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06 Oct 2019
News

Private equity takeovers of listed companies hit jobs hardest, study finds

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Jun 2023
HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

example for companies struggling to re-engage “quiet quitters” while balancing rising costs and mixed economic signals. The company began in the Netherlands in 2006 as an antidote to what the founders viewed... View Details

Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health

24 Apr 2014
News

Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives

Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the... View Details

November 2017
Case

BeiGene

By: Willy Shih and Jimmy Zhang

BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity. Because of regulatory challenges in China, most innovative new drugs launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window... View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceuticals; China; Regulatory Environment; Business Strategy; Business Startups; Innovation Strategy; Situation or Environment; Pharmaceutical Industry; China

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21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies, only 2.6 percent of CEOs are... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Business. At its core, the new system compares a fund manager's investments with those of other successful fund managers, making past performance less important in the rating scheme. In short, funds are rated by the company they keep.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help corporations make better location decisions? Porter: The competitiveness... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite investors. Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) mandated that any... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

I was doing, so I decided to make a change. I applied to HBS.” She arrived at HBS, thinking that it might help her figure out the next step in a finance career. She was also interested in exploring social impact investing. HBS helped her “get a real View Details

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

defrauding investors. A sure sign of the ethical lapse at Theranos was that “people started asking questions, and they got fired,” Nelson says. Wells Fargo’s 2016 account fraud scandal, in which bank representatives were pressured into... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

08 May 2015
News

A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details

January 2018
Supplement

BeiGene Supplemental PowerPoint

By: Willy C. Shih and Jimmy Zhang

BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity. Because of regulatory challenges in China, most innovative new drugs launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window... View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceuticals; China; Regulatory Environment; Business Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Situation or Environment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China

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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Collections Site Credits United Fruit Company Photograph Collection, 1891–1962 Bringing fruit out to loading platform, Puerto Castilla, Honduras, circa 1920s . Mss: 1 1891–1962 U860 78 boxes, approx. 10,400 photographs in 75 albums and 3... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

“There was not a single person or car,” he recalls. The eerily quiet scene was a jarring reminder that the pandemic was taking a huge toll on many businesses that saw sales and revenue figures abruptly plummet. Rouen and two fellow researchers were inspired to put a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

Although many companies aspire to promote easy interaction and coordination across departments, office locations, and pay scales, the "boundaryless" organization—like the paperless office—hasn't materialized. The corporate silo is alive... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Morgan and other established banks that had a hold on heavy industries like steel and railroads were reluctant to invest in riskier emerging fields such as retail—leaving an opening for smaller family firms... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 29 Nov 2018
Webinars: Career

The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of your Company

Angel investor Steve Kirschner explains how to maximize the M&A valuation of your company heading into a private sale.

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26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Project at Harvard Business School. They found: US importers are bearing most of the tariff increase. The pre-tariff import price of a Chinese item with a 10 percent levy only fell by 0.6 percent even 10 months after the trade war began, leaving American View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

practices that companies can follow to put this into place: Link work to social purposes employees care about Recruit Holdings believes work should add value to society. It also operates under the philosophy... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

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