Corporate Values - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1999
News

Short Takes

competitive edge. As one example of a winning strategy, Nolan cites Cisco Systems, a twelve-year-old company that makes routers for networks. In 1998, Cisco reached a market value exceeding $100 billion in record-breaking time. It did so,... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

it " would be enough to cause a resuscitated J.P. Morgan or Thomas Watson to look at today's corporate landscape and collapse with shock."). Through a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership database and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2021
News

The NBA's African Expansion

The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide reveals the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. Written by Ming-Jer Chen,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Work Isn’t Enough: How to Find Your Edge Life isn't fair, especially in the workplace. In Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, Laura Huang offers a new strategy for uncovering and showcasing your unique value in the face of obstacles.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Apr 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. Companies look to hire athletes whose image mirrors their own View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto

Profile

Arum Kang

help customers find it. I suddenly realized how physical business is, how everything in the value chain, from shelf set-up to visual presentation, have to work together to make the ultimate sale." After Lord & Taylor, Arum moved... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

firms' corporate board members, using data from a private research company specializing in biographical information on company officials. Looking at the data, the team found a large correlation between the ethnic makeup of a firm's board... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

all of the values that hackers share, but they tend to agree on at least one thing: Respect must be earned and cannot be derived from position. There are three big challenges that I identified.—Siobhán O'Mahony Much of what is funny about... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Fast Answer

Sustainable investing and ESG resources

by ERM, this report synthesizes survey responses from investors and companies to assess the value and quality of ESG ratings from leading ratings firms. ESG data (public company focus) MSCI ESG Research This platform includes access... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Crisis and Creativity

Texas Instruments were also launched during this time. In fact, the odds on the success of an appropriately directed new venture during a downturn may be higher than in a competitive boom. Entrepreneurs — inside and outside of View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

of the American Marketing Association's 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award. The power of "The Rings"—the brand power of the Olympics—derives from the global recognition of the five rings (representing the five continents), the wide array of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

Blog

Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

We spoke with four participants of our live online programs to learn more about their experience: Augusto Bassanini, President & CEO, United Grain Corporation Trey Ford, Vice President, Platform Strategy and Trust, Salesforce.com, Inc.... View Details

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

the code, which increases quality and value creation. Opened modules, however, are available for others to use free of charge. We derive the set of possibly optimal business models when the modules of the firm and the open source... View Details