Global Firm - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green business profitable is an even harder journey, says Geoffrey... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

School’s centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States to consider the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School’s learning model,... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

01 Dec 2005
News

Faculty Books

International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Lemmens and Sunil Gupta provides a novel method for determining which customers to target in order to maximize the profit of a retention campaign. The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Web

Energy - Course Catalog

will also cover the energy transition needed to reduce climate change and its impacts. It will examine the economic, regulatory, and social contexts that provide the dynamic backdrop for how both new entrants and incumbent firms can... View Details

Profile

Ameel Somani

Searchlight Capital, a startup private-equity firm in New York. Then he'll work with the Aga Khan Development Network on microfinance products in Asia and Africa. "I'll leverage both my past work and the lessons I've learned at... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories

corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of Women’s World Banking, developing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5-billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy in August,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

to other firms than non-star analysts. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13633 The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry Authors:Alan MacCormack, John... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

which eventually homogenizes the information space and decreases actors' propensity to form bridging ties, creating a globally separated network; (2) self-containment of the small-world network, or increasing homogenization of the social... View Details

04 May 2010
News

The History of Beauty

Keywords: Prof. Geoffrey Jones; beauty products; grooming; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced during each phase of her career and how she managed them. Lagarde started her career in 1981 as a lawyer at the global law View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2012
News

Competitiveness at Risk

Americans—especially those in the business community—do to increase the ability of firms to compete successfully in the global economy while raising US living standards? This is one of the most important... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

while producing robust returns. Emily's role prior to HBS was a Commercialization Manager at RXBAR. Mike Kelly (MBA 2022, Section I), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Climate Tech Fund at Fifth Wall Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Terence P. Stewart

of Stewart and Stewart, a Washington-based law firm that represents both domestic and foreign clients on issues of trade and international law, Stewart understands that such disagreements are the predictable outgrowth of a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

company, last fall Robinson joined PRT, a global firm that provides information technology solutions and services to Fortune 500 companies. He stepped in to help lead PRT's initial public offering just after... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company.... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

individual’s preferences. Regardless of their decision, the patent examiners were 4.4 percent more productive than their work-from-home peers. The future may be entirely remote for some companies, says Choudhury, who is currently writing a case on GitLab, a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

The book covers key trends and describes how different firms have coped with shifting pressures. It concludes with an assessment of where equity research is headed in emerging markets and the industry's future challenges. Entrepreneurship... View Details

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