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    Making Meritocracy

    How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic... View Details
    • 30 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience

    Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services
    • June 2021
    • Case

    One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais
    This case explores how a family business builds a board that includes independent directors that helps to professionalize and strengthen governance in the company. The case relates to One Family Textiles, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered manufacturer of garments. The company... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Decision Making; Accounting
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    • 21 Aug 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Anandi Mani
    • January 2023
    • Article

    Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes

    By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Victoria Sevcenko
    Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations. But such relocated workers are often exposed to external employment opportunities at their destinations, possibly triggering turnover. We... View Details
    Keywords: Worker Relocation; Turnover; Firm-induced Migration; Smaller Towns; Employee Mobility; Geographic Mobility; Migration; Clusters; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance; Opportunities; Retention; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management
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    • November 2019
    • Case

    Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Tanvi Deshpande and Shreya Ramachandran
    In May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was having a hard time... View Details
    Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Management; Financial Condition; Problems and Challenges; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 18 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Energy; Utilities
    • 02 Apr 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: April 2

    Impact Investment Omidyar Network (ON), having deployed over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to rural employment. The social... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 28, 2010

    and efficiency), based on structural characteristics of the task and team. We also distinguish between a team's mean use of stored knowledge and the concentration of knowledge use in a team. Using objective data from several hundred software development projects in an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Ways to Give Today - Alumni

    India. The IRC qualifies as a charitable not-for-profit, and gifts made to the IRC in India may qualify for personal tax deductions. Under Section 80-G of the Indian Income Tax Act, donors will receive a 50% deduction on donations made to... View Details
    • 05 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Power of Political Voice: Women’s Political Representation and Crime in India

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra & Petia Topalova
    • 2018
    • Article

    Knowledge about Tuberculosis and Infection Prevention Behavior: A Nine City Longitudinal Study from India

    By: Sophie Huddart, Thomas Bossuroy, Vincent Pons, Siddhartha Baral, Madhukar Pai and Clara Delavallade
    Background
    Improving patients’ tuberculosis (TB) knowledge is a salient component of TB control strategies. Patient knowledge of TB may encourage infection prevention behaviors and improve treatment adherence. The purpose of this study is to examine how... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Knowledge Dissemination; Behavior; India
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    • 20 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Language Wars Divide Global Companies

    fine with the new policy (most Indian workers are already bilingual, training at university in English), while many Germans found reading and speaking English awkward, making it difficult to express and defend their ideas. According to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • December 2018
    • Case

    Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance

    By: Suraj Srinivasan, Iris Leung and Quinn Pitcher
    Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in India, but its leading market position was being challenged by... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Operations; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Analysis; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 13 Dec 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School

    • Web

    Junior Achievement Fellowship - MBA

    at Harvard Business School was established by Royal Little, former Chairman of Textron, Inc.; the late James E. Robison, former head of Indian Head, Inc.; and the late Lawrence Fouraker, HBS Dean from 1970 to 1980. View Details
    • January–February 2024
    • Article

    Shared Service Delivery Can Increase Client Engagement: A Study of Shared Medical Appointments

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Kamalini Ramdas, Nazlı Sönmez, Kavitha Srinivasan and Rengaraj Venkatesh
    Problem Definition: Clients and service providers alike often consider one-on-one service delivery to be ideal, assuming – perhaps unquestioningly – that devoting individualized attention best improves client outcomes. In contrast, in shared service delivery, clients... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Customer Satisfaction; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko and Tarun Khanna
    A longstanding literature holds that firms should hire and move talent from the geographic periphery to hubs as a means to create value from human capital. They do so, however, at the risk of losing the worker to rivals located in the same geographic hub,... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Residency; Technology Industry; India
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    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    That Was Then, This Is Now

    letter as evidence of a dream pursued. I will remain steadfast in my belief that the Cleveland Indians will win a World Series before I die. I will savor a glass of champagne at the end of every day, toasting to family, friends, faith,... View Details
    Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

    has been working on entrepreneurial solutions to the problems of economic development for decades. Harvard Gazette: Why is the Chandrayaan-3 landing important? Tarun Khanna: It’s a part of the moon that has never been landed upon, and the View Details
    Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace