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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
high-profile Mars landing mission. The case illustrates JPL's risk culture for high-visibility and expensive missions in the post-Challenger era with tightly constrained budgets. It introduces risk analytics, such as heat maps, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
analysis, the fish will lose every single time," he said. "And you'll have extinction after extinction after extinction." But the farmers benefit from other political decisions. Because of government subsidies, the price... View Details
- Web
Working with Professors at HBS - MBA
only ones with whom to connect. For example, my finance professor, Carl Kester , was extremely helpful when I was asked to complete a modeling assignment at work that I had no idea how to begin. I was touched that Professor Kester was on a trip to Asia when I emailed... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George Hessler (MBA 1985) (Northeastern... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
Harvard Business School from 1915 to 1990, and honors the first 75 years of groundbreaking contributions of Black alumni and faculty. At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation This exhibit brings... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Horizon Wind Energy. “It was a very small business, but we got lucky with land positions and were able to build it to pretty good scale,” notes Skelly, who served as the company’s chief development officer. “When it got too big for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
in New Orleans, where he traveled with other HBS students earlier this year to assist with the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. Kennealey is also interested in working in politics and maybe holding elective office. Whatever he is... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
be when the politics are working.” Begun in 2009, CCDev has allowed companies like Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to leverage NASA’s funding and expertise in their own rocket and spacecraft development. The multi-phase initiative has... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
characterized by a high degree of mobility of capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and they can succeed in economic, social, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
acknowledgment of the government’s intentions surprised Abrami. “Before China’s accession such a comment may very well have jettisoned domestic political support for the WTO,” she commented afterward. “Everyone knew that domestic View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
of government in the urbanization process. There's always the hope that government can wave a magic wand and fix these problems, but generally government can't. It is either paralyzed by politics or a lack of money. So the private sector... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and they can succeed in economic, social, and political terms. I suspect that... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
had lower creativity ratings than men, but other ratings were not influenced by the gender of the judge or the difference in gender of the target-judge dyad. The implications of these findings are discussed. Colonial Land Tenure,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Chinese citizens living in cities than in the countryside. China's rapid urbanization, and the accompanying conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, raised a number of economic, social, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
cultivators, especially on public lands. This reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Political constraints prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS - MBA
engineering programs. I ultimately went to Michigan State University. I landed an internship with Procter and Gamble and loved everything about my job. I worked in a hair care plant and came out of work smelling better than I came. I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
part of your job? The most satisfying things have been where the United States or our embassy has really helped Morocco: battling locusts, opening a girls’ school in a small rural town, the free trade agreement, the microfinance program. For me personally, there’s also... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
the scene for what happened next, because we took an hour long flight over vast remote green plains with barely any village in sight and landed several miles from a fairly large clump of ultramodern buildings, which looked like a Florida... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
among those who think they have nothing to lose. Western governments have also come to appreciate that the world's financial system, which came close to meltdown on several occasions in the 1990s, depends on political stability to sustain... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge