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- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
In the summer of 2020, Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) was looking for an internship where he would have the opportunity to work closely with a startup founder. He considered Boston based startups originally and then broadened his scope to look... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based wasn’t ideal for creating a... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
its market penetration—like that of rivals Microsoft (with the Xbox) and Nintendo (with the GameCube)—has been limited by a narrow customer base of mostly males in their late teens and twenties. Sony's goal... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
do is take technology and combine it with human nature to create meaningful products.” After she graduated, Matthews did a stint at a startup, but soon left that position to help launch Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
apartment, a car, a boat—now has an easy way to advertise and share it. And anyone with the time and skills—driving, running errands—can find customers who need these services. But new research shows how online marketplaces can work in... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012) Abstract Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
compensation and $130,000 USD. Award amounts are determined based on total funds available, a thorough review of the application, and analysis of the applicant’s projected monthly income. The maximum... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
you? A: The fact that school ties seemed to be important in the data did not surprise us, but the magnitude of our results did. Q: Why does information transfer more easily in a social network based on schools? What makes school ties... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
what to call it until the academics told us it was globalization. It’s like being a supply-chain manager. We were just doing what we thought our customers needed, and people said to me, “This is supply-chain management.” And I said, “Oh,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t solve the challenges of global health without deeply... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
effects. His analysis suggests that major events occurring in response to periods of growth foster openness, tolerance, mobility, fairness, and democracy to support his thesis. The reverse is also true. He maintains that increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
city, a country—with a clear connection to making life better for the people who live there,” Condo says. “I’ve always thought that one should try to do work that benefits society.” Michael Porter was ultimately the advisor for Condo’s DBA thesis, which included an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to identify all of the direct and indirect linkages between the components in a system. We use this approach to define three fundamental architectural patterns, which we label... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
marketing strategy by the marketing department, one focused on the role of customer relations in product development, is considered. The creation of a set of basic principles and operating procedures for GE's marketing unit is discussed.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
new organizations? We describe the kinds of answers that an institutional perspective provides to these questions; illustrate some of our arguments by drawing on a recent field of entrepreneurial endeavor; hedge funds; and discuss the implications of our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse" institutions are significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace