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  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

appeals to a great many managers. What I have found by studying the record is that acquisitions come in several distinct flavors, and that each type presents managers with a different set of challenges. The recommendation here is simple.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • Web

Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Sara L. Fleiss Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the... View Details
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Schwartz Common & Pavilion | About

has provided HBS with philanthropic support to expand its collection of contemporary art. The Schwartz Collection is prominently displayed throughout campus, bringing an artistic energy that helps make the HBS experience truly unique. These gifts inspired the View Details
  • Profile

Ramya Sundar

for the first time here. Being part of the HBS community is like... ...being part of a truly global community. I’ve met some incredible people here at HBS. Even though social interactions have been impacted to a certain extent due to COVID this year, we have View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

like the promised land. A patient doing what she can today While potential therapies for HHT feel more tenable today than ever before, I found I could not sit on the sidelines. I never imagined science and healthcare would be part of my... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

at Urbana-Champaign. “Our study suggests that an increase in wages will decrease theft, but won't fully pay off” With this research, Sandino and Chen contribute to a growing body of knowledge about how wages affect employee behavior and social norms in the workplace.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • 08 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

sure employees were being honest in their beliefs about others’ compensation, the researchers, working with the bank’s HR department, offered monetary rewards for employees who accurately guessed the average salaries of others. They found... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Mind Your Manners

Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) As a newcomer to the Global A-list, some observers say China has a few things to learn about proper comportment in Western social settings. Etiquette is one of them, declares Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012), a quintilingual Hong Kong native who has... View Details
Keywords: etiquette; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

twentieth-century industrial organization structures to twenty-first-century information-based organization structures. Q: In your novel, though Barton had been willing to critique his predecessor for constantly fighting fires, he found... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

Doing so yields a novel outlook. Research has found many variants of the same theme: The experience with the commercial internet depends on where you are located. It manifests in a surprising number of dimensions. For example, the quality... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • March 2024
  • Supplement

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • March 2023 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Majid Al Futaim: Adapting the Shopping Mall to the Digital Era

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2022, as Ahmed Galal Ismail, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Properties and Fatima Zada, digital and omnichannel director at Majid Al Futtaim Shopping Malls, go over the plans to roll out the omnichannel mall offering for the Mall of the Emirates they... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; United Arab Emirates
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  • November 2019 (Revised December 2020)
  • Case

Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry

By: José B. Alvarez, Carla Larangeira, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Miguel Diaz Moreno
Grupo Éxito, a leading South American retailer, faced declining market shares in Colombia in 2019 with the arrival of low-cost competitors and emerging digital trends. Originally founded in Medellín, Éxito had over the course of its seventy-year history evolved from a... View Details
Keywords: Grocery; Market Share; Information Technology; Trends; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Colombia; Latin America
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  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Jon Jachimowicz, Columbia University

  • 24 May 2017
  • News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Washington, DC 1975 Earns BA, Economics and History, Swarthmore College 1977 Earns MBA 1977 Receives Fulbright Scholarship to the Philippines 1979 Founds Research Counsel,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

search, we found nearly 3,000 articles and books had been published on some of the topics you just mentioned. However, there was an apparent discrepancy. There had been this wide, long-standing recognition of Toyota as the premier... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

closer to what’s found in Europe. In the US, it takes a lot of rewiring to make fast EV chargers work on the local grid. So he started fiddling. Soon enough, Aatish came up with a prototype that allowed fast charging without changing over... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

PhDs." As McKinsey adapted to the new needs of the times, Daniel also focused on making sure it remained true to its founding principles, such as always seeking to have a significant impact on the client's performance; promoting uniform... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Turning Point: Listen to the Music

which has been expanded upon and published by Columbia executive Logan Westbrooks. When Roger learned I’d gone to HBS, he asked me to do a study of his leadership and management style. It turned out many of the people who worked at New World View Details
Keywords: music; film; purpose; career