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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
years. The British merchants also sometimes formed locally registered firms, especially in British colonies where the company legislation was modelled on Britain, which mobilized the pools of capital accumulated by resident Europeans in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
significant set of changes to which the organization was still adjusting. Stroz and Friedberg wondered whether to push for continued, aggressive growth. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313023-PDF-ENG Congruence Model Note Shon R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
to seminars and impromptu lunches in Spangler, spending time getting to know my classmates has been incredibly gratifying. What do you wish all applicants knew about HBS and the greater Harvard community? In addition to helping students... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
last December, believes that "the real opportunity for the marketing industry lies in developing transactional-based models that enable consumer and client to work together more closely." HBS professor John A. Deighton agrees,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
policymakers with information that facilitates evaluation and adjustment of patent-system performance. This article uses multiple economic models to show the likely benefits of early stage administrative review. Nonetheless, because of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided platforms (MSPs), alongside... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
decisions Apply frameworks to measure and monitor sustainable investment opportunities Analyze cutting-edge implementation strategies Gain insights into the climate risk inherent in investment opportunities Discover how to integrate risks into financial View Details
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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights
Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financial Highlights Operating revenues decreased 7 percent to $805 million, while operating expenses declined 6 percent to $779 million. Harvard Business School Online and Harvard... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
in the alarm clock market since the 1950s, when General Electric-Telechron started selling clocks with snooze buttons. "For some reason, we had relegated the alarm clock to be a low-involvement, low-cost item with no emotional... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
causes considerable societal damage, as demonstrated by increasing empirical evidence. Drawing on recent research in moral psychology and behavioral ethics, I examine "moral flexibility," or the common ability to justify one's immoral actions by View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
GEAPP is an alliance of entrepreneurs, governments, technology, policy, and financing partners working together to support developing countries shift to a clean energy model that ensures universal energy access while enabling the global... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
model and mindset to our business and culture. Dave Nelson Head of Sales at WegoWise Discover what causes customers to buy your products and why, and predict when disruption will happen. The course equipped me with new ways to think about... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
that a model with feelings of guilt as a mediator, but not generalized negative affect, fits the data (Study 4). Finally, we examined the relative explanatory power of different appraisals and found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing—when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge, highlight and leverage expertise,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
individuals, and a purely peer-based performance review and stack ranking. As customer demand and market forces draw Valve into hardware in 2013, Valve questions whether their organizational model will need to change as it expands from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
employers. It is not that no attempts were made, in the meantime, to discover an underlying general theory that would inform the tasks of a manager. But the search for a theoretical model capable of... View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
infrastructure, technology, and education that seek to bring tradable jobs ("work for middle-income people") back to US shores. One model that he cites is Germany between 2000 and 2005, during which it sought to become more competitive by... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
and that advertising was critical only in a close election, such as the one in 2004. Interestingly, had the Democrats received more outside advertising in 2004, the election would have ended up in a 269-269 tie. Our findings generate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
Compute Cluster Software Tools 4ms A variety of applications and libraries are supported on the cluster by default . Additional software, including older versions of software, can selectively be "turned on" in a user's environment via... View Details