Global Understanding - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at BlackRock and other game-changing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (MIT Press) U.S. venture capital firms have grown dramatically over the last two decades, nurturing a host of start-ups -- including Apple Computer, Genentech, Intel, Lotus, Microsoft, and Yahoo! -- that are... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

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Business Program Discount | HBS Online

If you're interested in more than one program or want to complete a Learning Track, take advantage of HBS Online's past participant discount. After your first purchased program, you'll receive 30% off all subsequent programs at checkout. Build a View Details

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

may not be illegal, but can cause enormous amounts of reputational damage.” A good code can also help workers do their jobs better. Most employees want to follow the rules and do the right thing, but may not understand how to comply with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

Months of binge watching, doom scrolling, home schooling, and stress eating have left many people more determined than ever to start a new fitness regimen in January. Even a global pandemic that is closing gyms and keeping people indoors... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

Summing Up Those with firsthand experience suggest, in response to this month's column, that few CEOs with a reason to be there can forego investment in China. However, there is a reason why involvement today is most likely to be as a customer of China's View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Finding My Passion in the Startup Space

is network-based. While some companies may have relevant job postings, your best bet is to visit the companies, talk to the team, understand their pain points, and propose how you can help, based on the experiences you bring. Meanwhile,... View Details

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

world, and includes annual reports for U.S. Steel for the period 1902 to 1978 and from 1981 to 2015, with some gaps. Corporate reports are among the most valuable documents for understanding the history of a company, its financial... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

diaphragm up and down, leading to blurry imaging, but now machines can understand that pattern of breathing and collect the data accordingly to avoid blurring. This results in better image quality and the improved diagnostic accuracy we... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2020
News

Quantum Leap

Illustration by Edmon deHaro Even before we’ve seen the full potential of quantum computing in any material sense, the global market is estimated to reach $5.5 billion in the next five years. To begin to View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

postings, your best bet is to visit the companies, talk to the team, understand their pain points, and propose how you can help, based on the experiences you bring. Meanwhile, it’s a two-way interview so you need to assess in parallel if... View Details

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group believes that View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

industrial districts, business groups, business culture, business education, skills training, accounting and information systems, design, and engineering. Historical knowledge helps us to truly understand business, but the growing... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

01 Oct 1997
News

Terence P. Stewart

of Stewart and Stewart, a Washington-based law firm that represents both domestic and foreign clients on issues of trade and international law, Stewart understands that such disagreements are the predictable outgrowth of a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

excessive government leverage. This report, and several others prepared by other objective bodies, must become part of our collective dialogue about the future of the country. Every business leader and every citizen has a responsibility to View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

not really having proximity to wealth, and not really being able to tap into the thinking of high-net-worth investors and how they live their lives and what their values are,” Ramirez shared. “Having that proximity and that exposure really helped me to View Details

Keywords: All Industries

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

didn’t teach us about current events or help us form political views. I felt like I was constantly playing catch-up, that my understanding of the “real world” had started so much later than my peers. My mom, hurt, told me I was being... View Details

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

eight experts and practitioners, all with ties to HBS, to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change in the context of an increasingly global world that has seen the complexity of corporations increase to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

questions for which the correct answer will be within their confidence interval, they tend to make fairly accurate global estimates (Gigerenzer, Hoffrage, and Kleinbolting 1991). Kahneman and Lovallo (1993) explain this inconsistency by... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

globally so as to develop new insights that can guide the decision-making of organizations and leaders facing digital transformation. For BiGS, that will include additional cohorts of BiGS Fellows—leading scholars who deepen our faculty’s... View Details

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