Indian - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun

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Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details

September 2019
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Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)

By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani

In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; India

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

technology companies. Srikant Datar, Harvard Business School Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. A graduate with distinction from the University of Bombay, he received gold medals upon graduation... View Details

February 2015
Case

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau

Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India

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19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

alone, one can think of Estée Lauder and Mary Kay in the United States; Simone Tata, who virtually founded the modern Indian beauty industry; and Britain's Anita Roddick, the founder of The Body Shop. Among influential female business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

AL Lauren Wainwright Indian Springs School Indian Springs, AL Subjects: American Government, Constitutional Law and Civil Rights MA Wendy Waldron Danvers High School Danvers, MA Subjects: US History I, US... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

yeah—the World Cup. Complete Table of Contents March 2014 Generation Next How Nisa Godrej is remaking her family's storied Indian business dynasty My HBS Eureka Moment Alumni share their moments of inspiration—dramatic and otherwise The... View Details

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Events - Business History

oral history had developed in India and its role in business history. Among other recent initiatives he discussed "itihaasa" , a project to document the growth of the Indian IT industry through oral history. The second half of the... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

of 1988. The book is called The Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne, and it's all about the Indian Wars and how it aligns with the Civil War and that time period. While it's about the Comanche and the settlers and all that was going... View Details

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Our Curriculum - Business History

best-known entrepreneurs, as well as some of the most infamous, and shows their roles in the major events of the last century, from Gandhi's struggle for Indian Independence to the nightmare of Nazi Germany. Placing business in a broad... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

Stay beautiful”—went viral on social media in 2013. (See illustration below) Campaign ad featuring Indian actress Nandita Das protesting skin-lightening creams. Source: Women of Worth, courtesy Rohit Deshpandé Fair skin part of India’s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

powerful. Despite numerous advances in the Indian economy, reduced birth rates, higher levels of female education, and other promising signals (this year saw the highest-ever number of women elected to View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

could benefit in the long run from empowering their employees to meet customers’ emotional needs more often. For example, an equipment company gave its frontline employees a “memorable experience budget” to solve customer problems without needing higher approval. An... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

roughly a quarter of US patent filings. These contributions are reshaping US invention in dramatic ways. “One out of every 11 patents developed in the United States today is either invented or co-invented by an individual of Chinese or View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

recipient. When I applied to HBS, I wrote about wanting to be a “leader in Indian cinema, one who enables new voices, new audiences, and new ways of distributing cinema.” I didn’t become a leader in Bollywood cinema. Well, not yet... View Details

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

the possibility of change. My current research examines solutions for cities and regions, including their surrounding vulnerable treasures—for example, an almost-finished case on the efforts of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians to save the... View Details

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

American Heart Journal Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States? by R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate... View Details

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

firms with 1,200 locations and 2,500 employees. And when Gupta saw Indians losing money by trading on futures, she started Anand Rathi's first vertical focused on introducing people to mutual funds, stocks, and long-term investments.... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

24 Jan 2011
HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

footage of the attack, create a documentary-like account of events that took place over the course of 59 hours. The case also covers the hotel's history, its approach to training employees, the "guest is God" philosophy inherent in View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations

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