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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
for a government in an emerging or frontier market, as well as for those who wish to acquire a richer conceptual understanding of the nature of capitalism, globalization, and economic development worldwide. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from the View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
advertising and marketing services is best served through the coordination and integration of resources from both inside and outside the company, rather than assuming that these options are mutually exclusive. A review of advertising industry history reveals why View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
operational footprint and increasing fixed costs, making it more challenging to generate a healthy operating surplus each year. Our revenue/cost challenge comes in two flavors. First, activities that enrich... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received
connect with people, trying to get them to trust you. And the more authentic that bond is, the better leader you become. And it’s that simple—you don’t have to come up with any other fancy formula. As soon as I internalized that, it... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
after, but there is still plenty of clean business they can." Their experience is supported by companies including GE, Statoil, and Fluor that have drawn a bright line internally against paying to play in foreign countries and that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
empirical lacuna, we have developed a research program to measure the internal organization of firms—including their decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
Lanka, where he is presently the Chief of Party for USAID’s Sri Lanka Energy Program. Rick has 40 years of experience in formulating and implementing international infrastructure development programs in Latin America, Asia, Middle East,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
School’s Department of Operations, several internal HBS committees, and teams of outside experts. “One of the things we did really well was hire the right people,” says Frank Hayes (PMD 75, 2000), who oversaw the project for Operations.... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives. Data Sources. Primary data include semi-structured interviews with frontline staff and 1732 staff identified operational failures at 20 U.S. hospitals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
Research and Course Development in California's Silicon Valley in order to provide a base of operations for our faculty who are studying and developing cases on the rapidly growing, dynamic enterprises in that region. In Chicago next... View Details
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Executive Education course Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) because, “To lead such significant scale and growth, I needed leadership training and support to reduce operational complexity and drive the organization... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
official International Olympic Committee (IOC) worldwide sponsors are said to pay $90 to $100 million each for the right to use the rings globally in their marketing efforts. These companies typically spend large additional amounts on... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Government, and the International Economy Unit—often works with HBS’s 15 global research centers and offices to ensure that different countries and sectors of the industry are well represented. Alvarez’s research has frequently taken him... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”), Khoja took a job in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
delayed. Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect operates in part through a stronger sorting of land-intensive industries from nodal districts to non-nodal districts located on the GQ network. The GQ upgrades further helped... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
did. While in college, Eaton studied electrical engineering, and a tuition reimbursement program from United Technologies Corporation enabled her to get dual master's degrees in operations management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
groups, university and system-wide initiatives. She is also affiliate faculty of the George Washington School of International Affairs in Leadership Studies and faculty emeritus for the RISE San Diego Urban Leadership Program that trains... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of operational failures and what hospitals can do to reduce their occurrence. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne