Far East Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

Sports teams are not far behind. In fact, almost everyone who is challenged by a friend, coworker, or family member joins in. If ice buckets can help fund research to shed light on a terrible disease, such as ALS, more power to them, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

definition of capitalism. Strategy for Philanthropic Organizations Foundations have traditionally focused on doing good by providing funding to worthy social enterprises. Instead, foundations should set the higher goal of creating social... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

taught me to be curious, to question everything, and to never stop exploring. These traits that she instilled in me have taken me far from home, but her love and comfort always bring me back. No matter how View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

of information and perspectives between the two firms, and led to a novel type of agreement. ABB would design and build the plant at a far lower cost than standard. Then, if ABB could reduce the cost even further, it would receive a... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - MBA

East and North Africa South America United States Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and peddling networks. But no nation... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

sold - the stability, the pay, what more could I really want? I had made it so far from being the little girl on welfare helping her momma with her younger siblings. I was set to return to P&G for a second internship, and since I had... View Details

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

From Beirut With Love (A)

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details

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07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

that whatever technology you choose to implement you execute it flawlessly. Similarly, it matters little whether you centralize or decentralize your business as long as you pay attention to simplifying the way your organization is... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

play a role in regulating hormone levels in employees. The bad news is that far too many business situations actually fuel the very hormones that trigger unethical behavior. The findings are detailed in the paper Hormones and Ethics:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Apr 2023
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

10 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

intervention, the researchers could see the average effect of all of the interventions public health organizations were running on the platform. Using online platforms proved to be cost-effective. The authors estimate that every $5.68... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

to one of your managers, bring it up with the manager and put yourself in their shoes as you help them with this employee. Be empathetic and manage your power carefully. Product If you’re a product-centered CEO/founder (versus, say, marketing- or sales-centered), the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA

East and North Africa South America United States Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

provides a venue for the exchange of ideas among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and leaders of organizations from across the globe. 2018 AASU 50 The 50th anniversary of the founding of the African-American Student Union was used as a... View Details

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. In Leaders Leap, he makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of... View Details

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