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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Tencent
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426.
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details
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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
bankrupt the company. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53093 2017 The Moral Responsibility of Firms Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—A long-standing question... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
As executive director of Florida's aquarium project in Tampa from 1987 to 1993, for example, James M. Stuart (MBA '69) used spiritual practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost impossible View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
with them. Keinan: It's interesting that both of these chefs may have different passions and solutions, but that [they] started not only business ventures, but ventures with larger visions or missions behind it. It's a very interesting dilemma of how do you balance... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they'd hire an MBA. According to several deans, that's no longer true. Financial services and consulting firms, which hire... View Details