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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
executive's salary that flows into the firm's coffers. According to Zehnder, that practice-as widespread as it may be-is incompatible with the role of a professional, whose only focus should be on what's good for the client. "Our...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
learned at HBS: “I developed a sense of confidence in myself and in my ability to go out and compete in the business world.” Inspirations & role models: “As a woman, there were no role models!” Best business...
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- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
near-bankrupt companies. Often they are a financial lifeline, and source of new ideas, to companies in need. Their role in the current unfolding crisis, although still to be determined, will undoubtedly be critical. Gerdeman: Chapter 11...
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- 23 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
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by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
- September 2024
- Case
InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility
By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken
Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of...
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- March 2023 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Majid Al Futaim: Adapting the Shopping Mall to the Digital Era
By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2022, as Ahmed Galal Ismail, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Properties and Fatima Zada, digital and omnichannel director at Majid Al Futtaim Shopping Malls, go over the plans to roll out the omnichannel mall offering for the Mall of the Emirates they...
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Business Model;
Strategy;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Value Creation;
Competition;
Expansion;
Profit;
Corporate Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
United Arab Emirates
Moreno, Antonio, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Majid Al Futaim: Adapting the Shopping Mall to the Digital Era." Harvard Business School Case 623-051, March 2023. (Revised August 2023.)
- August 2017 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Payton
This case provides a platform for discussing mental health and depression in entrepreneurship. Why do entrepreneurs have more mental health issues than other professions? What can an entrepreneur do if they face a situation where their mental well-being is being...
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Ghosh, Shikhar, Thomas R. Eisenmann, and Christopher Payton. "Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables." Harvard Business School Case 818-047, August 2017. (Revised November 2021.)
- March 2013
- Teaching Note
Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) (TN)
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Hans Jöhr, Nestlé's head of corporate agriculture, was preparing to meet with the company's board of directors to discuss its vision for the future related to sustainable agriculture. Nestlé's continued success depended on its ability to access the...
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- 2008
- Article
Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States
By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman
Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details
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Entrepreneurship;
Behavior;
Programs;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Business Ventures;
Health Testing and Trials;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply Chain;
For-Profit Firms;
Organizations;
Training;
United States
Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman. "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States." Social Science & Medicine 66, no. 4 (2008): 963–969.
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Professor Coffman studies the sources of gender gaps in economically-important contexts. Her work focuses on the role of beliefs: how do stereotypes bias the beliefs that individuals hold about themselves (and others), and how do these biased beliefs shape...
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The Venture Capital Cycle
In The Venture Capital Cycle, Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner correct widespread misperceptions about the nature and role of the venture capitalist and provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the venture capital industry. Bringing together fifteen... View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
members can and should play a valuable role with students by offering them advice and counsel on academic and career issues, including new ventures. Conflicts of Interest: Financial or business relationships between students and faculty...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
empowered and supported to pursue opportunities despite their gender. Attending HBS with my 18-month-old daughter has been a great honor and a remarkable experience. My mother gave me the courage to fearlessly pursue my goals. Women role...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of...
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Re: Michael E. Porter
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
the ability to move them toward newly designed roles in which these skills could be useful during lockdowns, such as online marketing. For some firms, the forced work-from-home period has also been an opportunity to upskill employees, for...
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- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
respective roles and how they have been contributing to team goals. Team members should be candid about how the work-from-home format has affected their productivity. Some may need assistance getting familiar with mediating tools. Some...
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by Tsedal Neeley
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer Publication:Academic Medicine 87, no. 4 (April...
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Carmen Nobel
- January 2009
- Case
When Supply is of Public Interest: Roche & Tamiflu
The case focuses on the challenges of Roche maintaining a supply network for a global influenza pandemic response initiative based on its antiviral drug Tamiflu. The Roche group is a 40 billion CHF company consisting of a pharmaceutical division and a diagnostic...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Health Pandemics;
Distribution;
Logistics;
Production;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance Capacity;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Watson, Noel H., Laura Rock Kopczak, and Prashant Yadav. "When Supply is of Public Interest: Roche & Tamiflu." Harvard Business School Case 609-061, January 2009.
- May 2008
- Article
When Winning Is Everything
By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Personal Characteristics;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage
Malhotra, Deepak, Gillian Ku, and J. Keith Murnighan. "When Winning Is Everything." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 5 (May 2008).
- 2007
- Working Paper
Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage
By: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks and Patrick Kalaher
Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated....
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Keywords:
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Groups and Teams;
Research and Development;
Performance Improvement;
Management Practices and Processes;
Partners and Partnerships;
Competency and Skills;
Framework;
Competitive Advantage;
Global Strategy;
Opportunities;
Cost
MacCormack, Alan, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher. "Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-079, July 2007. (revised August 2007.)