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- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Kanter says. Gibson, who was not well-known in Miami when she began her startup quest, came across financial and real estate professionals who had never known someone like her. They had trouble seeing a Black woman as someone who could View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI applications toward specific,... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
she set store standards, instituted training programs, and rejuvenated performance. Due to her success in operations over the next two years, this manager received two more challenging assignments. First, she became director of sales for... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, firms in related industries, and associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate") in your 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
investment as it once was—to palm oil. Unilever, the largest private holder and buyer of palm oil (an ingredient used in its famous “Sunlight Soap” and other products), diversified its holdings from the crop’s native West Africa to the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
unique perspective on a major institution that we don’t often examine, so it is a new look at race in America. I plan to read outside under trees, but worrying about what climate change will mean for lovely landscapes. The United States... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of same sex senior professionals are less likely to exit. At the peer level, however, these effects are reversed, and professionals are more likely to leave as the proportions of same-sex and race peers within the workgroup increase. The effects View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
sponsored by government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) or the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Previously, it was possible to figure out what patents came directly out of government research labs,” Yao says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
changed, and with it the security that used to come almost automatically with an MBA degree. [ ] High-paying jobs are no longer guaranteed to graduates, and the opportunity costs of two years of training—especially for those who still View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
bank, a deposit-taking institution that most often kept the loan on its books, retaining the credit risk. But over time the banks would sell more and more loans to the secondary market, particularly since the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
for the whole industry. We are unlikely to see progress in cases where collaboration is unprofitable in both the short and the long term. Second, large institutional investors must have significant ownership of a sizeable part of the key... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
the origin firm than they do in other firms and compared to other analysts covering the origin firm. The advantage no longer holds after the executive's departure, and most of the analysts' advantage does not carry over to the destination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Foundation has made frequent use of investments in the form of “program-related investments” to support its social and environmental goals. How can an entrepreneur trying to do good evaluate the best form of support to pursue? Roth recommends those View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
"If there is one thing that I hope this event will do, it is change the relationship that each of you has with this remarkable institution. We need you to be a part of this institution with all your heart." Survey On Work-life... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
"five contexts framework"—issues to consider, in essence—to understand institutional variations between countries. We excerpt a summary of the five contexts. As we helped companies think through their globalization strategies,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
that future work should develop more precise and context-specific theories to help guide research and practice in disparate task and industry domains. Working paper not available. Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
competitive firms. August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows By: Soltes, Eugene F., David H. Solomon, and Denis Sosyura Abstract—We show that media coverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne