Filter Results
:
(772)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(772)
- People (4)
- News (153)
- Research (408)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (318)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(772)
- People (4)
- News (153)
- Research (408)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (318)
- February 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Intelliseek
Intelliseek harvests, filters, and mines the content of messages posted by consumers online and on discussion boards and blogs. For any specified consumer product brand, Intelliseek measures the volume of work-of-mouth and its valence (proportion of positive and...
View Details
Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Consumer Behavior;
Knowledge Management;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Web Services Industry
Wathieu, Luc R., and Allan Friedman. "Intelliseek." Harvard Business School Case 505-061, February 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
- December 1999 (Revised January 2002)
- Background Note
Overview of the Project Finance Market, An
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Suzanne I. Harris and Kathleen G. Krueger
This case introduces the field of project finance and supplies a statistical overview of the project finance market as of the mid=to late 1990s. It consists of four sections. The first section defines project finance and contrasts it with other well-known forms of...
View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., Suzanne I. Harris, and Kathleen G. Krueger. "Overview of the Project Finance Market, An." Harvard Business School Background Note 200-028, December 1999. (Revised January 2002.)
- August 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Technical Note
4M: Four-Markets Analysis for Emerging Economies
By: Eric Werker
This technical note describes a methodology for evaluating the political economy of business-government relations in an emerging or frontier economy. The note argues that there are not one but four markets in an emerging economy: the market of "rentiers" such as mining...
View Details
Werker, Eric. "4M: Four-Markets Analysis for Emerging Economies." Harvard Business School Technical Note 713-026, August 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
& McKenzie (B): A New Framework for Talent Management Harvard Business School Supplement 408-009 No abstract available. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408009 Codelco Copper View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past
By: Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta and David Lane
Over the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates—through the...
View Details
Keywords:
Copper;
Imperialism;
IMF;
World Bank;
ODA;
Debt Relief;
Growth and Development;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Labor and Management Relations;
History;
Development Economics;
China;
Zambia;
Africa
Di Tella, Rafael, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta, and David Lane. "Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past." Harvard Business School Case 717-034, June 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- June 2023
- Article
How New Ideas Diffuse in Science
By: Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith and Daniel A. McFarland
What conditions help new ideas spread? Can knowledge entrepreneurs’ position and develop new ideas in ways that help them take off? Most innovation research focuses on products and their reference. That focus ignores the ideas themselves and the broader ideational...
View Details
Keywords:
Innovation Adoption;
Natural Language Processing;
Knowledge;
Science;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge Sharing;
Analytics and Data Science
Cheng, Mengjie, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith, and Daniel A. McFarland. "How New Ideas Diffuse in Science." American Sociological Review 88, no. 3 (June 2023): 522–561.
- Web
HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research
mine insights for the real world. Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted by Rachel Layne 22 MAR 2024 | Research & Ideas Many companies build their businesses on open source software, code that would cost...
View Details
- Spring 2014
- Article
Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning
By: Jill Avery
Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous class participation is essential to achieving learning objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment...
View Details
Avery, Jill. "Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning." Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education 22, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 1–15.
- 08 Nov 2018
- News
Bookshelf: November / December 2018
How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial...
View Details
- 2016
- Book
Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government
By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the...
View Details
Patalano, Rosario and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Web
Online Management Course | HBS Online
Healthcare.gov: The Crash and the Fix The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue The U.S. Army’s AfterAction Reviews Featured Exercises Giving feedback exercise Giving and receiving advice exercise Delegation exercise Conduct your own review Peer...
View Details
Unleashed
When leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to fix themselves. Should they?
When leaders want to improve, they will find no shortage of ideas to help them. They’re told to identify and develop their natural-born strengths, mine failures... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?
features align with the average features of all people of the same gender, race, and approximate age. Average faces tend to be perceived as more attractive—though they’re not always the most charismatic. The researchers mined psychology,...
View Details
Keywords:
by Kara Baskin
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
BerwindBerwind-White Coal Mining Company, 1886–1930 Gordon M. BethuneContinental Airlines, 1994–2004 Jeffrey P. BezosAmazon.com, 1994–Present John D. BiggersLibbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, 1930–1953 Gordon M. BinderAmgen, 1988–2000...
View Details
- Web
Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge
concrete. Concrete is one of the world’s most popular materials, and it accounts for nearly 8% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, most of which comes from cement– the glue that binds conventional forms of concrete. We focus on one type of green concrete produced...
View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines Authors:Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr Abstract Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries...
View Details
- Web
Business & Environment
comes from cement– the glue that binds conventional forms of concrete. We focus on one type of green concrete produced by Urban Mining Industries that replaces half of the cement with recycled glass that makes its product much less carbon...
View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
http://hbr.org/product/multi-sided-platforms-foundations-and-strategy/an/714436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-148 Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne