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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
class. Harvard had been siloed by school, and the Harvard i-lab, which opened in 2011 and evolved into the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem, was one of the first things that very deliberately cut across these boundaries. It’s a resource... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
successfully in global markets while also supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. America is not more competitive if businesses succeed by paying lower wages. Actually, the need to cut wages reflects a lack of... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
job in a family business, and I'm still in that job 35 years later. My name is Ray Liguorie. My very first job--I was 13 years old. A new golf course opened up literally across the street from where I was living. I started working as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a... View Details
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset ownership, low-powered incentives,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
the Dutch IT outsourcing market and regularly wins high customer- satisfaction marks. The growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the pressure on its non-hierarchical teams of engineers, as well as the hiring speed,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
deep historical origins of 'born global' companies; the importance of networks and diaspora in new international market development; the key role of public policy in shaping cross-border entrepreneurial activity; and the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Lin (MBA 1999) is the Hollywood producer behind the hit films Sherlock Holmes, Gangster Squad, and the Lego Movie. Lin’s most recent film, Lego Batman, opened last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles and the principles of an View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
that someone could start to discuss with his or her theologian? Nash: Let me back up and give you an example of the kind of thing that might cause them to say, "My religion is of relevance here." But then whether they should talk directly with their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person in this stage became a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
single person who was hired during my time at Kohl's. How did you first get involved in politics? In the mid-1970s then Governor Pat Lucey asked me to be state chairman of the Democratic Party. When the Senate seat opened up in 1988, many... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
experimenting with teaching courses open to undergraduates. Perhaps the best example of collaboration, though, is the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) that HBS launched in 2011. It has become a magnet for students, faculty, and alumni from... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
country back to prosperity. Within his first 100 days, Mitsotakis announced to investors the world over that Greece is open for business. And it’s happening, both in the buzz at the Grande Bretagne and on the world stage. Arhodidis, for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
substantial information about GMO products, they positively affect approval rates of GMOs by threatening the reputation of the regulatory agency. Our study further shows that firm and product uncertainty increases the impact of the social cues. The Underdog Effect: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
communism as a result of too many layers of bureaucracy and not enough market (true enough). But I then tell students that I made a mistake and that this chart actually represents the managerial organizations of one of the most successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne