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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities shape people's actions in organizations. The current organizational literature on multiple identities, however, is sparse and scattered and has yet to fully capture this foundational idea. I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but none of them on instructions... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
robust direct link between CSR and financial performance” It is true that in areas such as environmentally sustainable practices, customers have been willing to pay responsible producers a premium for products; take organic cotton, for... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
incumbent Assad regime. Our results show, first, that refugees are far more likely to agree to a ceasefire proposed by a civilian as opposed to one proposed by armed actors from either the Syrian government or the opposition. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
diminishing the quality and even viability of its offerings. Outsourcing Has Its Costs Just ask Boeing. No firm placed a bigger bet on the virtual organization model. Its new 787 Dreamliner was going to be the UN of manufactured goods:... View Details
- 28 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project
business decision. At times, being a leader who makes a difference in the world felt like a task for a much older, more experienced, more powerful future-self. In reality, we are tasked with being “difference-making” leaders today, and in roles with View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
enterprise market values as well as greater disparities between them suggests that an upturn in mergers and acquisitions can't be far behind. Unfortunately, if research is any guide, the operative question is whether more or less value... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
of the hotel school's student body and organized protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He credits his parents with his abiding interest in leadership and social issues. “They provided us with a moral compass and emphasized the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
The train wreck that was Enron's collapse is only one big, blatant example of how some disasters catch us unawares—but shouldn't. In fact, according to Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins, many surprises in all types and sizes of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Aug 2024
- 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. They wanted to support... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
four qualities—hope, optimism, determination, and self-motivation—that have carried him far from his roots. After leaving home, earning two degrees at universities in India, and working as an international banker for nearly three decades,... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
incentives themselves. After all, while companies don't want to lose customers, targeting too many of them could become too expensive to be worthwhile. “Acquiring a customer is far more costly than keeping a customer” It makes sense to... View Details
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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
branched out into other ports, its employees enjoyed far greater freedom. “I prefer Hong Kong decidedly to Canton. Business was more easily carried on there, it is true, but [in Canton] there is . . . that sensation of restraint which was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
three consulting firms (a role I never wanted to return to), and the excitement of entrepreneurship. All of a sudden, the family business didn’t seem all that glamourous. It was easy to get lost in the herd mentality. It wasn’t until after I graduated, working for a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
than 2 percent of all research published in the leading finance journals. Accordingly, in early July, HBS finance professor Peter Tufano organized a conference for eighty researchers from the United States and Europe to discuss finance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's schools, the chairman of a local... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World
mission of the University, and we are a far better institution for it,” Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers observed in his dinner speech. He then declared, “What HBS does in the next twenty years will be more important than... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
on the cadaver waiting list. “We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with.” They sent the paper to several kidney surgeons. The medical director of the New England Organ Bank met with Roth to pursue... View Details