The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

20 percent compared with the pre-transition period. Why? CEO turnover tends to cause a great deal of uncertainty about whether a new leader will make big changes, like reshuffling or reducing View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

is that we're expanding quickly, and we're definitely in a recruiting mode." Recalling her own leap from HBS to Silicon Valley, Dubinsky adds, "This event was a great way to help students see more options on View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

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Dynamics of Network Formation

By: Ranjay Gulati

An ongoing research project with my doctoral students extends my previous line of inquiry by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of small-world networks. Diverging from recent research that has analyzed static small worlds, we have adopted a dynamic view of the... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)

decisions the executives made, gave me more context for my job, and gave direction to my questions. The knowledge HBS has provided put me in great position to learn a lot from... View Details

12 May 2014
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China’s Strategic Challenge

2012
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The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power... View Details

Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Ethnicity Characteristics; Economics; Great Britain; United States

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October 14, 2019
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery

By: Samantha F. Sanders, Mats Terwiesch, William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern

The development of intelligent machines holds great promise for making health care delivery more accurate, efficient, and accessible, but challenges remain for incorporating AI into clinical and administrative settings. View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning

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18 Apr 2017
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Its Survival In Doubt, Sears Struggles To Transform Once Again

06 Jun 2005
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Don’t Listen to “Yes”

decisions. But conflict does not mean browbeating. In his new book, Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (Wharton School Publishing), Roberto describes the toll... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann

Every now and again we have some really big news to share with prospective students. This week’s announcement about the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences joint degree was no exception. In a previous post we outlined some of View Details

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The Power of DEI: Harnessing Talent and Opportunity for Enduring Success - Course Catalog

and the denial of civil rights to millions of individuals. By looking succinctly at specific aspects of this struggle, with a focus on the United States, we will develop a much fuller sense of View Details

07 Oct 2010
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Innovation & Economic Comeback

30 Mar 2016
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Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help create positive change throughout the world. “And View Details

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

27 Jun 2019
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Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

I thought I was a great fit.” A half-hour later, Noa got a response; a week later, the two met in New York. “It just rolled from there,” says Noa. Over the next two-and-a-half... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

December 1998
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Origins of National Income Accounting

By: David A. Moss and Joseph P Gownder

Set in the Great Depression, this case explores the origins of national income accounting in the United States. Highlights Senator La Follette's 1932 proposal for the federal government to begin collecting national income statistics. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; United States

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11 Jan 2012
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Google's new social search: How far can you trust it?

11 Aug 2014
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Can Lending Technology Revive America’s Small Businesses?

18 Jul 2018
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Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

Merrill Lynch's Middle East interests through its offices in Dubai. It was a two-year assignment, one that Amira embraced with enthusiasm. "It would be a great experience for us and the kids," says... View Details

August 1995
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Credit General, SA

By: Andre F. Perold

The head of a bank's asset and liability committee has to approve an unexpectedly large overnight currency exposure or require at great cost that the exposure be reduced. View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Currency; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry

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