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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
and in-kind services. In 2001, the School established a separate track for social enterprise ventures, and in 2009 the contest opened to first-year students with the understanding that it shouldn’t detract from coursework preparations.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
about students' "road trip" stories Plan B: The Brick Bank Issue Focus: The Global Manager They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home HBS celebrated the opening of its newest classroom in early March—in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
leads a team?” By 8:30 Thursday morning, Foalea is ready. Today, she will shepherd the Startup Lockdown team through 12 to 14 intense hours of brainstorming, market research, and prototype building to test the business idea she settled on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers climb out of poverty. Ibrahim... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is that, by providing a process to identify, measure, monitor, and manage uncertainty in strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Career Development Programs Open Boundary Press This is a book for all who are facing career and life transitions. At such junctures, our decisions require the full self, and astute thinking alone will not carry us into the new place that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
business of politics as they would study any company or sector, looking at structural components such as competitors, customers, channels to reach customers, suppliers, and the threat of new entrants into the market using the “five-forces... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded the View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coordination between sales, marketing, and, crucially, manufacturing. As an egomaniacal, 30-year-old marketing maven, I had been conditioned to look down on the “functional groups” run by people without advanced degrees who got their... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
undertaking something much more serious, leading Xerox’s entry into the Chinese market and fearlessly chastising the company’s chairman for publicizing its activities in the press. Always up for a new challenge, she also began serving on... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms develop different skills, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Over time, however, Japan's economy strengthened. Instead of then opening the economy and unleashing competition in the marketplace, the Japanese government continued limiting and regulating competition in many industries. In Japan, there... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the demographics of their workforce. "With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
in European financial markets of any country in the world. Hamilton endured enormous personal abuse during these years, but he also had the satisfaction of seeing most of "my commercial system" put into place. What Hamilton's policies had... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
his home on Kiraly Street on the Pest side of Budapest and he then had to endure a Soviet Communist regime from 1945, when the Russians forced the Germans out of Budapest after a lengthy and very destructive siege, until 1956 when the short-lived Hungarian Revolt led... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
timescales not just of days and weeks but of decades—something that can’t be done with gusting winds and fickle sunshine. “We know how much power we’re going to get out of this for the next 40 years,” Smith says. The potential market for... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
regulatory environment. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-007 Media Markets Down South: Goldman Sachs' Investment in Grupo Clarín Founded in 1945, Grupo Clarín... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
we still have strengths. For example, we used to have amazingly efficient logistics. Because we've been so committed to open competition, we tended to have efficient producers and distributors throughout the economy. A lot of other... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin