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Global Business Course | HBS Online

risk, and create and capture value for their organization Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through quizzes. Description of silent animated... View Details
  • 17 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Petia Topalova
  • 16 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Cost of Friendship

Keywords: by Paul Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov & Yuhai Xuan
  • 13 Jan 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Private Equity and Industry Performance

Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen & Per Strömberg
  • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya
In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan
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  • December 2016
  • Article

Social Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing

By: Stav Rosenzweig, Amir Grinstein and Elie Ofek
The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great interests to authors, editors, and the discipline’s policy makers. A key understudied driver is social network utilization by academic researchers. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Social Networks; Academic Reserach; Human Capital; Country Of Origin; Scientometrics; Social and Collaborative Networks; Research; Marketing; Gender; Human Resources; Social Media
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  • January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture

By: Ranjay Gulati
Customer centricity has been an important part of the culture at Cisco Systems since its inception. While part of this is attributable to values put in place by the founders and retained by subsequent management, it is also closely interwoven with its organizational... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employees; Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Business Units
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  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

self-sufficiency measures, suggesting that priming luxury is different from priming money. Future research should also examine the mechanisms through which luxury goods activate self-interests. We posit that several potential mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 19 Apr 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran; Technology
  • Research Summary

Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details
  • 2019
  • Article

The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
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  • 05 Feb 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details
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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

sustainable competition. Providers Stay competitive by adopting a strategic approach, restructuring the delivery of care, and measuring costs and outcomes to increase patient value. Patients Participate actively in managing personal... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

opportunistic ." forms of growth (such as "financial securitization"). Milton Puryear added "truck-type SUV sales" to the list of activities deserving low multiples, commenting that, "How is it growth if it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

receptiveness, according to Gino: Actively acknowledge the other perspective. You can do this by saying things like: "I understand that...," or "You are saying ..." Acknowledging the opposing view doesn't mean that you agree with it—it... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

I. She will join Ayala Corporation, the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines, as a corporate strategy manager, where she’ll be charged with active portfolio management across its business units and investments. During your EC year, what... View Details
  • Blog

Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus

and social activities that help you recharge and make new friends. At the same time, we make it easy for you to maintain your regular exercise regimen or even embark on a new commitment to fitness. Whatever your goals, the HBS campus has... View Details
  • Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

applications present opportunities for job creation by broadening the scope and scale of a company's product portfolio. Conversely, internal-facing applications are more likely to affect knowledge workers' jobs. "AUTOMATING THESE TASKS WILL ENABLE KNOWLEDGE WORKERS TO... View Details
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Research Design - Impact Investments

documentation of data on the activities of impact investors and the social impact of private equity to the greater community of researchers and practitioners. Diane Burton et al., “The Project on Impact Investments’ Impact Investment... View Details