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01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes

businesses. Such companies gain advantage because regulators tend to look to the most technologically advanced operations when setting industry standards. On the whole, larger and more prominent firms are... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

taught me great discipline in how to study, how to prepare, how to think,” he says. Upon graduation he joined the paper and packaging company Rand-Whitney. From there, he and... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Faculty Retirements

interface with the securities markets, he is the coauthor or editor of seven books, including Wall Street and Regulation; Managing Financial Institutions; and Islamic Law and... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies

Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

anxiety impacts the quality of a financial planning experience and the integrity of the resulting financial plan, both of which will impact customer satisfaction. The financial services industry has... View Details

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

tenure as head of OnStar, one of his former employees, now a second-year student at HBS, enrolled in a relatively new course called Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, taught by Christensen. The final View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

many of the enterprises we study, in industries such as telecommunications, healthcare, consumer products, agribusiness, semiconductors, education, and automobiles. Course Overview This course prepares... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

between agreement on the [private equity] fund, the commitment on the part of investors into the fund, and the closing—it gets measured literally in months, as opposed to days,” he says. There’s the signing View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

the Student Association, Herrero was impressed by what he saw of HBS as an institution. After graduation, he served as a president and board member of the HBS Club (later the Harvard Club) of Argentina. Following a long View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of View Details

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Historical Research - India

Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80 India, Raj and Empire
Diaries, letters, maps, sketches and official View Details

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

01 Sep 2013
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The First Scrum

and style and meeting deadlines, six days a week, three cases a day. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, your Written Analysis of Cases paper had to go down the chute [at Baker Library]. If... View Details

Keywords: rugby; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Archival Collections, Baker Library, Harvard Business School Georges F. Doriot Papers, 1921 - 1984 on permanent loan from the French Cultural Center in Boston The papers of Georges F. Doriot includes Doriot's notes, course materials,... View Details

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

between the average interest rate on commercial and industrial loans and the federal funds rate, moved in opposite directions with merger activity. This spread, the researcher... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

Christensen asks. In "Patterns in the Evolution of Product Competition," his 1996 study of four industries - hydraulic excavators, disk drives, diabetes care, and executive education - Christensen found that... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog

a turnaround, through generative AI and industry disruption, when navigating controversial issues, and during the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. The module encourages... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn

reason that these people are more constrained by bumpy labor markets than others. The paper has implications for founders and funders alike. Entrepreneurs, Roche says, need to be true to themselves if... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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