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- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
US policymakers and companies competing in a global marketplace is this: the trend toward outsourcing has gone beyond simple assembly-line work. Heading Upstream As low-paying production jobs have disappeared from the United States, so... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
by surprise with the success of Amazon.com. As a result, they found themselves in what I term "strategic jeopardy"; that is, they literally were forced into scrambling to protect their market share. If you're not alert to the technology View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
style, and trends in employer work/life initiatives. More than four hundred people attended the conference, in-cluding HBS students and students from other area universities. View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
noted positive trends towards converting planning to action, such as the BMC’s establishment of a climate cell to coordinate implementation across departments. Funding for Adaption Remains a Significant Challenge As highlighted by the... View Details
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
used as punishment for a crime 1662 Partus Sequitur Ventrem (or, literally, “offspring follows belly”) law ensures multigenerational bondage Jennifer Morgan, 'Partus Sequitur Ventrem’ Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery 1664 First slavery codes begin View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
us in a direction that we were already going, which is further into the home.” The pandemic has had a big impact on CarePort, Hu explains. “In all walks of life, COVID-19 seems to be highlighting and accelerating trends that were already... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
forward. Based on the surprises and the nonsurprises of the last 25 years, what might we expect of our self-creating selves over the next 25? For pointers, it may help to look not just at ourselves, but at how Harvard Business School has changed, and is changing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
and their families will move from the United States to India in the next five years, and he sees a similar trend among Chinese graduates of U.S. universities. “Sure, things are tough in India and China, and entrepreneurs run into all... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity measurement,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
laggards in Internet adoption, on average. However, we find that the rate of patent growth was faster among counties who were not leaders in patenting in the early 1990s but were leaders in Internet adoption by 2000, suggesting that the Internet helped stem the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
suspect we will see these trends continue—additional emphasis on specifying goals and achievement, more creative networked forms of organization and activity, and more attention to working on systemic challenges. This will force us,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
globalization, Rangan declares, requires blueprints from governments to use those resources to help people escape poverty. In the private sector, Rangan sees a positive trend among multinational corporations within industries to set and... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
That is a general secular trend some companies will have to fight against for their success. I used to believe that people have a strong preference for being together, but I increasingly feel like our base core tendency, actually, is to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
to know that across the country, the population of ethnic consumers was growing. “I’ve always subscribed to the theory that trends are like horses,” adds Scharfman. “It’s easier to ride them in the direction they’re already going.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
question was, do we get out of it or increase our stake? In view of the long-term trends that we are seeing, generics is a field that is here to stay. And if we want to be in that field, we need to be able to compete with the best. The... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
activity, a trend that shows little tendency of alleviating. This book looks at the experiences of governments in encouraging entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across many decades and continents. Certainly, the dollars spent each year... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
in large and small groups. They wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on aggregate View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details