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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Rwanda

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Rwanda? Country information and economic data Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): Useful for: in-depth country information covering recent economic and political developments, View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Finland

covered for every country.  Search tips: select a specific market then narrow region to relevant GEO country. Country information and data Economist Intelligence Unit Useful for: in-depth country information covering recent economic... View Details
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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

Employer Relationship Managers for support The Career & Professional Development team is here to support you in recruiting HBS talent. For questions about recruiting strategy, coming to campus, hosting virtual events, and more, reach out... View Details
  • February 2010
  • Case

Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel

By: Gary P. Pisano and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
In 2009, Amyris Biotechnologies was building a plant in Brazil that used synthetic biology to convert sugarcane into both renewable fuels and renewable chemicals. The Amyris' marketing team was investigating the commercial interest for both types of products, while the... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Risk Management; Product Marketing; Product Development; Production; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Brazil
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  • March 2004 (Revised February 2006)
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Salt Lake Organizing Committee, The: 2002 Olympics

By: H. Kent Bowen, Bryce LaPierre and Courtney Purrington
After two and a half years of effort, Fraser Bullock, COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, faced projected deficits and post-9/11 security requirements only five months before the opening ceremony. Summarizes the organizational structure and processes put in place by... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Planning; Practice; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Sports; System
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  • 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

Teaching you to deal with a problem when it's small. That fair is fair. Unless you're early, you're late. But how do you think your upbringing shaped the way that you managed and led? JI: Yeah, look, I mean, I think it's a combination of... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Such motives spring from the humanitarian values possessed by the organizations or individuals involved. Utilitarian motives, on the other hand, cater to the partners' organizational needs, focusing on issues like risk View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

two, he had become “a difficult child,” and by three she was calling him a “troublemaker.” He discovered one day that he could run, and he has been running ever since. Golf: A Course in Business: A Few Lessons Golf Can Teach Us About View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Apr 2000
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Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind

focused mainly on avoiding risk -- and more on resource attraction, which nurtures innovation. For the past 41 years, the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research has offered awards recognizing the two... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

desk drawer the crucial report — which explained the risk of depending on one single person, even one as remarkably effective as Sidney Weinberg — until after his formal admission to the partnership. Whitehead says knowingly, “Rocking the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket business strategy, the connections between the activities of government entities and those of firms, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

table. Just as negotiation theory could be enriched by principles of maneuver warfare, military doctrine offers officers and soldiers a potentially useful foundation to better understand and manage the negotiation process, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

Management or Investment Strategies. Course Content and Objectives An increasing share of assets globally are subject to a non-traditional (environmental, social, and governance [“ESG”] and impact screens), including over 30% of all... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

with their smartphones before a meeting begins, thinking of it as an efficient way to manage their time," says Maarten Bos, a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with HBS Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products
  • May 24, 2016
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Build a Culture of Health

By: John A. Quelch
Every company, large and small, has an impact on health. It does so in four ways: first, through the healthfulness and safety of the products and services it sells; second, through its attention to employee health and well-being in its work practices and benefits;... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Four Pillars; Public Health Footprint; Culture Of Health Plan Of Action; Change; Education; Health; Human Resources; Knowledge; Labor; Leadership; Management; Operations; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Consumer Products Industry; Chemical Industry; Health Industry; United States; Europe
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Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch: Creating A Culture of Health

By: John A. Quelch
All American companies are in the health business whether they like it or not. The private sector directly pays for one-fifth of the whopping 17.5% of GDP spent on healthcare in the United States. Rather than viewing health merely as an insurance expense to be... View Details
Keywords: Building A Culture Of Health; Intersection Of Healthcare And Business; Impact Of Healthcare On Business; Population Health Footprint; Healthcare As An Investment; Change; Education; Health; Human Resources; Labor; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Operations; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Canada; North America; United States
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  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

formulating negotiation strategy, strive to view the landscape as other parties see it. Returning to our hockey example, the NHL general managers had to work on at least three different levels as they raced to sign players. They had to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • 01 Jun 2003
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Books

company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 10 Nov 2008
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How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

constraints." M. J. Fleming cautioned, "If you (as a customer) have influence, you can lead in a horrible direction We should all be very careful of what we wish." To avoid these predicaments, Neil Jackson recommended, "Before we encourage too much,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 Mar 2022
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Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Before applying to HBS, I was working at NextEra Energy, which is a large renewable energy company. I started on the renewable development team after I graduated from UNC. As part of... View Details