Global Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
News

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

information and forces companies to be more open, will help. Still, Saeki knows he has his work cut out for him. “Nasdaq has been very successful in the United States and is now eyeing global trading,” he notes. “It’s a great View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Jan 2016
News

Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation

building robots and doing things that help the world both locally and globally. “I think what HBS did for me was [that it] began to make me a global thinker and a thinker about large problems and strategies... View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

Case Study: Mind the Gap

The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on IT services in 2018 and the... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

price increases drove an industry uptick as the market shifted from oil to coal. Demand for ships outstripped supply until 1981, when a global recession and the US coal miners' strike led to a collapse in ship-hire rates. By 1983,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

clients on e-commerce, supply chain, delivery, and global postal transformation. Here, he fields your questions about what the emerging race to your front door means for the future of last-mile delivery. Will 3D printing do to the Postal... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid fixed-income assets to maturity, and they rely on deposit insurance and costly equity capital to support... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Guy Kamguia

Guy (HBS’ 15, Villanova’ 11, UMBC’ 08) is a Director of Strategy at TOMRA, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced sorting equipment. He previously worked in private equity, driving value... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Search Fund; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
News

A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity

Richard H. K. Vietor, Baker Foundation Professor, is an expert on how nations compete—and he’s worried about the United States. Vietor focuses on government policies, laws, and other actions that affect competitiveness, defined as the ability of a nation’s companies to... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up

that nobody seems to remember. It is one of the most inspiring and influential books that I’ve ever read.” Excerpt “Language can affect every aspect of global organizational life. A lingua franca is the closest we have to the ‘tongues of... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store energy from any source (i.e.... View Details

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

with the opening of the economy in the 1990s. Two things happened. All these global companies came back, which helped the advertising industry. And the economy grew, which meant the middle class grew rapidly. The Indian middle class is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

long-term? What are the opportunities and challenges associated with geographic, target market, product line, and brand extensions? How can brand portfolio strategy and brand architecture increase the value of a firm’s brands? What's the... View Details

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Gallery - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details

26 Mar 2018
News

Funding Climate Change Solutions

In this video, Ousseynou Nakoulima (MBA 2009), director of the Green Climate Fund, discusses why his organization employs a holistic strategy to its work in developing countries. “The Green Climate Fund is a fund that has been set up by... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Changing Nature of Research

School’s Bureau of Business Research—comprised a comparative examination of the costs of operating a retail shoe business. The resulting report helped companies devise strategies to manage inventories, increase profits, and cut waste.... View Details

August 2010 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Sam Palmisano became CEO of IBM in 2002. He dramatically energized the organization through portfolio changes and a values driven approach to managing the company. View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry; New York (state, US)

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01 Mar 2009
News

Health Care a Top Priority at HBS

The HBS Healthcare Initiative is one of five interdisciplinary areas of interest that is a priority of the School (along with the Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Social Enterprise, and Global initiatives). Its director, Cara Sterling, who... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
News

Out of the Valley

Episode 1: The Camel and the Unicorn Why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing it startup dominance—and what that could mean for the future of innovation. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Episode 2: A Creator in the Era of Disruption Lessons from... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

HBS in China

HBS IN CHINA: The inaugural HBS Executive Education program at the new Harvard Center Shanghai in early January ensured that language was not a barrier to following the presentations. Participants could use headsets for Chinese translation of HBS professor Robert S.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

a sovereign default may affect the economy. 2017 Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy By: Jones, G. Abstract—This study examines the geography of the View Details