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- June 2023
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Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems
By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi
At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth; Fintech; Company Management; Growth Strategy; Innovation And Strategy; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change; Finance; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communication Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
Cohen, Lauren, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger, and Ruoshi Qi. "Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 223-055, June 2023.
- March 2020 (Revised April 2021)
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Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey' (A)
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Mariana Cal
At the center of one of the largest corruption scandals in Latin America, Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht signed a leniency agreement with American, Swiss and Brazilian prosecutors in 2016 admitting to paying bribes in 12 countries. In an effort to regain financial... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Organizational Transformations; Business Ethics; Corruption; Internal Controls; Business And Government; International Business; Engineering And Construction; Family Businesses; Corporate Misconduct; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Ethics; Engineering; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Emerging Markets; Construction Industry; Brazil; Latin America
Srinivasan, Suraj, Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas, and Mariana Cal. "Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey' (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-002, March 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Business Administration, Harvard University, 1944. Full Text Available Callahan, Sean. “Dr. Land’s Latest Bit of Magic.” Life 73, no. 17 (October 27, 1972). Full Text Available . “The Camera Does the Rest.” View Details
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive... View Details
- March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
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Group Functions at the Maersk Group
By: David J. Collis
In 2014, seven years after he was appointed CEO of the Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Møller Maersk (the Maersk Group), Nils Andersen was reexamining the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate."... View Details
- December 2014 (Revised February 2016)
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Group Functions at the Maersk Group
By: David Collis and Matthew Shaffer
In 2014, seven years after he was appointed CEO of the Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Møller Maersk (the Maersk Group), Nils Andersen was reexamining the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate."... View Details
Keywords: Maersk; Business Units; Conglomerates; Decentralization; Core Business; Value Added; Synergy; Headquarters; Shipping; Petroleum; Oil And Gas; Drilling; Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Denmark
Collis, David, and Matthew Shaffer. "Group Functions at the Maersk Group." Harvard Business School Case 715-432, December 2014. (Revised February 2016.)
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and... View Details
Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face--And What to Do About It (March 2010)
Denial -- the unconscious belief that a certain fact is too terrible to face and therefore cannot be true -- has torpedoed many good businesses and more than a few great ones. It turns challenges into crises, and dilemmas into catastrophes. It is one of the greatest... View Details
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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
Framework for Leading Classroom Conversations about Race Harvard Business School Publishing 15 JUN 2020 | Stephanie Creary Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience 3 SEP 2019 |... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
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A Day in the Life: IT Business Analyst | Information Technology
Print Share via email What does an average day look like for an IT business analyst at HBS? The answer is: it depends! Ryan Conwell, manager of the IT Business Analysis team, explains that the role is... View Details
- March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
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Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details
Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-he Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-108, March 2015. (Revised August 2020.)
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
1901–1951: The Fifty Year Story of United States Steel. New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1951. Flukinger, Roy and Fritz Henle. Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A.... View Details
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
on the home front. Documenting the Wartime Effort: Slider Hanging bombs on paint conveyor line, Christy Park Works, McKeesport, Pennsylvania. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1940. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business... View Details
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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
Framework for Leading Classroom Conversations about Race Harvard Business School Publishing 15 JUN 2020 | Stephanie Creary Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience 3 SEP 2019 |... View Details
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Kress Collection of Business and Economics Graphic Materials | Baker Library
are represented in the collection, including Breughel, Goltzius, Rembrandt, Hogarth, and Gillray, to name a few. The Bleichroeder collection was given to the Kress Library of Business and Economics in 1975 by the View Details
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
communications; and 3) strategy work, contributing to the institution’s five-year plans and analyzing business cases for new investments. “As Chief of Staff at Boston Ballet, I have a lot of indirect... View Details