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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and a set of human values that everyone could connect with. People around the world value trust, want meaning out of work, and want to do good and well. In the example of Standard Chartered Bank, people from a diverse set of countries and backgrounds could View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
While the more autocratic Rajapaksa ended the war, he did so with intense and indiscriminate air, sea, and ground assaults, resulting in an international outcry over human rights violations; some estimates put the number of Tamil civilian...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
political leaders in the country are wrestling with the question, what comes next? Will Japanese companies adopt western business practices, and at what cost to its own uniqueness? As with the School's four other international research...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie Anne Hastings (Xlibris) In this memoir, Hastings relates how, as...
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Celebrating our Student Fathers - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
through either internal or external growth," he predicts. The hope, of course, is that consolidation will heighten efficiency and increase a company's ability to locate new sources of oil, resulting in more control over oil supply and...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars. Bower and Gilbert recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
properties in Brazil are run mostly by Brazilians. They know our culture, but they also know how to get around Brazil much better than anyone in Mexico City." DeRemate's Guillermo Cepeda echoes that sentiment, noting that for his company, "the entire team in every...
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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
crowds can be expected to provide wisdom and show, theoretically and empirically, that their efficacy is related to crowd sophistication and task complexity. Consistent with this framework, we find that a "crowd-of-crowds" approach, which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
Award honoree, Clara Wu Tsai, is a businesswoman, investor, and philanthropist. She is governor and an owner of the WNBA’s New York Liberty and an owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets. As vice chair of BSE Global, the teams’ parent company, she oversees all matters View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
inward at their internal approaches to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. April White: What has the response to the pledge been? Lisa Lewin: 08:34 The response has been remarkable. We have well over 1,000 signatures by senior...
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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
responsible for a jump in their pay. In fact, the new system had simply cut out the middlemen, who once took what they saw as their rightful piece of the pie. Related Content: Case: Roshan: Light at the End of the Tunnel in Afghanistan...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
almost 9,000 miles of travel. "I think the logistical challenge that we have today in Brazil is probably bigger than any other country has seen." For Sender, the event has forced a complete rethink of operations at TAM, which flies to 42 domestic and 19 View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of team members’ intra-organizational diversity (based on affiliations...
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- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
international order, and so on. Time equations handle complexity by simply adding terms with Boolean logic that test for the presence of a particular feature that adds or subtracts time to overall processing time, a simple and elegant...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
in international development, big tech at Google, government service in the Obama administration, and on the founding team of the healthcare startup Cityblock Health, I watched fertility and pregnancy companies enter the digital health...
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- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
widely, and research shows that it's often tough to increase profits by investing abroad. A new study of the grocery retail industry reveals that with a few exceptions globalization's benefits have not accrued to retailers. Local retailers dominate most countries, and...
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Carmen Nobel