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- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Business Club with Josh Sandler (MBA/MPA-ID 2016), he worked to deepen the School’s connection to the area and says, “HBS can play an important role in showing its students that there is more than one side to the story of Africa.” For 18 years, the student club has... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
analysis, sustainability, and value creation. “The AMP increased my ‘can-do’ attitude. I had a unique, if not once-in-a-lifetime, opportunity to mix with such a diverse global group of leaders and to engage them in and outside of class on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
global franchises and innovation at ConvaTec, helping to prepare the $1.8 billion, London-based company to go public. After its successful IPO, in 2018, Hudson took some time off to travel with her husband but fully expected to return to... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
Providing Advantage and Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youths
makes them stronger and more resilient as an employee then many folks who have never faced any type of adversity in their lives. “So I think what our country needs to do is really embrace the fact that, if we are going to have a globally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence from a multi-year research agenda at several mainstream View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
career in venture capital private equity to launch a global movement that has brought together governments with service providers and has attracted private investment to pay for a variety of social programs. One such program in 2010... View Details
- April 1987 (Revised April 1987)
- Case
Tiberg Co.
By: Michael Beer and Daniel J. Isenberg
Describes the efforts of a vice president of purchasing to coordinate and centralize purchasing procedures in a multinational company. He encounters a lack of active cooperation. A rewritten version of an earlier case by G. Lombard. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Power and Influence
Beer, Michael, and Daniel J. Isenberg. "Tiberg Co." Harvard Business School Case 487-079, April 1987. (Revised April 1987.)
- Web
MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated View Details
- June 2005
- Case
Growth and Profitability at Fresenius
By: Joel Podolny, Vincent Dessain, Monika Stachowiak and Anders Sjoman
In March 2005, Mark Schneider, CEO of Fresenius, is considering the group's strategic and organizational future. The highly decentralized 7 billion euro German health care group is active in three different business units, with the largest, FMC AG, listed separately... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Diversification; Organizational Structure; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Germany
Podolny, Joel, Vincent Dessain, Monika Stachowiak, and Anders Sjoman. "Growth and Profitability at Fresenius." Harvard Business School Case 405-083, June 2005.
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
comes from never-ending, short-term pressures of the stock market. An even greater factor is the global nature of competition today, which pits American organizations directly against counterparts in Asia,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
- Case
Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000
In 1993, Booz.Allen & Hamilton forsook its previous, highly local organizational structure. It was motivated by a desire to serve multinational clients more effectively and to provide greater value to clients with more localized business by collecting best practices... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Service Industry
Loveman, Gary W., and Jamie O'Connell. "Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000." Harvard Business School Case 396-031, October 1995. (Revised March 1996.)
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
very hard...inside! As you may recall from my letter in the October issue of the Bulletin, this year the Board is tackling three important areas of concern to alumni: global alumni issues, information technology, and alumni career... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Capital Management, a $20 billion family of mutual funds, she is also a board member of other for-profit and nonprofit entities. Among them is the Global Heritage Fund, which Cohen chairs, an organization... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Clubs: Capital Improvements
president and COO of global private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Youngkin, the recipient of the club’s first alumni achievement award, participated in a panel discussion on the changing face of business in DC with Jean Case, CEO of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- September 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Sanford C. Bernstein: Growing Pains
By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
To remain competitive, Sallie Krawcheck and Lisa Shalett, Sanford C. Bernstein's director of research and associate director of research, respectively, were examining the need to expand the research department's size, not only domestically but also internationally.... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion
Groysberg, Boris, and Anahita Hashemi. "Sanford C. Bernstein: Growing Pains." Harvard Business School Case 405-011, September 2004. (Revised November 2004.)
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
In a recent post for HBS Working Knowledge, Howard Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus, and Shirley Spence, writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, detail how organizations led by HBS alumni are responding to the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School's learning model, we provided participants with a "case"—this one consisting of the World Bank's scenario for global economic... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
become severely compromised, as we have seen recently with several banks that repeatedly accepted huge deposits from corrupt government officials and organized crime elements. What is the global impact of... View Details