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- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
when we think about the future upside, future downside, and future rules and rulemasters, we predict that we have more to gain than to lose by staying in the game. The other is that we predict that we have...
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- May 2010 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City
By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Griffin James
A commercial property company evaluates water risks including the government's ability to remedy, the company's operating exposure and mitigation, and whether to relocate because of water risk. A real estate fund manager assesses investment prospects in Mexico City in...
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Private Equity;
Investment;
Risk Management;
Infrastructure;
Privatization;
Business and Government Relations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Services Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Mexico City
Macomber, John D., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Griffin James. "Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City." Harvard Business School Case 210-085, May 2010. (Revised January 2014.)
- 09 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Insights From Harvard Business School’s Peek Program
students to learn about the HBS community and student experience, and hear about MBA admissions and financial aid. We spoke with Yue Yu, a graduate of Connecticut College and a current master's student at Vanderbilt University, originally...
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- May 2009
- Article
The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad
By: Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Management Practices and Processes;
Managerial Roles
Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio, Boris Groysberg, and Nitin Nohria. "The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009): 74–84.
- 15 Feb 2012
- News
4 Top Myths About Start-up Pay
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
imitate: The core-competency perspective focused attention on the importance of knowledge creation and building learning processes for competitive advantage. 2 But this approach, too, faced limits as companies recognized that their people...
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Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
both Clark and Pfizer. The Clark Foundation had spent 25 years funding research to prevent tropical diseases and now had an opportunity to leverage this experience and see its research applied in affected communities. Indeed, it had funded the research that was...
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- 17 Nov 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller
learn about new cultures, and discover more about myself and what I valued in life. By early 2022 I realized that, while my job at Unilever was incredibly interesting and intellectually stimulating, I saw a...
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- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
corporations, the CEO is selected by a higher authority (the board of directors) acting on behalf of the shareholders, which gives him strong positional power to shape the company's direction, strategically and organizationally. The PSF...
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by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- December 1984
- Case
Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Mill manager Carl Adelman learns that a group of senior managers is soon to visit the Tiger Creek mill to learn more about the success of the newly implemented Expense Tracking System. The System had been installed on two paper machines to give workers real time cost...
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Zuboff, Shoshana. "Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek." Harvard Business School Case 485-057, December 1984.
- 30 Jul 2013
- News
Does it pay to fight corruption?
- 14 Nov 2014
- News
Why asking a contact for help benefits you both
- 02 Jan 2013
- News
Do good ethics make good business?
- Profile
Donna Khalife
What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am most looking forward to spending my days working in a job that doesn't feel like work at all. I think every person can achieve their full potential and maximize their impact on...
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- Research Summary
Background
By: Gerald Zaltman
A major theme underlying most of Gerald Zaltman's research concerns the representation of thought. This includes how managers and customers represent their thinking to others and how they represent ideas and knowledge given to them. This theme finds expression in a...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors
- 06 May 2022
- News