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- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
that’s progress. Consider the strengths and resources you and your team can develop by addressing the issue. Identify with your team what each person can do to increase the chances that things will work out.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
prospective operators—and perhaps entrepreneurs in other industries as well—take an educated shot at developing a winning service. He outlined his advice in a July working paper, Mobile Money Services—Design and Development for Financial... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
million grant to scale a successful medical knowledge sharing and collaborative practice platform pioneered by Project Echo in 2003 to expand specialty care access and quality at the centers. Long involved... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
failing," he said. "Begin with the end in mind, and remember that faith is power—you have to believe in something, whether it's fruit flies or God." Beverly Anderson (HBS MBA '97) had ten years of experience in financial services before coming to HBS;... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
SCHIP. The survival rate of new businesses rose by 8 percent.” "They didn't have any experience starting a business, and they couldn't get a loan, because they didn't have the credit," says Olds, who joined the View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and outflows. As a result, stocks held by these funds have lower volatility, and flows out of these funds have smaller spillover effects on other funds holding the same securities. Our results provide evidence of meaningful fire sale... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
Corporate Brands Crossing Borders In the second presentation of the Global Brands session, HBS professor Douglas Holt described a work in progress that he is conducting with View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
and continuity of the firm” This pattern of unequal pay was much more extensive than anticipated among the 717 private equity partnerships studied by HBS finance professor Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
"When Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution, and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization." "Our research shows that values must be managed with care," Cha and Edmondson say. Below, they join forces for an e-mail Q&A with View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
and complements perfectly the physical business we have built so far.” Another example is MyoMaster, a company that specializes in recovery products and knowledge for athletes. Founded by couple Joe Gray and... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
entrepreneurs discussing women's often uneasy relationship with money and power. Their panel session, titled "Women and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary America," held on October 25 as part of the two-day conference, was moderated View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
economic turmoil creates both business destruction and opportunity is one of a series of insights emerging for readers of recent HBS interviews with two prominent Turkish business leaders: Hamdi Akın, chairman of Akfen Holding and Rahmi... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- January 2019
- Supplement
The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
In April 2018, the De Beers Group launched a pilot project called GemFair to create a new supply of ethically and environmentally sourced diamonds from artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) in Sierra Leone. Whether this project would yield a meaningful supply of rough... View Details
Keywords: Diamonds; New Business; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; ESG; Supply; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mining Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Sierra Leone; United Kingdom
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-437, January 2019.
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
Exeter Business School. You Might Also Like: More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization Feedback or ideas to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
vis-a-vis local financial development in districts all along the route, is the first paper to connect microlevel financial development with infrastructure development. The paper, Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network, is coauthored View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
chronicles a host of academics, businessmen and, yes, charlatans who ultimately failed to foresee the biggest economic event of the twentieth century: The Great Depression. In an e-mail interview, Friedman, director of the HBS Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
Are public actions by CEOs the best way to reflect or reinforce them? Presumably, such actions will be applauded primarily by employees; after all, they signed on to work for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
therefore no reliable way to transfer codified knowledge about methods and practices across the organization. Furthermore, while "red team reviews" —progress reviews conducted by NASA's most... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne