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- 2012
- Teaching Note
Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao, and Hong Zhang. "Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
window into the young online-software market. He saw a need for a product similar to Hotmail that was tailored for businesses, a web-based email solution with calendaring and scheduling capabilities. “I thought it was a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
find creative ways to use it, will have an advantage in the job market. If I knew then what I know now: “When you’re a student you always think, ‘I’m going to have a great career. It’s going to be... View Details
- October 6, 2015
- Article
Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable
By: Francesca Gino, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth and Alison Wood Brooks
Women are underrepresented in most high-level positions in organizations. While a great deal of research has provided evidence that bias and discrimination give rise to and perpetuate this gender disparity, in the current research, we explore another explanation: men... View Details
Gino, Francesca, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 40 (October 6, 2015).
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
Even though the internet has been publicly available for almost three decades, executives at just about every company are wrestling with how to use digital technology to advance their business strategy. We asked professors from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
appetite for social media companies, LinkedIn is the lamp bearer among U.S. companies in that industry that are considering tapping into public markets. The case can serve to illustrate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
start of a project,” the researchers note. “The choice of the writer (and his/her gender), to a great extent, influences or correlates with later choices—including View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS
how I should spend my time as an MBA student. A recurring piece of advice was “get to know your classmates beyond the classroom.” HBS does a great job at encouraging deep conversations among students –... View Details
- Web
Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
time to think about acquiring [Company B]? Diagnosis: How would the acquisition affect [Company A’s] competiveness in the industry? Description: How is [Company A] thinking about financing View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
long-standing belief that great leaders have vision and influence, the researchers found that entrepreneurial leaders have more confidence of their abilities than the average... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- September 30, 2019
- Article
Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Today, we have made climate change trivial by making its solutions easy, looking for simple answers that are palatable, generally framing it in the language of commerce. In the long run, it won’t work. There is no technological or political silver bullet to solving our... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift." Behavioral Scientist (September 30, 2019).
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
Great Leaders A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/rezendeluan View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
problems. What I do as an interviewer, before going into the interviews, is I re-read your whole application so that I'm ready to have a great conversation with you where we can go beyond scratching View Details
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
created from the exploitation of natural resources for primarily the land-owning elite in Latin America, at the cost of large-scale destruction of View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
isn't what we observe [that] is getting in the way of great leadership. We're finding that if we can change the orientation, progress can be made.” We’ve been teaching people... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Research Summary
Identity Work, Itinerant Careers, and Management Education
I investigate how and where individuals develop, revise and consolidate identity narratives that afford them some degree of self-esteem, a sense of direction and purpose, and social legitimacy, in the context of careers that feature discontinuities, mobility and... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
also find important insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. I firmly believe that the template for business education can be very broad.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
United Fruit cleared and planted undeveloped tracts of land, created extensive railroad and port facilities, and operated a large steamship unit known as “The Great White Fleet.” The company came to own or... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?
By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
Rogers, Steven, and Kenneth J. Cooper. "Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?" Harvard Business School Case 317-079, January 2017. (Revised December 2017.)