General Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2008
HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters of Intent), the new relationship focused on establishing a joint vision and problem-solving process, information sharing, and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in The Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away from home, Harvard View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

Career Coach

Ellen Harris

Extension School, interested in coaching across industries and functions. Clients include: Boston Bruins, Biogen, Novartis, Bain Capital, BCG, McKinsey, Harvard departments as well as graduate programs, MIT, INSEAD Business School, Hult... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise

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John H. McArthur | About

hockey team at Harvard College. Like many Canadians, McArthur was an avid hockey fan, and he regularly attended the Harvard men’s hockey team games. He also took the Crimson players under his wing, inviting them to have lunch with him at the View Details

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

business opportunity is that martial arts is the only sport in Asia with broad appeal and local relevance,” says Cui, noting that the Asian world as a whole (with the possible exceptions of Japan and South Korea) View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

business than working as a doctor,” says Dahod, whose parents moved to the United States to help their four children to acquire an American education. Dahod, arriving in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 20, surpassed their high... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

2012
Chapter

Social Entrepreneurs, Socialization Processes, and Social Change: The Case of Sekem

By: Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair and Julie Battilana

How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Psychology; Social Issues; Organizations; Business and Community Relations

Citation

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) Frank Batten (MBA '52) David J. Dunn (MBA '61) Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Ellen R. Marram (MBA '70) Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Martin V. Marshall (MBA '47, DCS '53), Henry R. Byers Professor of Business... View Details

23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

expectations of profit. The standard usage definition will hark back to the older one: an anchor in a community where a family can live, work, and play. Future generations may wonder why Americans for a brief stint redefined home into an... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

aiming to double the size of the business again. Cantel operated in three major vertical market segments: endoscopy, water purification and filtration, and healthcare disposables, which together accounted for more than 95% of Cantel’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Blog

How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

Development Future: A Hybrid Approach? Through the research team’s ability to pivot, they were able to collaborate with faculty to generate 16 new cases between March 2020 and September 2021—a significant accomplishment at a time when... View Details

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that must be artfully combined in order... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2006
Case

Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil

Citation

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01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

translates to “optimism”—into one of Japan’s most successful businesses and a thriving global enterprise. Through savvy investments, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions, he has expanded the company rapidly and diversified its... View Details

03 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths

the opportunity for feedback from panels of expert judges, to test their ideas in a rigorous and supportive environment. Within the Social Enterprise Track specifically, teams focused on ventures that generate significant social value,... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

or Management Science from Carnegie Mellon University. 2018 Jill J. Avery : Recipient of the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harvard Business School, 2017–2018. Julian De Freitas : Received a Certificate of... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

For the general business practitioner, what are the major takeaways from your observations? How will their businesses be affected, and are there things they should be doing now... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

don’t share a common background or life experience with team members. Such empathy in turn generates trust and activates team members’ sense of self-worth. Each of us in our own way seeks acceptance from others. When we receive it, it not... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

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