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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
you've done on firms' location decisions. Could businesses be doing a better job of that? MP: American businesses should be locating certain activities abroad because that makes them more competitive by enabling them to better penetrate international markets. In some... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
money trying to save one of their kids on meth. I knew it was a bad epidemic, but I couldn’t believe it was going to be that bad in my little hometown, this agrarian utopia. Seeing it begin to dissolve in an ugly way was very troubling.”... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
literature, we still operate with a sort of history of the commanding heights of German capitalism. For instance, we all know about the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, or Commerzbank. Yet the Big Four banks have a market share (measured on total assets) around 14 percent. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
smart, he was interested in health care, and he had a history of taking on challenges,” recalls Frist. “So I went to him and said, ‘John, the company is under siege, and I’ve got to rebuild it. Are you willing to come on the board?’ And fortunately for us, he agreed.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
save BlackBuck—but at the risk of losing control. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/819031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-020 RunKeeper The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Maybe it all begins at a dinner table in Beaverton, Oregon. It’s the late 1980s, at the height of the spotted owl controversy—a pitched battle between loggers and conservationists over whether preserving a bird’s habitat is more critical than View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
restaurants in China. It was all the things that investors were pressing for—moves that saved the company $200 million by the end of 2016, with a target of $500 million by the end of 2018. “It was housekeeping,” says Kempczinski of the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on to note that Dost has View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
epidemiology, cost, and market share information given in the case to estimate potential cost savings one year after the introduction of biosimilars. The case also explores qualitative questions around the appropriate communication with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
raised more than $300,000 in donations to support organizations fighting racism. JUNE 30 Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) recently led an effort to save summer internships for Black and Hispanic youth. Bobo is CEO of Project Destined, a nonprofit... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Novartis as a boy, being in an iron lung for a year. He learned he wanted to be a great doctor and then he wanted to use those doctors' gifts to help other people with pharmaceuticals that could save lives. And he did just that. But he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
savings and loans. I was chosen because I had the required skill set: management experience, real-estate knowledge, and a background in both asset management and property development. What I lacked, however, was experience in navigating... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2004) recently led an effort to save summer internships for Black and Hispanic youth. Bobo is CEO of Project Destined, a nonprofit with a platform that teaches inner-city kids about real estate investment. COVID-19 forced him to move all... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
government and saved my earnings. Afterward I invested the money to develop a life-saving aviation technology but couldn’t attract resources to commercialize it. I was offered the chance to fly it on the Rutan Voyager (the first aircraft... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
principal can set its payment delay to deter bad-type agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding bad agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
is a no-brainer in terms of quality of life and money saved over the time your children are in school. I know it’s not easy to do, but spend time researching and if necessary downgrade jobs or move to a different school—you will not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Palantir Press) Tōru: Wayfarer Returns is an alternate history of the tumultuous period from the opening of Japan in 1853 to the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The hero of this fictional account is Tōru, a shipwrecked young fisherman rescued by traders and taken to... View Details
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certain pivotal choices made by over 20 founders who set out to change the world in small and big ways. We meet a Lebanese young woman who spent 10 years making the perfect swimming goggle, and we look at the journeys of people who want to View Details