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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
As companies ride the digital wave, many find that switching up old, tired practices and deviating from the norm can be crucial to survival. But sometimes things can be taken too far. During the Digital Initiative Summit at Harvard... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in... View Details
- December 2013
- Article
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of State Equity Purchases
By: Carlos F. K. V. Inoue, Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
In many countries, firms face institutional voids that raise the costs of doing business and thwart entrepreneurial activity. We examine a particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Development Banks; State Capitalism; Performance; State Ownership; Brazil
Inoue, Carlos F. K. V., Sergio G. Lazzarini, and Aldo Musacchio. "Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of State Equity Purchases." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 6 (December 2013).
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
most? Are these connections more important if you are somebody in sales versus someone in research?” You Might Also Like: How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
Markets Unit at HBS. The cases hold a crucial lesson for business leaders: Tormenting workers can result in dire consequences. While the cases describe an extreme example, Montgomery wonders if the improper pressure tactics used at France... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help corporations make better location decisions? Porter: The competitiveness... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies, only 2.6 percent of CEOs are... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
example for companies struggling to re-engage “quiet quitters” while balancing rising costs and mixed economic signals. The company began in the Netherlands in 2006 as an antidote to what the founders viewed... View Details
- November 2017
- Case
BeiGene
By: Willy Shih and Jimmy Zhang
BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity. Because of regulatory challenges in China, most innovative new drugs launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window... View Details
Keywords: Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceuticals; China; Regulatory Environment; Business Strategy; Business Startups; Innovation Strategy; Situation or Environment; Pharmaceutical Industry; China
Shih, Willy, and Jimmy Zhang. "BeiGene." Harvard Business School Case 618-033, November 2017.
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
Business. At its core, the new system compares a fund manager's investments with those of other successful fund managers, making past performance less important in the rating scheme. In short, funds are rated by the company they keep.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Collections Site Credits United Fruit Company Photograph Collection, 1891–1962 Bringing fruit out to loading platform, Puerto Castilla, Honduras, circa 1920s . Mss: 1 1891–1962 U860 78 boxes, approx. 10,400 photographs in 75 albums and 3... View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite investors. Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) mandated that any... View Details
- January 2018
- Supplement
BeiGene Supplemental PowerPoint
By: Willy C. Shih and Jimmy Zhang
BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity. Because of regulatory challenges in China, most innovative new drugs launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window... View Details
- 23 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School
I was doing, so I decided to make a change. I applied to HBS.” She arrived at HBS, thinking that it might help her figure out the next step in a finance career. She was also interested in exploring social impact investing. HBS helped her “get a real View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
Although many companies aspire to promote easy interaction and coordination across departments, office locations, and pay scales, the "boundaryless" organization—like the paperless office—hasn't materialized. The corporate silo is alive... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
defrauding investors. A sure sign of the ethical lapse at Theranos was that “people started asking questions, and they got fired,” Nelson says. Wells Fargo’s 2016 account fraud scandal, in which bank representatives were pressured into... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert