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Events | Social Enterprise
and Innovation–Virtual For nonprofit leaders, this live, online Executive Education program explores how to align mission and strategy through performance measurement. Jul 27 2025 27 Jul Executive Education:...
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- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
[PDF]. To start, responding strategically to these changes requires a reconceptualization of what a corporate home is, says Desai. "Managers need to make conscious choices about how to unbundle the activities that have traditionally been centered in a home country...
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by Martha Lagace
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Create standardized templates for medical conditions to improve usability and highlight the information most pertinent to management of a specific condition. Collect structured data , rather than free text, in patient records. Allow easy...
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- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
business leaders made during the pandemic fractured their relationship with employees, we recommend managers take these three steps to rebuild trust and, ultimately, loyalty: 1. Take responsibility. First, companies need to acknowledge...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Executive MBA programs who had worked in a range of organizational settings. Overall, our analyses demonstrate that influences on the decision to speak up include both stable and situation-specific factors, such that conceptualizing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, who leads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “Our paper reveals some very attractive and socially beneficial aspects of the private equity industry,...
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- November 2003 (Revised September 2016)
- Case
Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Daniel Wadhwani
Taught in the elective MBA course entitled The Evolution of Global Business. Examines the development of an international cartel in the oil industry in the 1920s and 1930s. Focuses on the decisions and actions of the leading multinational oil companies—particularly...
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History;
Competition;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Alliances;
Cooperation;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry
Jones, Geoffrey G., and Daniel Wadhwani. "Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935." Harvard Business School Case 804-089, November 2003. (Revised September 2016.)
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
for the multi-stakeholder approach. In 2011, he told shareholders, “My job is not to serve shareholders, but to serve Unilever’s customers and consumers.” He then suspended quarterly earnings reporting, enabling executives to concentrate...
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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
focused Social Enterprise Executive Education programs each year, designed for social enterprise leaders. Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management The...
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- 25 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Standard-Essential Patents
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Esteves Hall | About
century in which we live, the need for well-trained business leaders who can make a difference in the world has never been greater. For several years, Esteves and his colleagues have worked with Harvard Business School faculty on an View Details
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Professionals General Managers Consultants and Investors Develop a powerful, value-based strategy to achieve greater success for your team and organization. Participating in the student discussions and answering cold calls was empowering....
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- 2010
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Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance
By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker
Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead...
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Corporate Governance;
Decisions;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Voting;
Globalized Economies and Regions
Kaja, Ashwin, and Eric Werker. "Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance." World Bank Economic Review 24, no. 2 (2010).
- August 2008
- Case
The Chubb Corporation in China
By: Li Jin, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Aldo Sesia
The Chubb Corporation, headquartered in the U.S., was the holding company for a number of property and casualty insurance companies which operated in 29 countries. In 1979, the Chinese government, as part of its "reform and open" policy invited a delegation of Chubb...
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Insurance;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
Business and Government Relations;
Insurance Industry;
China;
United States
Jin, Li, Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Aldo Sesia. "The Chubb Corporation in China." Harvard Business School Case 209-021, August 2008.
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat
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by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
International Student Committee, she helped increase representation of women and U.S. executives at the committee's annual symposium on management in Switzerland. Graduating magna cum laude in economics with...
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Charlie Hogg
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
concept, there are many challenges and risks in execution for the service organization, government and investors. The VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds (819021) by Vikram Gandhi , Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel...
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
interrupted for long stretches by stagnant sales plateaus, and as the company entered 2024, executives gathered to plot how to grow the brand further. Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation ; Change View Details