Filter Results:
(1,004)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,004)
- People (2)
- News (359)
- Research (383)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (222)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,004)
- People (2)
- News (359)
- Research (383)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (222)
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Nancy F. Koehn
My research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Using the lens of history, my work examines how individual leaders from business, government and other walks accomplish important—often seemingly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
neighborhood and partying with the rich and beautiful in chateaux across France. But darker truths lurk behind the façade, and Mason View Details
- November 2012
- Case
Building a Community at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
By: Christopher Marquis, Zucheng Zhou, Mo Chen and Heng Fan
Over the past decade, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) had developed a unique set of benefits and cultural amenities for its employees, including a beautiful residential campus, known as the Living Quarters (LQ), and an award winning... View Details
Keywords: Culture And Community; Cost vs Benefits; Civil Society or Community; Organizational Culture; Profit; Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Semiconductor Industry
Marquis, Christopher, Zucheng Zhou, Mo Chen, and Heng Fan. "Building a Community at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 413-083, November 2012.
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
Kyle Leahy (MBA 2011) stepped into the CEO role of Glossier in May 2022 ready to take the brand to new heights. Since its founding in 2014, Glossier had disrupted the beauty industry, created a powerful community-driven brand, View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
annual revenue at those stores from $142.5 billion in 2009 to 97.7 billion in 2018. During the same time period, revenue at Walmart’s “supercenters” (larger stores that also sell groceries and often include services such as eye care,... View Details
- February 2017
- Article
Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Christopher J. Malloy
We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict, on average, which trade links are valuable for firms. Using customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly traded firms, we show... View Details
Keywords: Information Networks; Trade Links; Firm Behavior; Networks; Geographic Location; Ethnicity; Organizations; Trade
Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy. "Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps." Journal of Finance 72, no. 1 (February 2017): 207–248. (Winner of First Prize, the Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research Award, 2015.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the impact of modern business enterprise on the natural environment of Latin America during the globalization waves between the 19th century and the present day. It argues that although global capitalism created much wealth for the region,... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Natural Environment; Outcome or Result; Business History; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Tourism Industry; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey. "Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-009, August 2018.
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
that increase confidence in a person’s entrepreneurial abilities. Like the conviction of Marla Malcolm Beck and husband Barry Beck that high-end beauty retail stores and spas,... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
lot of fantastic complementarities between fieldwork and lab work. Zoë’s projects have all of this rich complexity from the field, where you can see beautiful things like long-term outcomes View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- News
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Read This and Write
short story can be written in an afternoon or a weekend. We all have stories to tell, and it is a thing of beauty to share your mind with the world.” For this year’s competition (deadline June 30), Koruth... View Details
- 2013
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details
Keywords: FDI; Economic History; Business History; Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America
Jones, Geoffrey. Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Exploring Vietnam and Cambodia
seascape of more than 1,600 limestone islands. Shutterbugs in the group were hard-pressed to take bad shots. The sea kayaking wasn’t so shabby, either! We journeyed next to Hue, the former capital of Vietnam, and then stopped for a couple... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
policy and other measures. Of course this is not necessarily a policy prescription: other Asian countries with low levels of inward foreign direct investment, like Pakistan, Myanmar, Cambodia, and North... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
harness the community and the people to do things for environmental causes. The group, basically, spends its time on the water, in interesting and beautiful windy places, on... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- News
Skin of Color in the United States
- February 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Technical Note
The Art and Science of Brand Valuation
By: Jill Avery
Brand valuation, the art and science of calculating the economic value accruing to a firm from its use of an intangible brand asset, yields frustratingly inconsistent, discrepant, and, therefore, controversial results. While it is widely accepted that brands are... View Details
Keywords: Brand Valuation; Brand Value; Brand; Brand Management; Marketing ROI; Brand Equity; Analytics; Return On Investment; Brands and Branding; Valuation; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Investment Return; Consumer Behavior; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Avery, Jill. "The Art and Science of Brand Valuation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 518-086, February 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- November 1994
- Case
Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)
By: Willis M. Emmons III, Monica Brand and Greg Keller
In early 1994, Dow Corning Corp. debates whether to participate in a proposed $4.2 billion product liability settlement. Specifically, the firm must decide whether to contribute $2 billion to end a class action suit filed by women suffering from connective tissue... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Ethics; Health Disorders; Government Legislation; Crime and Corruption; Legal Liability; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Communication Strategy; Lawsuits and Litigation; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Emmons, Willis M., III, Monica Brand, and Greg Keller. "Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 795-047, November 1994.
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) attributes his love of architecture to weekend outings with his father. “I grew up in Nassau County, Long Island, where there was a master craftsman named José Allegue who built distinctive single-family houses,” he explains. “On Sundays, my... View Details