Filter Results:
(2,686)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,686)
- People (5)
- News (845)
- Research (1,432)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (543)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,686)
- People (5)
- News (845)
- Research (1,432)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (543)
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often lauded for bringing economic growth and know-how to developing countries. The conventional wisdom is not necessarily wrong, but the real story is much more nuanced than is commonly believed, says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Assets: Matchup
learned, the more surprises there were in terms of the complexities.” That early interest led to a productive, ongoing research agenda focused on China’s role in the world and economic relations between... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Senior Lecturer John Macomber writes about his recent investigative visits to nascent privately-funded municipalities in Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, SAUDI ARABIA—Two days before Thanksgiving, I'm standing at the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
How should men and women strike a balance between work and personal life in order to feel as happy and fulfilled as possible? In a packed auditorium, three speakers at the Möbius Leadership forum session titled "Walking the Tight... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Waste as Input We live in a View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
city government are seeking a development solution in the form of unique land use regulations and a resulting development strategy that weighs the financial, economic, aesthetic, and environmental impacts of the development. Companies and governments around the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks off the View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade through the Marshall Plan and Japan's View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
Social Entrepreneur of the Year from the World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation. SecondBite expects to feed 17,000,000 meals this year. For Carson, the ability to adapt to clients’ needs, especially on an... View Details
- Web
Fellowships | Baker Library
is to enable established scholars from around the world with the primary interest in the business and economic history of the United States to spend time in residence at Harvard Business School, conducting... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
traditional and ubiquitous command and control hierarchies of modern society inhibit, frustrate, and deny our natural instincts.” He suggests stakeholder forums as one means of supporting the thinking of rebel talent. Zufi, at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Black History Month | Baker Library
black men and women who are 'making it' in the world of business and who are making it happen in black communities across this country" Previous Next The "Making It" series highlights specific instances of Black entrepreneurs overcoming... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long history of investing in research that supports innovation in... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
Orchestra in January, Cerny’s experience included stints with the opera companies of Calgary, Dallas, and San Francisco. In Dallas, Cerny helped create the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors. He also commissioned three View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
trait. Although he didn’t arrive in the United States until age 10, Ted Levitt didn’t look back, rarely discussing what must have been a difficult childhood for a Jewish boy during Hitler’s ascendancy. After serving in World War II, where... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
the intersecting worlds of social entrepreneurship. Using examples from nonprofits, foundations, private industry, and government, Keohane presents a history of social entrepreneurship, explores its impacts, and chronicles both the... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
include bodies as varied in scope as the Financial Accounting Standards Board on one end to the DSL Forum on the other. On the tech side, SSOs work both with technology sponsors and users to develop a set of standards for products to... View Details
- Profile
John Clayton
John Clayton speaks French, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish, and his resume looks less like a CV than an atlas: He has studied in Bologna, Italy, and Shanghai, China, and worked on the sustainable-development portfolio of the World Bank on... View Details
The Visible Hand of History
person nearly every day, from different research backgrounds spanning business, architecture, history, economics and even genetics. HBS, south of the River Charles and the wider Harvard community north of the river, is a veritable... View Details