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19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

capacity for generosity. In the following conversation with the HBS Alumni Bulletin, they share insights into the research on why we respond the way we do, when asked. Alumni Bulletin: You’ve both studied... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

can HBS aspire to set an example? A: In the world at large, we ought to be held accountable for turning out the kinds of leaders the world needs, people who bring both character and competence to their work. Do our alumni make the world... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

not be sufficient. I would like the next recession to come after we’ve had a chance to give proper management training to the people who are actually going to implement that change. It requires a fundamentally different aproach in the... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

other economists offers a new way of thinking about this puzzle. Published in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research, On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms shows that simply View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

illness in June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin's Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. "I was clueless... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

October 2012 (Revised September 2014)
Case

Doing Business in Vietnam

By: Alan MacCormack, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Dawn H. Lau

This case gives an overview of the current business environment in Vietnam as of 2012. The first part of the case introduces the main economic, political and cultural aspects of the country of which anyone who has business interest in the country ought to be aware.... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Business History; Economic History; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy; Viet Nam

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Educators

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

on what you need to achieve as a company, you're toast." Daniel Gulati and Vivian Weng (both MBA '11) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a "community-curated marketplace for independent fashion" that circumvents the traditional department store... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Q: Could you give an example of a technological innovation that you think will have great impact? A: The... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

venture. Q: "Rich vs. King" is a concept that you've introduced to the venture lexicon. Please explain it and give an example of how it affects decision-making. A: At almost every stage of a startup's evolution, founders face a tension... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

business opportunities. "The basic idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks," says Iyer. "If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

1999 to be UPromise's president and chief operating officer. Last March, almost precisely when the NASDAQ Composite Index peaked above 5,000, the company—a few months old, with a business plan and a few employees as its only assets—received $34 million in venture... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

diverged. Shih: I'll give you a historical example. In the semiconductor industry, outside of Intel and a few smaller players, most U.S. semiconductor manufacturing has moved offshore to places like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

point. "His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident," noted a 1976 article in the Harvard Gazette. "The reply completed, Mr.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Morriss (HBS MBA '04),... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

27 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings

Keywords: by Michael Luca & Jonathan Smith; Education; Information; Publishing

April 2021
Case

The Incentive for Legacy: Tsinghua University Education Foundation

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao and Spencer C.N. Hagist

Vivian Yuan seeks to bolster the Tsinghua University Education Foundation's fundraising efforts and investment goals in a new era of Chinese higher education. Competing with elite members of China's C9 League of top universities, she must develop a set of incentives... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Marketing; Strategy; Negotiation; Organizations; Markets; Higher Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Motivation and Incentives; China

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Educators

Purchase

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

Professorship of Business Administration, "HBS alumni were directly involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and venture capital,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

case closes with Cirne wondering if he should push back or give up yet another remnant of his position at Wily. Wasserman (who has taught the case in The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit alumni program and in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

especially when it has long time horizons.—Kent Bowen At a mid-March HBS Centennial colloquium titled "Science-Based Business and the Business of Science," these and other ideas were batted back and forth by academics and scientists from across Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

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