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- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
finalize a deal, but that's often not enough. Many countries have webs of influence that are more powerful than the actual parties making the deal, even though those webs don't have the formal standing of, say, government agencies. In Japan, it may be the keiretsu—...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
also raised awareness of a range of HBS faculty working on climate.” Afternoon plenary sessions took on scaling accountability and impact. Serafeim, Tufano, and senior lecturer Jim Matheson moderated discussions on how board governance...
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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
course. Our objective is to provide students with perspectives and insight into the eighth largest economy in the world. Although it is dominated by SMEs (companies with annual revenues of below 50m make up 82% of the employed population, and View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Photo courtesy of Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) started at HBS in 2002, the private space industry was really just...
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- January 1989 (Revised April 1991)
- Case
General Electric: Valley Forge (A)
By: Robert L. Simons
A series of eight vignette cases designed to be taught in one classroom session. This case describes a potential problem in the way that General Electric has billed the government under a large defense contract. Designed to allow students to discuss what actions top...
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Government Administration;
Contracts;
Policy;
Accounting;
Management Teams;
Business and Government Relations;
Industrial Products Industry
Simons, Robert L. "General Electric: Valley Forge (A)." Harvard Business School Case 189-009, January 1989. (Revised April 1991.)
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
European economy. Firm-level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are significantly positive, on average, controlling for country and industry fixed effects, as well...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY...
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- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
are used to good service from other industries and expect higher performance than they see on the delivery sector. They obviously worry a lot about whether their insurance will cover the medical services they need, but they are also...
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- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
overlooked question: If Japanese government policies and practices accounted for the nation's extraordinary competitiveness, then why wasn't Japan competitive in many of the industries where those policies...
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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
recycling waste materials from retired products. Grundfos encourages its customers (both consumer and industrial) to return old pumps; they then fully deconstruct and repurpose or recycle the pump’s constituents. Today this program is small, View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
to the researchers, successful digital economists share three broad skill sets: the ability to assess and interpret empirical relationships and work with data; the ability to understand and design markets and incentives, taking into View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the New Economy here? Maybe The View Details
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by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few...
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- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
(MBA 1982) as the keynote speaker. Club president Nancy Schmitt (MBA 1991) says Immelt spoke about a range of topics, including China and his work with the Industrial Roundtable for the Obama Administration. "He provided warm, reflective...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Federation of America Award for Media Service. His most recent book,My Vast Fortune, due out this month, is a memoir that recalls some of his greatest adventures and misadventures with money. It includes accounts of another facet of...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
bank, “on the ground floor,” first as a teller, then accounts clerk, safety deposits clerk, and bookkeeper. “All of these roles helped me understand the guts of the organization,” he says. “It was humbling, but I am forever grateful,...
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Margie Kelley