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- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
“Global Survival Kit” condition chose to donate all six items, compared with just 5 percent in the “gift” condition and 3 percent in the cash condition. “The strength of the increase was a really nice surprise,” says Doug Wayne, director...
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by Carmen Nobel
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy...
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- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
about and what you’re willing to sacrifice (or as Strategy puts it: choose what to be bad at). Kate LeBeau (MBA 2019) Pregnant EC | Delivery EC How has being at HBS shaped your experience during pregnancy/delivery/early motherhood? ...
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- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
analysis, sustainability, and value creation. “The AMP increased my ‘can-do’ attitude. I had a unique, if not once-in-a-lifetime, opportunity to mix with such a diverse global group of leaders and to engage...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
scientist.” Missed innovation opportunities Koning, an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS, teamed up with John-Paul Ferguson of McGill...
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by Kristen Senz
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy...
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- October 2019
- Case
China Merchants Bank: Ushering in the Era of Family Office in China
By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
China Merchants Bank, the sixth-largest lender in China, intends to boost its family office business as a result of an increase in the population of ultra-high net worth individuals. Already ranked China’s number-one private bank with AUM exceeding US$300 billion, the...
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Family Office;
Strategy;
Banks and Banking;
Organizational Design;
Competitive Strategy;
Banking Industry;
China
Cohen, Lauren, Hao Gao, Billy Chan, and Dawn H. Lau. "China Merchants Bank: Ushering in the Era of Family Office in China." Harvard Business School Case 220-032, October 2019.
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &...
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- February 2012
- Case
Henkel: Building a Winning Culture
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was...
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Performance Measurement;
Performance Appraisals;
Human Resource Management;
Values;
Organizational Transformations;
Pay For Performance;
Strategy Execution;
Values and Beliefs;
Work-Life Balance;
Organizational Culture;
Human Resources;
Performance Evaluation;
Compensation and Benefits
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Henkel: Building a Winning Culture." Harvard Business School Case 112-060, February 2012.
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
world. Hoa's route to the head of Galaxy has been a circuitous one. After high school, she lived in the former Soviet Union while attending the Moscow State Institute of...
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Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
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By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection...
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Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After...
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Entrepreneurship;
Governance;
History;
Strategy;
Auto Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Service Industry;
Turkey
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey." Special Issue on Business Groups around the World. Business History 58, no. 1 (2016): 69–88.
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California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to...
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Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy." Business History Review 90, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 31–56.
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
general areas of inquiry, and engagement platforms, such as the Learning Network and the Research Accelerator. These are the initial building blocks of an ever-evolving...
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April White
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
quality of research. Moreover, once a sell-side analyst has prompted an institutional client to take a large position in a stock recommended by the analyst, the analyst faces a disincentive to ever downgrade...
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- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
Many people assume that nostalgia is purely entertainment, a feeling individuals enjoy because it takes them back to the more carefree days of their youth. Some view it as maladaptive fixation on the past, perhaps indicating a fear View Details
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All Industries
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- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
global organizations, with PetroChina currently leading the list with a market value of more than $1 trillion. The impact of this phenomenon on competition is interesting. Just ask the manager View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- November 2006
- Case
Santander's Acquisition of Abbey: Banking across Borders
Banco Santander, Spain's largest commercial bank, announced in July 2004 the acquisition of Abbey National Bank, the fifth largest U.K. commercial bank. This transaction was the largest ever cross-border acquisition in European banking and would result in the...
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Integration;
Value Creation;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Globalization;
Commercial Banking;
Banking Industry;
United Kingdom;
European Union;
Spain
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Eduardo Ballarin, and Jose Manuel Campa. "Santander's Acquisition of Abbey: Banking across Borders." Harvard Business School Case 707-485, November 2006.