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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Leadership Fellows Loan Assistance Community A wide variety of clubs and activities serve as major vehicles for supporting students interested in social enterprise. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum...
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- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
clarify the complex "They can communicate very clearly and succinctly—usually with short words and short sentences—and even on complex issues. They've developed the skills...
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by Danielle Kost
- 21 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Living in a Dorm at HBS
Living in dormitories isn’t just for undergrads anymore—many HBS students opt to live in them during their two years at business school. There are many advantages to this living setup, including that they come fully furnished, are cleaned regularly, and provide access...
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- April 27, 2022
- Article
Inequality in Researchers' Minds: Four Guiding Questions for Studying Subjective Perceptions of Economic Inequality
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Shai Davidai, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Barnabas Szaszi, Martin Day, Stephanie Tepper, L. Taylor Phillips, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva and Oliver P. Hauser
Subjective perceptions of inequality can substantially influence policy attitudes, public health metrics, and societal well-being, but the lack of consensus in the scientific community on how to best operationalize and measure these perceptions may impede progress on...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., Shai Davidai, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Barnabas Szaszi, Martin Day, Stephanie Tepper, L. Taylor Phillips, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva, and Oliver P. Hauser. "Inequality in Researchers' Minds: Four Guiding Questions for Studying Subjective Perceptions of Economic Inequality." Journal of Economic Surveys (April 27, 2022).
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 8: Linking Performance to Markets
By: Robert Simons
This module reading shows how to link profit plans and other performance measurement systems to both internal and external markets. Starting with the transfer of goods and services within a firm, the module discusses the different methods of designing transfer pricing...
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Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Execution;
Transfer Pricing;
Activity Based Costing;
Return On Investment;
Residual Income;
EVA;
Strategy;
Cost Accounting;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Markets;
Investment Return
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 8: Linking Performance to Markets." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-108, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- July 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison M. Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden...
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Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Leadership;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Value Creation;
Decision Making;
Goals and Objectives;
Travel Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Service Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Allison M. Ciechanover. "Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-003, July 2021. (Revised August 2021.) (To be taught in September 2021.)
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
of the process of reducing trade barriers and a limitation on it. The European Economic Community (later known as the EC, and, from 1993, the European Union) was formed in 1957, View Details
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by Geoffrey Jones
- Web
Africa - Global
Highlights May 2024 FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) Reception and Dinner with Prof. Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie in Nairobi In May 2024, the ARC Executive Director joined Professor Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie , his students, View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- Research Summary
Fabrizio Ferri's research focuses on a number of corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on executive compensation and shareholder activism. His dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of firms' decision to reprice... View Details
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Advancing Racial Equity
Generational Wealth for Communities of Color 01 AUG 2024 | Boston Globe Action Plan We’ve developed a plan that makes clear where we stand and where we aim to go, including specific View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
founders “had no hierarchy between themselves, committed to consensus-based decision-making and agreed that clear communication should be a core value of their start-up, going as far as to conduct regular...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 2014
- Supplement
Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Lei Li
This case describes the post-M&A integration of Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company) until 2013. Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine...
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Internationalization;
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Postmerger Integration;
Strategy;
China;
France
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Lei Li. "Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (B)." Tsinghua University Supplement, 2014.
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1.8 Academic Honors - MBA
(“First-Year Honors” and “Second-Year Honors”) to students who have achieved an exceptionally high academic performance and whose conduct has been in keeping with the letter View Details
- April 2019
- Article
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the...
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Keywords:
Global Value Chains;
Sequential Production;
Incomplete Contracts;
Demand and Consumers;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Globalization
Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi. "Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis." Journal of Political Economy 127, no. 2 (April 2019): 508–559. (See Online Appendix. Replications files available here. Also NBER Working Paper 21582.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the...
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Keywords:
Global Value Chains;
Sequential Production;
Incomplete Contracts;
Demand and Consumers;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Globalization
Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi. "Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-028, September 2015. (Updated October 2017. See Online Appendix. Also NBER Working Paper 21582. Forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy.)
- June 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
L'Oréal: Global Brand, Local Knowledge
By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan Johnson
Worldwide, and in the U.S. marketplace in particular, the French cachet of L'Oréal was one of its most powerful marketing tools. However, with the opening up of emerging markets, L'Oréal had to cater to a diverse customer base: an aging population in the West, ethnic...
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Globalization;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Change Management;
Sales;
Emerging Markets;
Segmentation;
Innovation and Invention;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
France;
United States
Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "L'Oréal: Global Brand, Local Knowledge." Harvard Business School Case 311-118, June 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Community Action Partners, a pro-bono business consulting organization of Harvard Business School and Kennedy School alumni working with Boston-area nonprofits and social...
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- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
human-plus-machine-based decision-making. Kost: Do you see the potential for a shift away from the GICS? Srinivasan: We develop certain standards because it creates a common way for us to understand and View Details