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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up 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 Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

departments, the HBS Global Initiative and its off-campus centers, and provides RA training services. Services CRG case researchers have contributed to over 1,900 projects... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

communication and encouragement, they can find the courage to try, fail, redo, and try again. Carliss Baldwin How can companies tap their customers for innovative ideas? Firms... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

president and CEO of Estée Lauder International Inc. "Ted's writings taught me that relationship management is particularly relevant in a global business," she adds.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

Strategic Management Product Market Strategy By: Menon, Anoop, and Dennis Yao Abstract—Product market strategy is the collection of choices, actions, and activities of a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

work-from-anywhere, we still need to occasionally meet colleagues in person for social purposes.” Marrying flight and patent data Choudhury and colleagues examined flights from every airport worldwide—5,015... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Commission. A year later, in July 2021, Slack was acquired by Salesforce, the world’s largest customer-relations management software company. Butterfield and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff shared the same goal:... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

May 2023
Article

Decarbonizing Health Care: Engaging Leaders in Change

By: Vivian S. Lee, Kathy Gerwig, Emily Hough, Kedar Mate, Robert Biggio and Robert S. Kaplan

Health care leaders are often surprised to learn that their operations contribute significantly to a warming climate. In addition to their roles as responders to and victims of extreme weather events, health care organizations have an obligation to reduce... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Net-zero Emissions; Climate Change; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

and improve the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the U.S. to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high... View Details

November 2012 (Revised July 2013)
Case

Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products

By: Gautam Mukunda and Thomas J. DeLong

Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. AIGFP's failed trades had... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

schedule would do the trick, with the bulk of the payment due when procurement budgets are replenished. The frustrated supplier also may be overlooking a fundamental set-up barrier. While top management from both View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 2012
Article

Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance Over Time

By: Chi-Ying Cheng, Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris and Leonard Lee

This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We argue that challenges that arise from cultural diversity in teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty; Culture; Value

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July 2004 (Revised May 2008)
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Beacon Lakes

By: Arthur I Segel, Robert Barlick Jr and Jose Gonzalez

In September 2001, Armando Codina, the CEO and chairman of Codina Group, is facing the decision of whether to go ahead as planned with its $220 million Beacon Lakes project, a 6.6-million-square-foot warehouse and office park in Miami's Airport West submarket. Although... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Urban Scope; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Expansion; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; Everglades National Park; Miami

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

spent four years in London as cohead of the firm's European operations before resigning in 1996 to found Compass Partners International, a privately held investment banking advisory and investment firm that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

12 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

the UPS Foundation Associate Professor of Service Management in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. “When we are feeling bad, one way we cope is by comparing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service

December 2021
Case

Whistleblowing at Veolia: A Technology Solution

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese, Christian Godwin and James Weber

In 2019, Bruno Masson, the vice chairman of Veolia’s Ethics Committee, was preparing for a meeting on a rollout plan for a new whistleblowing system to more countries. Veolia, a global supplier of water, waste, and energy services, had recently gone through several... View Details

Keywords: Whistleblowing; Corporate Misconduct; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Values and Beliefs; Trust; Employee Relationship Management; Utilities Industry