vehicles to drones. Scale’s technology accelerates AI development by... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Data-Driven and in Demand
summer after she graduates from HBS. This Bay Area firm specializes in labeling and annotating data, creating high-quality datasets to inform use cases from autonomous vehicles to drones. Scale’s technology accelerates AI development by... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
to consumers—and fairer to the businesses they review. “What this does is reduce the noise. We're trying to extract more information from the reviews.” Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, believes a review... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
You're senior associate dean of Harvard Business School Online and the former president of Barnard College. What lessons can educational institutions take from the economic impact of the pandemic? I suspect that this moment is going to be... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
motivated to search for novel information and anticipate alternative perspectives, leading to better decision making, problem solving and innovation. Time and again, analysis confirms this improves the bottom line of companies. “Working... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
Autism Science Foundation, which she founded in 2009, was a result of Tepper Singer's passion to fuel scientific research. To that end, ASF, which is based in New York City, funds pre- and post-doctorate fellowships for young scientists who can use the data to apply... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
For companies to redeem credibility with investors, argue Harvard Business School professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu, "fundamental and even radical reforms must be made to the way America's markets process the flows of View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
many firms have not instituted a process for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the process of selecting a leader when the time comes for change. And as a result, they are as confused about who... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment analysis. Written specifically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
or entirely missing.— Tarun Khanna Regarding his work on entrepreneurship with Professor Palepu, Khanna notes that "it is important to recognize that emerging economies, unlike those of developed nations, typically lack many of the essential supporting View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of the wonders that surround each of us is coupled with Flatt’s candid, empowering reflections on existence and his illness. The CMO’s Social Media Handbook by Peter Friedman (MBA 1983) (LiveWorld) Thirty years of experience informs this... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
between institutional and program design features. These findings advance theory and provide new empirical insights on the outcomes of private political activism and suggest key considerations to inform... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
procedure centric, or institution centric, not patient centric. They are also misaligned with how patient value is actually created. Patient value in health care delivery . . . can only be understood at the level of medical conditions.... View Details