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- March 2015
- Teaching Note
McKinsey & Co.—Protecting its Reputation (A) and (B)
By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
McKinsey & Co—Protecting its Reputation (A&B) is a field case written from the perspective of the Firm's Managing Director Dominic Barton. The two cases describe the actions McKinsey & Co took to protect the firm's reputation after the Rajat Gupta matter.
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Keywords:
Consulting Firms;
Leadership & Corporate Accountability;
Leadership And Change Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Leading A Global Business;
Corporate Culture;
Professional Service Firms;
Professional Service Firm;
Leadership;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Consulting Industry;
United States
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign investment and where there are no local capital markets, if foreign...
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Nonprofit / Government
- December 2018
- Supplement
The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with 'International Values and Local Roots' (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley
Vittorio Colao, CEO of telecommunication giant Vodafone, must respond to reports of disturbing accounting practices at two of Vodafone’s operating companies. In one case, €60 million have been misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting...
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Keywords:
GLOBAL-LOCAL;
Global Identity;
Local Identity;
Accounting Discrepency;
Globalization;
Leadership;
Trust;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Organizations;
Identity;
Local Range;
Global Range;
Values and Beliefs;
Accounting Audits
Neeley, Tsedal. "The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with 'International Values and Local Roots' (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 419-032, December 2018.
- February 2014 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
Komatsu in China
By: Krishna Palepu, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
Komatsu built a very successful business in China over the last two decades. But it is now facing rising competition from lower cost domestic Chinese companies which are themselves trying to become global players. Facing the same situation, Caterpillar is implementing...
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Keywords:
Leading A Global Business;
Building A Business In Emerging Markets;
Emerging Markets;
Construction Industry;
China;
Japan
Palepu, Krishna, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo Sato. "Komatsu in China." Harvard Business School Case 114-004, February 2014. (Revised April 2014.)
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
the summer and worked at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign investment and where there are no local...
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- Editorial
What Mark Zuckerberg Understands About Corporate Purpose
By: George Serafeim
Keywords:
Leadership;
Facebook;
Corporate Purpose;
Mission;
Mission And Purpose;
Vision;
Employee Engagement;
Globalization;
Inclusion;
Capitalism
Serafeim, George. "What Mark Zuckerberg Understands About Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 22, 2017).
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
Clubs News Clubs News Reconnecting and Reimagining the Future at Global Networking Night The 2021 HBS Global Networking Night (GNN), held on October 20, celebrated 55 global...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Impact on a Global Scale “We are living at an extraordinary point in the arc of history,” says Tom Tierney (MBA 1980). “Countless leaders, from social entrepreneurs to corporate executives to public servants, are aggressively committing...
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- January 2017 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Weathernews
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Akiko Kanno
Tomohiro Ishibashi (Bashi), chief executive officer for B to S, and Julia Foote LeStage, chief innovation officer of Weathernews Inc., were addressing a panel at the HBS Digital Summit on creative uses of big data. They told the summit attendees about how the Sakura...
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Keywords:
Crowdsourcing;
Operations;
Globalization;
Weather;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Global Strategy
Lakhani, Karim R., and Akiko Kanno. "Weathernews." Harvard Business School Case 617-053, January 2017. (Revised August 2017.)
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used...
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- April 2008
- Teaching Note
TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial (Brief Case)
By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong
Teaching note to case #2184
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What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate
By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
Workplaces have adopted internal social tools—think stand-alone technologies such as Slack, Yammer, and Chatter, or embedded applications such as Microsoft Teams and JIRA—at a staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Social Tools;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Knowledge Sharing;
Performance Improvement;
Management
Leonardi, Paul, and Tsedal Neeley. "What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 118–126.
- September 2009
- Teaching Note
IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [308105].
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Global Outposts Expand HBS's Intellectual Footprint - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Global Understanding Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint HBS’s global outposts—15 research centers and offices spanning five continents—play a critical role in...
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- December 2016 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago
By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris
In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for actions they took during the Global...
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Keywords:
Personal Development;
Career Journey;
Leadership Development;
Career;
Leadership;
Government and Politics;
Personal Development and Career;
Public Administration Industry;
United States;
Chicago
Margolis, Joshua, and Michael Norris. "Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago." Harvard Business School Case 417-023, December 2016. (Revised February 2019.)
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
economic growth, enhances our global visibility, informs policy decisions, and promotes cultural exchange—all contributing to positive development across sectors” he says. “At the same time, all the main stakeholders—government, the...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we empower business leaders to make an impact on the biggest challenges of our time. Together, we are...
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- January 2016 (Revised May 2016)
- Case
IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A)
By: Karthik Ramanna, Jérôme Lenhardt and Marc Homsy
A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The article sparks criticism of IKEA from the Swedish government and its customers in the West. Critics contend that IKEA is not living up to its own commitments to...
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Keywords:
Corporate Values;
Islam;
Multinationals;
Globalization;
Leadership;
Equality and Inequality;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Religion;
Organizational Culture;
Gender;
Consumer Products Industry;
Saudi Arabia;
Sweden
Ramanna, Karthik, Jérôme Lenhardt, and Marc Homsy. "IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 116-015, January 2016. (Revised May 2016.)
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I am working at Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc (CHAI), a global health...
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