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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

  • 22 Jun 2022
  • Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

them through an exercise that’s specific for uncovering the current forces at play in each of the Four Element areas. For the Identity element, we arrive at fresh new language for the day-to-day work activities that are most likely to be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The Leadership Fellows program offers nonprofit and public sector organizations the opportunity to leverage the experience, energy, and analytical skills of MBAs for one year. In addition to the salary provided by the organization, HBS provides Fellows with an upfront... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

to become better employers. “Throughout my career, I have explored how private capital and public resources can be leveraged to ensure people living in historically marginalized communities have the opportunity for economic mobility,”... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

The Appeal of the Appropriate: Accounting, Risk Management, and the Competition for the Supply of Control Systems

By: Anette Mikes
How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate the aftermath of a control debacle at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on its insurance... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Multiple Control Systems; Interactive Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Risk Measurement; Financialization Of Accounting; Institutional Logics; Banking; Risk Management; Fair Value Accounting; Insurance; Financial Services Industry
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  • June 2010
  • Article

The China Rules: A Practical Guide for CEOs Managing Multinational Corporations in the People's Republic

By: Lynn S. Paine
To achieve growth and profitability in the world's third-largest economy, multinationals need strong leadership--but China is tough on top executives. Pulsating with opportunity, China attracts foreigners, yet HR professionals continue to rank it as one of the most... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership; Management Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; China
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  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

advisable or even necessary to invest in a response. In other cases, you may as well save your money, according to the researchers. The study also concluded that even though high-end customers can be fickle,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

years. I eagerly applied and was fortunate to be accepted. The program has exceeded my expectations. First, you gain a more intimate academic experience as part of a 30-person class while still being fully... View Details
  • Web

Hiring International Students

Long-Term Employment The H-1B category is the most common long-term work visa but it may be just one option for you. In fact, each year more than 25,000 US companies employ at least one international worker in H-1B status. Common Business... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

“Just because we observe women doing well in a particular negotiation situation, it doesn’t necessarily mean all women will do well in that situation” But a recent laboratory experiment shows that when women... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the product. There would View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

Intractable Problems as well as a first-time HBS course, Managing and Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India. Will you be incorporating this breakthrough in them? Khanna: Both the courses are... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
  • Career Coach

Imam Akinlade

tech, Imam can share key insights into how to assess each of these industries against your personal post-MBA job criteria as well as what to expect in each of these industries from sourcing to recruitment and onboarding. He is also happy... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Case

North Forty: Managing Liquidity Through Change

By: Luis M. Viceira and Brad Towne
This case explores the interaction between spending and investment decisions at a family office, specifically the family office of Jeff and Tricia Raikes, with special emphasis on the management of spending, portfolio investments, and asset liquidity in the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Spending; Planning
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  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

We offer the rescue as an extraordinary example of extreme teaming, to illustrate the enormous potential of diverse experts coming together to innovate to overcome a nearly impossible challenge. The case illustrates the centrality of diverse perspectives in producing... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

individual will perceive entrepreneurial opportunities as well as increase his or her motivation to pursue those opportunities. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Can China Lead?

Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

infrastructure to encourage more recycling among customers. That will require end user education, something the company is well positioned to do, but didn’t explicitly commit to. Further, a more comprehensive recycling infrastructure will... View Details