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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
“These solutions are simply too expensive for local utilities and municipal governments to do alone,” says Littlefield, who is the former CFO of Poseidon Water, a group focused on development, management, and investment in water projects... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
local business, civic, community, and nonprofit leaders—in different cities across the country. The group is also in contact with representatives from 30 additional communities that are in the earlier stages of thinking about... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
announcements with campus career offices Advertising job openings in local and ethnic newspapers Advertising job openings in radio and/or TV ads From the Career Blog Make Social Media Work for You Abroad Looking to move to a new country?... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Article Some of the more interesting writing that is relevant to management these days is found in out-of-the-way places in my local bookstore. In addition to the management and economics sections, you should check out neuroscience,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
“Women are well represented in the banking and government sectors in Egypt,” says Enan. But there are still gaps, which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with View Details
- 28 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)
co-president alongside my partner in crime, Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010). This experience was made significantly more meaningful through the friendships we made across the HBSLAA/LASO boards and a strong partnership with HBS Admissions, HBSAAA, and View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
drivers and alleged evasion of local taxes. The Uber case brings up thorny questions around when pushing legal or policy boundaries becomes a public hazard rather than public benefit. Permission Or Forgiveness "We address this in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
second chance. We are responsible for and witnesses to permanent and irreversible damage to our climate, and it is our collective responsibility to respond. As business leaders, we must collaborate with governments at the global, national, state, and View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
tightly: performance evaluation and risk management. Everything else is managed loosely, and local leaders get an enormous amount of discretion in figuring out how to get things done. Change leaders need to be prepared to give the same... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
regional board summits, and other networking events. Contact your local club to learn more. 1 Life & Leadership After HBS longitudinal alumni study. Most recent data collection 2021-2022. Interested in learning more about On Board? Sign... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
International Health Economics
By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details
Egan, Mark, and Tomas J. Philipson. "International Health Economics." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19280, August 2013.
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
reckless gambling of assets. Its hubris was to attempt to commoditize electric power, water, and broadband, despite what Salter called critical points of difference from natural gas. (Electric power and water are politically sensitive at the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
other countries outside China such as Germany and Sweden before local contagion even started, allowing precious time to acquire personal protective equipment before it became scarce. Second, since the company was able to foresee large... View Details
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
Group, Google, REI, and UPS. All of this sounds like an answer to a "trickle down" philosophy of economics fueled by government favoritism for the most affluent. My introduction to the concept occurred long before I read the book. On a visit to a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Apply fundamental economic principles to real-world... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
International is increasingly cognizant of the need to adapt to local contexts—as evinced not only by the India entry strategy but by changes in merchandising policies, clearer definition of decision rights, and even the astonishing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
faculty, staff and alumni take to accelerate climate solutions. “As a complement to large conferences like Climate Week,” he said, “Harvard should use its convening power on the micro scale. I’d love to see local dinners and get-togethers... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Series, No. 16454, October 2010) with Christopher Malloy and Lukasz Pomorski. Mihir A. Desai : Runner up for the 2009 Review of Financial Studies-Michael Brennan Best Paper Prize for his paper with C. Fritz Foley and Kristen Forbes, "Financial Constraints and Growth:... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
created by the swift expansion of local and wide area corporate computer networks (LANS and WANs) and the privatized Internet brought a second Japanese challenge in the early 1990s. Critical here was the development of the workstation... View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
government relations at the national, provincial, and local levels is even more important. You have to know what you are getting into. You have to know whom you are dealing with, what their expectations are, what their rules are. And you... View Details