Global Operations - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

centers into more nimble operations that can sustain its renewed brands far into the 21st Century. Nancy F. Koehn, James E. Robison Professor Of Business Administration: General Motors was formed in 1908, the same year Henry Ford brought... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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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

21 Jan 2020
Cold Call Podcast

China-based Fuyao Glass Considers Manufacturing in the US

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was Asia-Pacific head for Endeavor, the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

next? Key Themes: As a public pension plan, CalSTRS operates in the context of a complex array of stakeholders, who from time to time push for divestment or other values-driven investment decisions. And yet, as a fiduciary, CalSTRS must... View Details

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms moving large assembly operations back to the U.S. have faced, along with recommendations for more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

impact became incompatible with growing the company, as Professor Geoffrey Jones writes in the book Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership. “It’s one of the challenges of our time,” Jones explains. “In... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

framework of functional biases (whether those biases are intentional or not), the analysis of the political dimension of the forecasting process, and the idea of a coordination system are new constructs to better understand the interface between View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2009
Working Paper

Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others

By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate

This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Behavior

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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement

Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine... View Details

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

productivity improvement plus growth strategy? While they consider these options in September 2008, the credit markets are about to clamp shut as a global financial crisis is around the corner. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company (HMC) began operating in July of 1974. HMC's investments in venture capital, which began within a decade,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

of needed capital. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55334 2018 Handbook of Healthcare Analytics: Theoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations Competing Interests By:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Harvard Business School

Jackson, senior advisor, joined New Mountain in 2008. Jackson has over thirty years of operations and logistics management experience leading consumer product companies and retailers. Jackson was president and CEO of View Details

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Ellen Desmarais | About

marketing. She went on to lead HBP Education unit, navigating it through the pandemic and expanding outreach to educators globally while outpacing industry revenue growth. Most recently, Ellen served as Chief View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

16 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

distribution operations of personnel and supplies for large-scale training exercises and deployments. It was a foundational experience that ultimately drove me to HBS—I realized that I could be, and wanted to be, a leader. What was your... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

New Home for External Relations

The recent growth of faculty associated with key academic initiatives in areas such as entrepreneurship, information technology, and global business has contributed to an acute shortage of office space at HBS. In response, the School has... View Details

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