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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
history of OB at HBS and focuses squarely on the organizational changes and challenges arising from today's increasingly global and more competitive economy. In the last decade, the faculty have been recognized for their work on... View Details
- June 2019 (Revised November 2019)
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Malaysia: An 'Asian Tiger' Reawakens
On May 9, 2018, in an extraordinary upset, Mahathir Mohamad again became Malaysia’s Prime Minister. Najib Razak, who had headed the government since 2009, had been swept up in the 1MDB scandal—perhaps the biggest state-corruption incident in history. Although... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Leading Change; Malaysia
Vietor, Richard H. K. "Malaysia: An 'Asian Tiger' Reawakens." Harvard Business School Case 719-073, June 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
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School Leadership | About
Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society Raffaella Sadun Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing Forest L. Reinhardt John D. Black Professor of... View Details
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Courses - Entrepreneurship
Sahlman Fall 2023 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy and General Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2023 Q1Q2 3.0 Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences Satish... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Plants (2) Failure (19) Fairness (9) Family Business (26) Family Ownership (6) Family and Family Relationships (10) Film Entertainment (1) Finance (604) Financial Condition (18) Financial View Details
- 2001
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Foreign Multinationals in the United States: Management and Performance
By: Geoffrey Jones and Lina Galvez-Munoz
In this volume, leading scholars in international business and business history examine the investments and performance of British, Canadian, French, German, Spanish and Japanese firms in the United States over time. They explore why so many foreign firms experience... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Books; Management; Performance; Perspective; United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Lina Galvez-Munoz, eds. Foreign Multinationals in the United States: Management and Performance. London: Routledge, 2001.
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Finance - Faculty & Research
mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of US government bond returns. 2014 Working Paper Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt View Details
- January 1984 (Revised April 1987)
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Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe
Faced with large losses in Alcan Aluminum (Europe), Patrick Rich takes the position of area general manager and slashes capital budgets, introduces new financial controls, and sets up mechanisms for increasing cooperation among the national subsidiaries. The focus is... View Details
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe." Harvard Business School Case 484-062, January 1984. (Revised April 1987.)
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Help - Alumni
alumni community) Individuals in the MBA Class of 2006 or earlier having completed one year of the HBS MBA program Central and Eastern European Teachers' Program (ETP) Doctor of Commercial Science (DCS) The General Manager Program (TGMP) View Details
- May 2016
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The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price... View Details
Keywords: Asda; Costco; David Glass; Convenience Stores; Discount Retailing; Dollar Stores; Doug McMillon; E-commerce; Online Retail; General Merchandise; Grocery; Lee Scott; Mike Duke; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Neighborhood Market; Sam Walton; Sam's Club; Store Formats; Supercenter; Supermarket; Warehouse Clubs; Merchandising; Walmart; Wal-Mart; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Banks and Banking; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Global Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Wages; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Web; Web Sites; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Arkansas; Bentonville
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016." Harvard Business School Case 716-426, May 2016.
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Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni
Careers Finding Job Opportunities Careers Finding Job Opportunities Starting to get the job search underway but feeling overwhelmed? These tools can help you stay organized and informed as you start to explore your options. Finding Job Opportunities Alumni Job Postings... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
How should a company deliver financial news—both good and bad—to a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including investors, customers, government, and environmentalists? Energy giants Total and BP have learned best practices through trial and... View Details
- 2014
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The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations
By: Sergey Chernenko, Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and private-label mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by nonprime loans played a central role in the recent financial crisis. Little is known, however, about the underlying forces that drove investor demand for these... View Details
Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel G. Hanson, and Adi Sunderam. "The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20777, December 2014.
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
member, "depressing." Such pessimism seems more than a little counterintuitive. In a global economy, corporations have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that... View Details
- November 2012 (Revised May 2013)
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Naina Lal Kidwai: Investing in Her Country
By: Boris Groysberg and Anjali Raina
This case showcases the 30-year career of Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman of HSBC India, a leading woman business leader globally. It demonstrates how Kidwai spent a lifetime overcoming barriers as a woman in a male-dominated profession and as an Indian in the global... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Anjali Raina. "Naina Lal Kidwai: Investing in Her Country." Harvard Business School Case 413-003, November 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
- July 2012
- Case
Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. - The Belle of the Ball
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In November of 2011 Transatlantic Holdings, Inc., a global property and casualty reinsurance company, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, ending "the most frenzied takeover battle" of 2011, which involved competitors, Warren Buffett's... View Details
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions; Finance; Insurance And Reinsurance; Governance; Insurance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Bermuda; Switzerland
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. - The Belle of the Ball." Harvard Business School Case 313-017, July 2012.
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
Summary When you improve value, everyone wins—your patients, your organization, and the global health care ecosystem. This live online program examines the latest strategies and organizational models for transforming the way health care... View Details
- Winter 2013
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Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency
By: Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
The sub-prime crisis has shone a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has... View Details
Farhi, Emmanuel, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole. "Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency." RAND Journal of Economics 44, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 610–631.
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
with the financial market system. Johannesburg has a stock market as it has had for over a century, and business executives I spoke with said that you can get a future contract of ten years on the rand/dollar exchange rate—which is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli