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01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

12 May 2023
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Alabama's Yella Fella

while Rane could have relocated the business to Atlanta or Houston for a gentler tax bill, he maintained Great Southern's headquarters in his hometown of Abbeville—population 2,000. The company did acquire... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Arthur Rock (MBA 1951) Rock Center was made possible by and named in honor of pioneering venture capitalist Arthur Rock (MBA 1951). The present-day home of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship was constructed in 1970 as... View Details

05 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

business in other languages and cultures. While both law and business were of interest to me in college, the importance of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach became clear in my first job after... View Details

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

What do Sir Thomas More, Chinua Achebe, and Sophocles have to offer today's business leaders? For MBA students in HBS professor Sandra Sucher's course, The Moral Leader, great literature helps them find their own definition of moral... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

organization that not only solved crimes but also prevented attacks. “He thought he was signing up to run a law enforcement agency. He ended up with a job he didn’t sign up for. And God bless him, he pulled it off” Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

resources. But for other types of tasks, cultural heterogeneity had no effect on creative performance. The research is relevant to business practitioners because creating a multicultural workplace is often touted as a strategy to foster... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Editor's note: Building and landscape design can do much more for an organization than provide an inspirational headquarters or appealing work spaces. At Harvard Business School, the leafy, orderly,... View Details

Keywords: Education

31 Mar 2022
Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

congenial work atmosphere for doctors and nurses, and handsome economic returns for its owners. The hospital’s leadership has forsworn expansion to avoid diluting its unique offering. But then we also have Narayana Hrudalaya, a cardiac hospital View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

far short of the budget. In April 1995, McCool led a meeting at headquarters to review the first quarter's results. People entered the room trembling, as they knew that financial performance would be below expectations and that, in the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

1977) MORE A century after the introduction of the first case to Harvard Business School, the case method remains the cornerstone of the educational experience. But it is also clear, from the scores of stories submitted here, that certain... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad... View Details

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

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

perspective, it’s not obvious why the CEO of Apple, which is headquartered in California, would get involved in a contentious debate about gay rights in Indiana.” ”From a business perspective, it’s not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

It may be time to think about who really creates value in your organization, starting with customers and employees. Harvard Business School professors W. Earl Sasser and James L. Heskett discuss their book, The Value Profit Chain.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

management of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53855 Modeling Oral View Details

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

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Greenhill House | About

business.” Robert Greenhill (MBA 1962) is chairman of Greenhill & Co., LLC, an international merchant-banking firm he founded in 1996. Headquartered in New York, the firm has offices in key financial centers around the world. Greenhill... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Why. She has appeared as a guest on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business News and has been a guest speaker for WWD’s Beauty Innovation Forum, Harvard University’s Luxury Branding Speaker Series and Columbia University’s Lang Center for... View Details

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