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- 13 May 2015
- Blog Post
Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive
The majority of HBS students choose to do an internship in between their first and second years. Some students choose to continue down paths they pursued prior to business school, while others use the summer to try out new function areas... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
a constructive identification result where the causal price parameter can be expressed as a function of the covariance of unobserved shocks. The function is estimated efficiently by the output of ordinary... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
boards themselves, agreed to interview five directors each. We decided to focus on two broad questions: How well did these boards function before the recession? And, what aspects of the board's way of View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Group plc: May 2006 Harvard Business School Case 807-006 Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to help the far-flung organization become more of a streamlined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
the middle decades of the twentieth century. In Paths to Power, we trace seven factors that either provided easy access to an insider track to power or functioned as obstacles to success. These include birthplace, nationality, religion,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
financial functions. Bulletin: We spoke earlier of sophistication; this sounds like research based on very basic principles. Merton: In a way, yes. All of us, whether we live now or a hundred years from now, in New York City or in Bali, are served by various financial... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
account is one that frames the purpose of the for-profit corporation in terms of its function in allowing members of society to meet their wants and needs by coordinating labor and capital in the production of goods and services. August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
recruit because they believe that person can bring clients or a functional team along. However, the conversations necessary to ascertain the recruit’s ability to do that can’t legally happen until they’re a NewCo employee. Post-hire: The... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
continuity across functions and country locations. In the meantime, tensions arise among the newly combined members of her business unit, as some fear being sidelined or losing their autonomy. Molinas wonders whether her team's leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
company’s nascent sales function as Augmedix grows. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-053 Susan Cassidy at Bertram Gilman International In 2016, Susan Cassidy, VP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
needs of potential fund recipients "means talking to everyone from thought leaders to gang leaders," he said. "You have to have the same discipline and rigor, but you also have to take the time to understand the ecology and ecologies they View Details
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
concept of law as incorporated in the legal systems of various countries, highlights differences among the major types of legal systems, develops approaches to managing the legal function and maximizing its utility; introduces the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
challenge for all advertising is to connect the dots all the way to sales. Sales are a function of advertising but also price and the quality of a product, so you can’t blame or credit advertising for everything. And how do you ever... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
managers responsible for stewarding brands. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138786837/ April 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
effective CSR strategy. Third, they have to see to it that their firm's CSR strategy and decision-making are integrated into the company's overall strategy. The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective Author:Josh Lerner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Paul Wang
materials.” The joint MBA/MPA-ID degree, Paul believes, “offers a mix of perspectives. The Harvard Kennedy School provides economic models that can build on what I learned at J-PAL. HBS exposes me to multiple functional areas, to the... View Details