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- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
important? Christine: "We believe business plays a fundamentally noble role in society. From rural to left-behind urban communities, business leaders play a vital role in creating an economy that works for everyone. We want to motivate... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
raising another big round of venture capital might have fueled even faster growth, using other people’s money to get as big as possible as quickly as possible was never her goal. She is not alone. Even as the amount of venture capital sloshing around the View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
others, which is much more difficult to do in developed nations." Starbucks met that challenge by creating a "third place" for the customer between home and office, increasing the size of its stores and adding enticements such as soft... View Details
- October 5, 2023
- Column
A Smarter Way to Design Business Strategies to Serve the Poor
By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Ioanna Popescu, Serguei Netessine and Rowan P. Clarke
Keywords: Poverty Reduction; Technology; Business Model; Strategy; Renewable Energy; Consumer Behavior; Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Africa; Rwanda
Uppari, Bhavani Shanker, Ioanna Popescu, Serguei Netessine, and Rowan P. Clarke. "A Smarter Way to Design Business Strategies to Serve the Poor." INSEAD Knowledge (October 5, 2023).
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Taking in Business, Investing, and Life by Karen Firestone (MBA 1983) (Bibliomotion) Firestone has developed four core tenets of risk-taking that are applicable when anticipating, evaluating, and responding to risks in business,... View Details
- March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany
By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
Comin, Diego A., J. Gunnar Trumbull, and Kerry Yang. "Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany." Harvard Business School Case 711-022, March 2011. (Revised March 2012.)
- 09 Oct 2024
- Podcast
Worker welfare: From theory to tangible good
Good Business Lab cofounder Anant Nyshadham on demonstrating the ROI of better worker conditions and getting from academic exercise to large-scale implementation. View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
funds can replace taxes, they can be beneficial to a citizenry. There seemed to be little concern among respondents that states will use their sovereign funds to foster their political interests. Russell Widener comments that "I would worry more if they began to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
investment budget is only about $20 billion – for all areas of concern in all nations, according to World Bank Information. Further, the entire GDP of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is only about $37 billion - for everything, not... View Details
- Profile
John Oxtoby
fundamentals.” In addition, an MBA would help John better coordinate the efforts of public and private players. “While the Jobs Council is a good example of supporting public/private partnerships, ultimately, a robust economy requires... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development When Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) was shopping for real estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2018, she had some atypical... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
responsible for the deployment of cell phones to two-thirds of Afghans. My research shows that throughout the developing world successful organizations like Roshan must inevitably take on more tasks than their counterpart firms in more... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
information economy are: (1) How do organizations learn? and (2) How does the "corporate brain" really work? The increased attention to what Thomas Stewart terms "intellectual capital"—the sum of everything everybody... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
time for the unpleasantness of the last eighteen months. Still, the changes wrought by technology, and to be wrought by biotechnology, aren't going away. They are here to stay, just like the more fundamental shift from a manufacturing to a service-based View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Sticky?" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. The Structured World and the Self Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy, University Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy and Professor of... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
Are Uber drivers and HourlyNerd consultants independent contractors or employees? Interesting question, but the wrong one. Better to ask: Are we stifling innovation across the digital economy by forcing a simplistic choice, contractor vs.... View Details
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details