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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
span more languages, geographies, and cultures than ever, requiring workers to communicate effectively to deliver results. I wanted to understand how a radical language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
describes how investors can—and do—pay closer attention to retailers' inventory levels. “When it comes to implementing science in retailing, the 'missionary' is more important than the scientist.” Raman, who specializes in operations... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
work on real-world projects with Black and Latinx-led businesses in Greater Boston – a proximate learning experience that seemed like exactly the opportunity I was seeking. The course itself consisted of a mix View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
presentation focused on current construction projects and plans for the future of the campus. By the end of the afternoon, we volunteers — nearly one hundred altogether, View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
over time. For half a century, tax analysts have noted that taxes averaged over a span of years (or even a lifetime), or taxes that depend on income histories and age, would be substantially more efficient... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC
land developments, spanning more than 60 projects, 38,000 residential units, 10,000 acres of land, and 50 million square feet of development. Grounded in a 100-year heritage... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
decades academic historians devoted almost no attention to businesses as such, as they focused on the role of culture, race, gender, and religion in historical developments. Mainstream historians, Beckert... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Gordon Celebrates a Century
Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) On July 21, Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) celebrated his 100th birthday with a group of about thirty family members and friends at Fishers Island, New York. In honor of the day and as... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included partnerships with governments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
was spurred by high profits. Typical cable systems outside the top 100 markets earned rates of return on net investment (before taxes and interest expense) over 40 percent. 9 Wired Cities: 1970-1975 (10) With industry growth surging... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
high-fiber grain. Sipping coffee to clear his throat, he adjusted the reading glasses he'd begun using last week and couldn't quite get used to, without shifting attention from the editorial he'd just come across in the business section... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
In late January 2021, over seventy HBS MBA students gathered in a virtual classroom for four exciting days of a short intensive program (“SIP”) on Climate Finance, taught by professors George Serafeim and Vikram Gandhi. Through a series... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Neilson and me shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured by the number of direct reports, has doubled. It stands at almost 10 today. This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
by the time the bond matures, suggesting greater economic vulnerability of this region. “This was our first indication that we were on to something, that the capital markets had not paid attention to this... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
art. By 2005, the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) spanned more than 34 million pages of Indian literature, including herbal formulations from the Unani, Yoga, Ayurveda, and Siddha medical... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals
Jeff had launched a philanthropic fund through The Boston Foundation! With the scaffolding in place, it was then time to build a team. In the span of one weekend Sophie gathered a team View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
Pundits and investors spoke giddily of the end of national borders, of markets that spanned the globe and replaced the hefty weight View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks; a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was founded in 2000 and in early 2004 was looking for a second round View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
cooptation, resources should be made available to third parties for building the capacities of participants; The Issue Framing and Agenda Setting stage should be preceded by a comprehensive stakeholder analysis, and prioritization based... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details