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22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in "The Power of Activism:... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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PJ Meyer

"You always have a dream, a hope for something great. I aimed for the top – HBS. The more I looked at it, the more I realized it was a great fit." "Subversive" learning Without a lot of business experience behind him, PJ needed an MBA program that... View Details

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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics, used at Harvard and elsewhere in MBA curricula and in executive programs. Professor Reinhardt also teaches regularly in the HBS Agribusiness Seminar, and he teaches an MBA... View Details

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

in the family affairs of its most senior executives, family or not. Akfen Holding, founded 50 years after Koç in Ankara, holds a variety of construction, engineering and other firms related to infrastructure development. It has about... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2007
News

LBS Picks New Dean

BUCHANAN: LBS an asset to business around the globe. Photo COURTESY LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL When it came time for the London Business School to appoint a new dean, a ten-month global search turned up the right candidate close to home. Late... View Details

Keywords: dean appointment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

together” "By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain everything you did for the customer in putting that product or service together," says Bhavya Mohan, a Harvard Business School doctoral student in marketing. "When View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

consumer trust is no longer a brand; it is merely a name. The Merrill Lynch brand is unlikely to ever recover and Bank of America should drop it. Merrill Lynch is no longer a brand. Both before and after the collapse of the Internet bubble, Merrill and its... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Viktor Puzakov

participated in expeditions searching for the remains of soldiers missing in combat from the Great Patriotic War (World War II). “We found forty-one soldiers. But Russians soldiers didn’t have dog tags,” Viktor explains. Instead, they... View Details

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2019
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Remembering William Wilder

Gundy, becoming executive vice president/EVP in 1961 at the age of 38, and six years later president and chief executive. Under his leadership, the firm played a dominant role in financing Canada’s big... View Details

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Working PapersSecuring Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:(Forthcoming in Tax Notes) Abstract Tax policy toward American multinational View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article, Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower.) Developing View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company.... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

Professor David M. Upton is the faculty chair of BCAO. He spoke with an Executive Education staff member about the course.EE: How do you define the term "operations"? Upton: "Operations" constitutes all of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Arjun Chopra

services company, where he launched and led their cloud business. He was a member of the board and executive team that raised multiple rounds of financing. He led 350+ people, managed 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was... View Details

Keywords: Finance;#64;#Software/App;#68;#Transportation & Logistics;#75;#Venture Capital;#238;#Fintech;#237;#Artificial Intelligence;#71;#Travel, Tourism, & Hospitality

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GlobalData Disruptor | Baker Library

services, and healthcare sectors. Areas of focus include: artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices and IoT, digital business, robotics and drones, security tech, and more. Disruptor offers: Coverage of 40,000 startup companies and 14,000 venture capital... View Details

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