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11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, studies how people can lead more... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

power of money and how to use it to make social change." Using Independent Means, teenage girls can attend Camp $tart-Up, for example, where they spend two weeks putting together a business plan. "Graduation" is a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

like a CEO and consider all components of what makes a business thrive – operations, the underlying financials, the importance of strong leadership – and gives you the skillset to address the unique challenges of each. It’s striking how... View Details

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

hit. Business offices turned to remote work, and group communication made an enormous shift from largely in-person to online meetings. Zoom use soared, Teams expanded, and Slack held its own. In the midst of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

enduring legacy. An inability to secure credit emerged as a primary obstacle to financing construction projects. The CEMEX team discovered that to raise capital for building, poor Mexicans would organize tandas, lotteries in which a group... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

in the heat of conflict this became a secondary concern. Just two weeks after the first flare-up, Impress announced that it would be taking its business elsewhere. Kristen worked in a division of RLX that had few dealings with Impress,... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

Companies are increasingly looking to emerging markets like China as a vital source of growth. The problem is these companies often lack an effective strategy for identifying which countries to do business with. In a June Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

08 May 2018
Blog Post

Meet the Entrepreneurship Club

The Entrepreneurship Club at Harvard Business School is dedicated to creating a thriving entrepreneurial community that lasts beyond HBS. We provide high quality events and interactions to help aspiring, joining, and founding... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

you how to think about business problems and arrive at a solution yourself." Sichao Ni Commercial Attaché, U.S. Embassy Singapore at U.S. Department of Commerce What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate... View Details

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

opportunities. The WEoB group is one such network that many women have found helpful. Seventy-seven percent of their members sit on a board, and eighteen percent sit in a chair role. The group has many... View Details

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is “a fragile period” in which... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

209-093 View Details Assured Guaranty By: Robin Greenwood , Adi Sunderam & Jared Dourdeville FEB 2013 (REVISED FEB 2015) | Harvard Business School Case 213-100 View Details Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT View Details

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

Ross to write the paper "Performance Pricing in Tough Times." Shapiro, an authority on marketing strategy and sales management, is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Ross is a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

June 2008
Article

The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque

A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives

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01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

calculated risks." He has followed that philosophy in business as well - and no more so than in 1981, as president of the Polaris E-Z-Go Division of Textron. Says Wendel: "Textron wanted to sell Polaris because the snowmobile View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

suggestions, four topic areas emerged reflecting changes in the workforce and society. Namely, the Class of 1992 wanted to learn about the experience of women in the workforce as the numbers of women in business was steadily growing. They... View Details

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

more. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51866 Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory By: Colpan, Asli M., and Takashi Hikino Abstract—This working... View Details