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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
than what a family might pay in rent. “It’s a sustainable model that empowers homeowners to help themselves and others,” says Song, who also works as a volunteer on Habitat projects. “It’s possible to frame a house in one day, so you can... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities, others that authenticate the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
sometimes build my own. Just about anything can be boiled down to a two-by-two.” Weekend retreat: The Chesapeake Bay. “My wife and I bought a river house and then a boat, so we’re having fun—learning river life, if you will. Our three... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
city’s South Side through 1871, BLUE1647 (a technology skills center), and a $30 million startup fund for neighborhood businesses, among other efforts. “I have one goal,” he said. “If a child walking out of his house looks at the city... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
find that changes in the local business landscape is a leading indicator of housing price changes and that the entry of Starbucks (and coffee shops more generally) into a neighborhood predicts gentrification. Each additional Starbucks... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
call the “one upper" that you want to avoid. That's someone who always tries to top your story, even if it's nothing to brag about. But they just want to have the upper hand. If you say something like, "I haven't left I haven't left the View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
so distorted the housing market that they made a financial breakdown inevitable, the minority response argues. As a result, Washington, not Wall Street, is the villain in the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble. The minority response... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
housing at Radcliffe College. LAMBERT: I took the train from DC to Boston and a cab to the dorm at Radcliffe. The lady who met me at the door made me feel like I didn’t belong there. She told me my room wasn’t ready, so I walked to a park... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
think about the transaction influences their behavior. "Exchange norms" are defined by reciprocity—I get this, you get that. It's the kind of interaction we have with business associates or when we are buying a house or a car.... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
100,000 Japanese Americans to relocate from their homes on the Pacific coast to internment camps in other parts of the country. Not knowing how long the internment would last, many of the internees hurriedly sold their houses and assets... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
electronics and high-end data storage systems, for example, it makes sense for each business unit to have its own marketing chief, housed in that unit. But if the firm decides to focus solely on the high-end corporate customers, the CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
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Ruzwana Bashir
the world from one of materialism, where we buy products (such as houses or cars or clothes), to one of experiences, where we focus on having special moments with the people we care about. Despite all the consumerism of the last 50 years,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
owned golf chain, Golf Galaxy. The project was an ideal fit as Krantz is very interested in the future of retail and how traditional brick-and-mortar retailers can successfully incorporate consumer tech. Leveraging insights from the new Dick’s Sporting Goods View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Washington D. C., August 16, 1957 . (New York: United State Steel Corporation, 1957). 51 John F. Kennedy, News Conference, April 11, 1962, Official White House Transcript. See:... View Details
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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
institutions have helped to harness the benefits that the foreign investor--here, the giant De Beers company--has brought. Also, examines how Botswana was able to avoid the natural resource curse that has haunted so many other resource-abundant countries. View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
relevant’ to our list of qualities, so that if you aren’t reading HBR, you are missing out.” Tell us about the recent changes at HBR and what inspired them. The house wasn’t on fire, that’s for sure — our numbers were excellent, and our... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
problem, not the root cause,” he says. To learn more about the private sector, Goodwin left the air force to work for a multinational company and to prepare for business school. But his path changed course in early 2001 when President George W. Bush’s new... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
slogan—Make America Great Again—Trump emphasized the power of tax cuts to drive economic growth. TCJA divided the U.S. Congress. The Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) celebrated it as "something I have been working on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman