Dependence - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

case studies, for example, are five times more costly to produce than domestic ones. Conducting the intensive, field-based experiments that Ashraf’s research requires depends on even greater resources than those needed to write a case.... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

29 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy

Project Finance, Marketing, HR, and Supply Chain departments will continue to be offered annually during the summer, with recruitment starting in December. Depending on our business needs, full time opportunities may be available in these... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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International Students | MBA

apply for depends upon whether or not you have a US cosigner. When you take out a student loan, you assume a legal obligation to repay the principal amount you borrow, plus interest, under a defined repayment schedule. The following... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: The Money of Invention

Invention is geared toward three key audiences. Entrepreneurs can use the book as a guide through the intricacies of seeking a capital investor and to understand that entrepreneurial success depends on many factors — money is just the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Finance; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We View Details

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

limited and the candidate has little control. To succeed in 2016, a candidate has to play a strong game on all three fronts. Thus far, Trump has spent next to nothing on television advertising. His national organization is leaner or understaffed, View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

intellectual capital. And intellectual property laws need to be rewritten to allow companies a longer time to reap the benefits of their inventions. Does Europe have a future as a location for clinical trials? Herzlinger queried. Panelists said that for the most part... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

01 Jun 2015
News

Ink

freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting those with debilitating chronic illnesses and the dependent elderly.” —Professor Lynda Applegate, on Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande Excerpt... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

27 Mar 2014
News

From Marx to Marketing

my long experience dealing with Soviet organizations, I knew that the way decisions were implemented and what actually happened depended more on the lowest echelon of the hierarchy than the top." In addition, Vlachoutsicos, in close... View Details

21 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand

"because you can use it to tell your story the way you want. Consider making this section aspirational, to let people see what you're excited about." What about the other channels, like Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, and more? Grinshpun recommends using these... View Details

16 Nov 2016
Blog Post

My HBS Journey

gave the class day speech at graduation in front of thousands of people. Most surprisingly, I learnt how to be truly happy, after realizing that many times happiness is a choice that only depends on you—and not on how perfectly everything... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

To Market, to Market

which depends on the merging of breakthrough scientific ideas and great business leadership," said Dean Nitin Nohria. By focusing on technologies that have great potential to impact human lives and by enabling business leaders to take... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

wrong answer unless one takes into account the different ways in which firms compete (that is, their business strategy). Because macro-level shocks reverberate differently at the firm level depending on whether a firm has a cost structure... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

of fintech is about providing services to banks. Third, many innovators depend on banks as their partners – either to provide credit to them or to facilitate their financial transactions, both in lending and in payments. In this first... View Details

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

The stereotype is that creativity depends almost exclusively on a person's level of 'genius' — their raw, inborn talent for doing what they're doing. "Of course, talent is an important aspect of creativity," Amabile said.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

firms aim to replicate success, and how they find, foster, and sell potential blockbuster products. Also illustrates how similar efforts by competitors increase each firm's dependence on a handful of hits. Contains detailed unique... View Details