Developing World - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2024
News

Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

03 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

After more than two decades in consulting, Jurgen Weiss joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2020 as a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit. He currently teaches the first year BGIE core course and is View Details

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

even investors. At a national level, it can damage international relations. Here’s a sample of some indicators of differences between pride and arrogance: Pride We work for the customer We worry about what we can learn from others We’re open to the outside View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Fast Answer

What are the best finance interview prep resources?

Venture Fizz - Hiring and Breaking in the Venture Capitalist World Coding VC - Behind the Scenes at a VC Fund, Part 1: Deals, Deals, Deals The Glocap Guide to Getting a Job in Private Equity Compensation Compensation data by position and... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

of the largest camshaft manufacturers in the world, serving marquee customers like GM, Ford, Daimler, Porsche, Toyota, and others. “In the two years that I have been at PCL—first as a business development executive and now as executive... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107047 Chongqing Tiandi Harvard Business School Case 207-019 In late 2000, Vincent Lo, a prominent Hong Kong developer was invited by the Deputy Mayor of Chongqing,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

developing a course on cross-cultural management for the second-year MBA program. While this project has persuaded me that leading companies around the world are gravitating toward a set of what might be... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Oct 2019
News

Bridging Business and Engineering

team leader. Perelson was especially pleased to learn about HBS’s new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, which would enable him to bridge the worlds of business and engineering by developing insights... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

excellence in economics research in 2022. 2021 Rebecca M. Henderson : Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) for... View Details

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the joint goal of supplying steel for... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

indicators on business decisions Discover the short- and long-term impact of interest rates, inflation, trade, and investment Learn distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you think about the world and organize information Who... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

the evolution of the process as brilliantly envisioned and developed by Edwin Land and his dedicated project team. It required successful outcomes in a number of arenas, all of which would need to coalesce into an interrelated,... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

started 14 years ago with an email from Franklin Leonard, a development executive in Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, asking a select group of friends to let him know if they’d read any good scripts in the past year. He aggregated... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the HBS MBA program have seen a similar trajectory, although there have been periods of plateaus, including the time we are in right now. As the world is rapidly changing, HBS is asking challenging questions about how the MBA can remain... View Details

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the... View Details