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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

search. They are good resources for the industry emerging trends and key leaders, such as: World Manufacturing... View Details

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

Neither Jeff Surette (MBA 2010) nor Mike Peters (MBA 2017) expected to be drafted onto a team with Tom Brady after business school. However, the perspectives, experience, and skills they each brought to the table were exactly what Tom... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

US presidential elections as far back as 1952 to see if demographic trends can predict political ones. In each election, we calculated how each group of citizens of a certain age, race, or income voted. We then looked at which groups grew... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

for a Mexican health care startup called Moons, leading market entry, in-house production, and operations for Colombia, and interned at SAGANA, an impact investing fund, where she had the View Details

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

be applied to businesses outside the culinary world? Keinan: I don't think it's a coincidence we see these cases coming out at the same time. They represent a very important trend in consumption, where—especially in the luxury... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

08 Jun 2023
News

Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

Clubs News Clubs News New York Alumni Honor Outstanding Leaders at Annual Dinner The HBS Club of New York held its 54th Annual Leadership Dinner on April 24, honoring three alumni who embody the HBS mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world," and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2014
Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano

Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts

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20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

contemplating expanding or migrating their model from B2C to B2B in order to achieve scale and profitability faster. The case is an opportunity to discuss the theoretical underpinning of creating impact in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

The organizational theory of the multinational firms holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firm; Multinationals; Labor Market Discrimination

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

behavior and explore how they make a negotiator particularly vulnerable to ethical fading, resulting in subsequent unethical behavior. We discuss several opportunities for future research in the negotiation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2022

MBA Tour: Spotlight on Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous MBAs

HBS Admissions representatives will be at this virtual event to meet prospective MBA candidates. This event is an opportunity to connect with admissions reps, alumni, and students from top business schools. View Details

15 Nov 2016

HBS 2+2 and Yale SOM Information Session at MIT

Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA at HBS and the Silver Scholars Program at the Yale School of Management. The event will include a presentation and an View Details

31 Oct 2023

Harvard Business School Lunch and Learn at Dillard University

Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Stop by the HBS Admissions table to learn more... View Details

19 Apr 2023

The MBA Tour Spotlight: Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous MBA’s

Indigenous MBA candidates and will highlight program offerings, scholarships, and career opportunities that are actively promoting DEI initiatives to support this group. This... View Details

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

unique opportunity to change the face of entrepreneurship and create the minority renaissance for venture capital,” said Pierre-Jacques. What that looks like for Harlem Capital is clearly stated in their... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

more effective negotiator, and motivating great work from others. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 10 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2010. Now turn your attention to 2011 View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rigorously track the interdependency between social and business results, they miss important opportunities for innovation, growth, and sustainable social impact at scale. An... View Details

20 Oct 2022
News

Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

stage all those who wished to talk directly to the Ambassador. “More than 20 guests had the opportunity to chat in private and further dwell on the issues raised during her speech,” he says. “Such direct... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

February 2015 (Revised June 2016)
Case

AltSchool: School Reimagined

By: John J-H Kim, Kyla Wilkes and Christine S. An

Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's frustration with the education options available for his young daughter. During his search, Ventilla comes to the... View Details