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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
credit constraints, and I find no imbalance in observable characteristics between treatment and control groups. These findings strongly suggest social safety nets have spillover benefits on the supply of firms. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
campaign. An Iowa native who has spent a dozen years in the field working for UNICEF, Van Gerpen observed that despite Sierra Leone's devastation, "people have a clear desire here to improve their lives. I guess you could say that's where...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
development. What’s their motivation? The observations presented in research by Professor Marco Iansiti and Gregory Richards (MBA ’99) suggest some fundamental changes in strategy used by technology companies. Visit...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
to market, said Scott. Using Web services to streamline internal processes has reduced their vehicle design process from forty-eight to eighteen months. "You can't see middleware, but you can prove ROI quicker than you can on some applications," View Details
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
where big deals are available—Japan and South Korea—are highly competitive and tend not to be friendly towards foreign firms. The high-growth markets of Southeast Asia generally offer smaller targets or minority stakes in large companies. Below are snapshots of my...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
good news, however, one indicator remains stuck: the 500,000 Greeks who packed up their lives and left to find economic opportunity elsewhere. They haven’t come back. For a country of 10 million, the exodus of half a million people amounts to a meaningful percentage of...
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- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
United States,” observes Risher. “Worldreader has created these tools. Now we wanted to see if we could deploy them in the United States.” By the end of 2020, Worldreader had signed up two big partners—World Vision and Raising a Reader—to...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
observes Dean Nitin Nohria, who deferred his plans to step down as dean until December in order to lead the School through this crisis “Every day, we must make key decisions amidst significant uncertainty and with incomplete information....
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Jen Mele
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
diverse and unique ways as an effective strategy for achieving industry dominance. "In the IT industry, we can observe a fundamental change in management principles from constrained innovation to unconstrained innovation," Nolan notes....
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Eileen K. McCluskey
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Exploring China's Belt & Road Initiative - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
regional connectivity and embrace a brighter future,” while some observers see it as a push to enhance China’s role in global affairs with a China-centered trading network. The course exposed students to the diversity of views across the...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
opposed to in the real world?" In a panel on "Technology and Commerce," HBS professor David B. Yoffie elaborated on that theme, observing that the big challenge for CEOs today is "not necessarily to start something new, but how to bring...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto offers a simple View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom quite comfortably, as Professor...
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Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
of the same techniques that I observed at the CPCL, such as role-playing and getting students to speak and listen to one another in one-on-one discussions at the beginning of class,” she remarks. “It's simply fantastic to watch students...
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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important even as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
period, I was transformed as well. Like many women of color, I doubted my worthiness to lead because the business world recognizes only one style of leadership—a style defined by white men. But observing two such men lead my company has...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
monthlong hike in the Colorado wilderness. Musing on the connections between his business and writing careers, Barron observes: "The people I know who have done best in business pay attention to the subtleties of human relations and motivations. They have a good sense...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
of information that she could not find elsewhere, she realized her research might help others as well. "The book is the collective wisdom of those who've been there, the anecdotal advice only a friend might tell you," observes Cohen....
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Stephen H. Baum (MBA ’65) with Dave Conti (Crown Business) What made Jack Welch, Gordon Bethune, and Cathy Black extraordinary leaders? Based on interviews with more than two dozen CEOs and a career of serving and observing CEOs as a...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
slowdown of wireless technology, and the increasingly bright outlook for venture capital and private equity. Global private equity funding has been on the order of $300 billion since the beginning of 2000, with over 60 percent of that investment occurring in Europe,...
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