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  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

these processes are unfolding not just in the mainstream business sector but in society writ large and even in politics and civil society," says Khanna. Khanna's book Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • August 2023
  • Teaching Note

Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 313-103. The case is designed to give the students an understanding of the local Chinese entrepreneurial state and how foreign and Chinese firms have worked with it to create China’s richest small city. The major themes are—local state... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; China
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    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • April 2018
    • Case

    Globalizing Japan's Dream Machine: Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
    Recruit Holdings, an advertising media, staffing, and business support conglomerate was founded in 1960 by Hiromasa Ezoe. Recruit was built on the principle that the company should add value to society. To do this, it hired young and talented employees and created a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Crime and Corruption; Transition; Globalization; Japan
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    • Web

    Program for Research in Markets & Organizations - Doctoral

    Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Explore Summer Research at HBS A 10-week program for undergraduates who wish to work closely with Harvard Business School faculty on research projects on topics ranging from View Details
    • 17 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

    Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
    Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
    • August 2022
    • Case

    One Tiger Per Mountain: The He Family Office

    By: Lauren Cohen, Fei Wu and Grace Headinger
    Roy He, founder and majority shareholder of his family construction material production company, was preparing to pass down the family business through its first generational handover to his children. His decision would establish his familial legacy and set a precedent... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Structure; Family Business; Family Ownership; Strategic Planning; Family and Family Relationships; Leadership; Construction Industry; Canton (city, China); Canton (province, China); China
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    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Corporate Misconduct’s Relevance to Society through Everyday Misconduct

    By: Eugene Soltes
    Terms like "corporate misconduct" and "white-collar crime" typically bring to mind major scandals like Enron or Bernie Madoff. This popular perception overlooks another important—and in fact much more typical—type of deviance: "everyday misconduct." Everyday misconduct... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Crime and Corruption; Society
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues

    By: Jody Grewal, George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon
    Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Activism; Activist Investors; Activist Shareholder; Corporate Social Responsibility; Environment; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism
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    • 2015
    • Chapter

    Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation when Information Costs Approach Zero

    By: Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle and Michael Tushman
    Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information processing challenges associated with... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Cost; Innovation and Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 10 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

    surgical robotics to treat lung cancer, the intersection of medicine and technology was a deep interest of his prior to HBS. He is now the Founder and CEO of Alife Health, which uses machine learning to help assess the healthiest embryo... View Details
    • 10 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

    flow of small business credit fell, interest rates rose, fewer businesses expanded, unemployment rose, and wages fell from 2006 to 2010. While the flow of credit recovered... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

    We show that, on average, the tournament incentive plan was associated with improved store sales. We also find that such plans can be more beneficial for geographically distant participants, where the potential for improving alignment is... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum

    By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career
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    • 02 Feb 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

    Keywords: by David H. Autor, William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective

    By: Elizabeth J. Altman and Michael L. Tushman
    Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with environments differently than those pursuing traditional closed strategies. This paper... View Details
    Keywords: Platforms; Open/user Innovation; Ecosystems; Crowdsourcing; Institutional Logics; Strategic Leadership; Top Management Teams; CEO Role; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Strategy; Managerial Roles
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    • 30 Jul 2014
    • Video

    Health Acceleration Challenge launch

    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing, American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Public Sector; Private Sector; Country; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Op-Ed

    Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

    Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is Principal View Details
    Keywords: by Christian Ketels
    • 1999
    • Chapter

    Multinational Cross-Investment between Switzerland and Britain 1914-1945

    By: G. Jones
    This chapter examines multinational cross-investment between Switzerland and Great Britain between 1914 and 1945. While Great Britain and Switzerland were both major home economies for multinationals,few companies from either country were interested in investing in the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; International Relations; Investment; Great Britain; Switzerland
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