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- August 2006 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
Medco Energi Internasional
In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin founded in 1980. The Asian financial crisis of 1999 led to a major restructuring that... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Family Business; Restructuring; Financing and Loans; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Indonesia; Singapore
Villalonga, Belen, Raphael Amit, and Christopher Hartman. "Medco Energi Internasional." Harvard Business School Case 207-021, August 2006. (Revised February 2009.)
- Article
Technology, Identity, and Inertia: Through the Lens of 'The Digital Photography Company'
By: Mary Tripsas
Organizations often experience difficulty when pursuing new technology. Large bodies of research have examined the behavioral, social, and cognitive forces that underlie this phenomenon; however, the role of an organization's identity remains relatively unexplored.... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Perception; Technology Adoption
Tripsas, Mary. "Technology, Identity, and Inertia: Through the Lens of 'The Digital Photography Company'." Organization Science 20, no. 2 (March–April 2009): 441–460.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Allocating Marketing Resources
By: Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Marketing is essential for the organic growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
Gupta, Sunil, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "Allocating Marketing Resources." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-069, February 2008.
- 2008
- Chapter
Allocating Marketing Resources
By: Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Companies spend billions of dollars on marketing every year because it is essential to organic growth. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate resources and to demonstrate that their investments generate... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
Gupta, Sunil, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "Allocating Marketing Resources." In Marketing Mix Decisions: New Perspectives and Practices, edited by Roger A. Kerin and Rob O'Regan. Chicago, IL: American Marketing Association, 2008.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Activity; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI; Stages Of Production; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Competency and Skills; Production
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13447, September 2007.
- June 2010
- Case
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)
By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 110-707, June 2010.
- 20 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, and queer communities. Here, current HBS students share their personal stories through the National Coming Out Day storyboard series organized by the HBS PRIDE Club. We accept everyone in any... View Details
- Web
The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to... View Details
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
previous studies have revealed that spontaneous in-person interactions, including classic “watercooler” conversations, can lead to better cross-departmental sharing of ideas, the increased siloing that comes with remote work may also have... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
nations.” What’s driving income inequality? This income inequality is happening for any number of reasons, he adds. One is mechanical. If corporate taxes are lowered, corporate profits will be greater. Since shares in corporations are... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
assigned to one of 70 16-person networks, some of which were more interconnected—or "clustered," in academic parlance—in terms of who could share information with whom during the game. "In the most-clustered conditions,... View Details
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting
year, HBS Interns play an important part in driving the Emerson Collective mission. Joanna Lichter, Associate Director of Venture Capital, plays a key role in recruiting HBS students to the MBA Summer Associate program. She shared with us... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
from Vanderbilt University and also among three Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholars with the shared conviction to challenge ourselves and work towards a better future. Representing so many different social and cultural backgrounds, we are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
has personally made a significant effort to share his good fortune with the community, creating a $5-million foundation to help inner-city youth with education and job training and establishing scholarships for the children of Polaris... View Details
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
organizations build their own business plan to move medical advances forward. By sharing all this, along with the wisdom we’ve gained, we hope that other organizations will succeed in getting their treatments to those who need it. Set up... View Details
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
Harvard Business School. [Image: RichLegg] Related Reading Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You? How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs What's your best tip for managing a growing company? View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Leemore S. Dafny
U.S. Healthcare Strategy
The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for 17 percent of GDP, and encompasses a diverse set of industries with public, nonprofit, and for-profit buyers and sellers. There are significant concerns about high and rising spending, and... View Details
- 2025
- Article
Emotion Regulation Contagion Drives Reduction in Negative Intergroup Emotions
By: Michael Pinus, Yajun Cao, Eran Halperin, Alin Coman, James J. Gross and Amit Goldenberg
When emotions occur in groups, they sometimes impact group behavior in undesired ways. Reducing group’s emotions with emotion regulation interventions can be helpful, but may also be a challenge, because treating every person in the group is often infeasible. One... View Details
Keywords: Emotion Contagion; Emotion; Emotion Regulation; Groups and Teams; Emotions; Conflict and Resolution
Pinus, Michael, Yajun Cao, Eran Halperin, Alin Coman, James J. Gross, and Amit Goldenberg. "Emotion Regulation Contagion Drives Reduction in Negative Intergroup Emotions." Art. 1387. Nature Communications 16 (2025).