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- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank... View Details
- 17 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”
Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team’s motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details
- March 2000 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
VacationSpot.com & Rent-A-Holiday: Negotiating a Trans-Atlantic Merger of Start-Ups
Describes a potential trans-Atlantic merger between two young companies in the Internet space. VacationSpot.com, based in Seattle, and Rent-A-Holiday, based in Brussels, both offer online listings and reservations for independent leisure lodging (i.e., villas,... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Valuation; Internet and the Web; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Travel Industry; United States; Brussels
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "VacationSpot.com & Rent-A-Holiday: Negotiating a Trans-Atlantic Merger of Start-Ups." Harvard Business School Case 800-334, March 2000. (Revised April 2004.)
- February 2006 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment
By: Michael Chu and Barbara Zepp Larson
Post-merger, the head of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide must now oversee operations in 98 countries serving 6.6 million students, with over 7,600 local chapter board directors. President and CEO David Chernow's own board has increased to 111 members. Two separate... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance; Business or Company Management; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Balance and Stability
Chu, Michael, and Barbara Zepp Larson. "JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment." Harvard Business School Case 306-025, February 2006. (Revised May 2006.)
- 2020
- Book
Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time
Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies... View Details
Keywords: Leaders; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Community; Change Leadership; Innovation; Problem Solving; Cross-sector Collaboration; Institutional Change; Leadership; Change; Leading Change; Communication; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020.
- 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
Pitteloud, Sabine. "The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 64, no. 2 (2019).
- 2013
- Book
What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
How do you create your own definition of success—and reach your unique potential? Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us—and... View Details
Keywords: Career Planning; Vocational Guidance; Job Satisfaction; Satisfaction; Personal Development and Career; Customization and Personalization
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential. Boston, MA, USA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
is a leading source of diverse talent for Google; Goldman Sachs; Procter & Gamble; Deloitte; and many other top firms 95 percent of its MBA Prep Fellows have been accepted by top-25 View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
During the 2009 global recession, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) helped Ford Motor Company avoid government-financed bankruptcy. Now, as president and CEO, he is focused on serving customers around the globe with great products while building... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in the Music Industry
From the time I arrived at HBS, I knew that my path to finding a summer internship wouldn’t be very traditional. Although I’ve managed to find others that share my career interests, working in the music industry remains an uncommon path... View Details
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
Two years after non-fungible tokens (NFTs) captured the attention of artists, celebrities, and brands, debate still rages over their value. But NFTs could be poised to make a comeback in 2024, argues Scott Duke Kominers, the Sarofim-Rock... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
there.” When they met up at a Global Networking Night in 2019, the two agreed they could combine Ayengar’s experience with launching the Singapore club with Weintraub’s View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
that if she lost her job, she couldn't pay her children's school fees or pay for a doctor," says Pomeranz, an assistant professor in entrepreneurial management at Harvard Business School. “How can we... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Web
Engage with the broader business community to promote racial equity. - Advancing Racial Equity
approach racial matters. Our initial actions in the broader business community are therefore focused on learning from and alongside others rather than taking the lead on advising or instructing others. In... View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
at Harvard Business School. “It was better designed and nicer to use.” However, when Amazon released its Kindle e-reader three years later, it included an important feature: a connection to wifi that allowed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
think about it is almost like an apartment building. We own the apartment and rent to tenants, except the tenants are T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, etc.” In this way, American Tower plays a significant role in maintaining View Details
- Web
Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art Featuring artists Thaddeus Mosley, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, and Carrie Mae Weems in conversation with Professor Henry McGee, Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details