Corporate Scope - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Nov 2019
News

Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

of a crash. Simple attributes related to the price run up can help predict both the crash probability and future returns. FUTURE SCOPE Greenwood is also conducting research that looks at predicting financial crises, which harnesses data... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

26 Nov 2019
News

Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

the process—that you cannot plan the path to an innovation. Instead, you have to act your way there. Other key factors that encourage innovation are the vision leaders bring to the table and the sense of purpose that those within an organization need to have. FUTURE... View Details

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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

about a job at the Wildlife Conservation Society. It was such an unexpected synergy of circumstances. I really fell in love with the organization, the people (who are primarily scientists), and the scope of the opportunity. In my current... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

determine types of projects or corporations respond to specific requests from nonprofitsMiminal performance ecpectations Shared visioning at top of organizationProjects of limited scope and risk that... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

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Collection Areas | Baker Library

brokerage-house reports, charts, and unpublished corporate histories. HBS Art Program & Collections The art collections at HBS serve as a key teaching and learning resource for the HBS community and beyond. The collections are especially... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

company located in eight countries. “With close to 800 interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible... View Details

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

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

even centuries. In contrast, the New World has a number of large, publicly held corporations that are beginning to play a substantial role in the marketplace. To put this in perspective, consider the fact that France has over 230,000... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

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Andrew Dervan

management course with Peter Slavin, MD, MBA, president of Massachusetts General Hospital, that opened his eyes to new possibilities. "I was impressed that Dr. Slavin could sit at the table with both the clinical department heads and the View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

emerging technologies. Looking at corporate strategy, Cynthia Montgomery and Associate Professor David J. Collis recently published Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

January 2009 (Revised May 2011)
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China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy

By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, G.A. Donovan and Tracy Manty

China Mobile was the world's leading mobile communications service provider with over 400 million customers. In some cities, its penetration rate was over 100%. With such huge successes, Chairman Wang Jianzhou was exploring ways to expand its customer base. Nearly... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Investment; Rural Scope; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China

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30 Apr 2024
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IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World

Potential for Global Partnerships and Collaboration The MCAP emerged as part of a broader dialogue amongst key cities from C40’s network for collectively addressing climate change. Given the global scope of climate change, coordination... View Details

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Patrick Akl

combine a CPU and a graphics processor on one piece of silicon. While the engineering work was rewarding, Patrick became increasingly intrigued by the strategic complexities of running a large corporation like AMD. “I already had a good... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Fast Forward

same, but the scope has expanded from just research to helping business leaders take action to make America more competitive. The number of faculty involved has grown from 15 to almost 25, and a host of HBS alumni and View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

is a limit to the scope of top management intervention. What do you think? To Read More: Michael Birshan, Marja Engel, and Olivier Siboney, Avoiding the quicksand: Ten techniques for more agile corporate... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Is the Foundation

Supporting Faculty Research Endeavors When Tsedal Neeley joined the HBS faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor, she was already deeply interested in the impact that corporate common language practices have in global businesses. “I had... View Details

November 2011
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The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim

This report examines the concept of integrated reporting and its current state of adoption around the globe. It also discusses the benefits to both companies and society and recommends ways boards can help their organizations accelerate the implementation of integrated... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Social Issues; Global Range; Adoption